Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.