The sources of continuity and change of Ukraine’s incomplete state

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 417-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhiy Kudelia
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Institutional Void ◽  
State Authority ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Dominant Actor ◽  
Institutional Foundations

This article examines the evolution of the state in Ukraine from an object of elite predation in early 1990s into a dominant actor in relations with non-state actors under Kuchma, an instrument of elite struggles for power and rents under Yushchenko and a return to a centralized state authority under Yanukovych. Despite its different transformations the state in Ukraine has been continuously characterized by the prevalence of informal levers of power and the absence of strong formal institutional foundations. As a result, after twenty years it still lacks the prerequisites of effective governance in a modern state – an impersonal bureaucracy, rule of law and mechanisms of accountability. This institutional void produces Ukraine’s vicious cycling between hybrid types of authoritarianism and democracy leaving the state dysfunctional and incomplete.

The State and Violence

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (Cambridge 2009) offers a theory of the evolution of the modern state and an even more ambitious framework “for interpreting recorded human history.” The book raises fundamental questions about the political structuring of violence, the functions of the rule of law, and the establishment and maintenance of political order. In doing so, it speaks to a range of political scientists from a variety of methodological and subfield perspectives. We have thus invited four prominent political science scholars of violence and politics to comment on the book: Jack Snyder, Caroline Hartzell, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Larry Diamond.

The State and Violence

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (Cambridge 2009) offers a theory of the evolution of the modern state and an even more ambitious framework “for interpreting recorded human history.” The book raises fundamental questions about the political structuring of violence, the functions of the rule of law, and the establishment and maintenance of political order. In doing so, it speaks to a range of political scientists from a variety of methodological and subfield perspectives. We have thus invited four prominent political science scholars of violence and politics to comment on the book: Jack Snyder, Caroline Hartzell, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Larry Diamond.

scholarly journals Arendt and the Modern State: Variations on Hegel in The Origins of Totalitarianism

2004 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy T. Tsao
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Uniform Rule ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Single Body

Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), unlike her later books, is centrally concerned with the nature and fate of the modern state. The book presents a series of political pathologies – antisemitism, imperialism, tribalism, and totalitarianism – that Arendt regards as the result of failures in the state's dual mission to integrate diverse social groups into a single body politic, and to uphold the uniform rule of law for all. Her underlying conception of the state bears a striking, though unacknowledged affinity to that of Hegel. Like Hegel, moreover, she argues that citizens' mutual recognition of one another's human rights, as mediated through state institutions, is an indispensable condition for full human self-consciousness and agency. Her version of this argument is developed first through an excursus on the origins and effects of racism among Europeans living in Africa, and then through an analysis of the unique plight of stateless refugees.

The State and Violence

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Hartzell
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (Cambridge 2009) offers a theory of the evolution of the modern state and an even more ambitious framework “for interpreting recorded human history.” The book raises fundamental questions about the political structuring of violence, the functions of the rule of law, and the establishment and maintenance of political order. In doing so, it speaks to a range of political scientists from a variety of methodological and subfield perspectives. We have thus invited four prominent political science scholars of violence and politics to comment on the book: Jack Snyder, Caroline Hartzell, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Larry Diamond.

scholarly journals Nigerian State and the Crisis of Governance: A Critical Exposition

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401986581
Author(s):  
Dhikru Adewale Yagboyaju ◽  
Adeoye O. Akinola
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Effective Service

Over the decades, there has been a recurrent and sustained argument that the Nigerian state, like its counterparts in Africa and other countries of the developing world, underperforms due to lack of state capacity to deal with the contemporary complexities of governance. This article examines the state of governance in Nigeria and assesses the factors militating against the promotion of public good and effective service delivery in the country. The article draws data from secondary and primary sources, which include the authors’ close observations of events in Nigeria. Governance and political leadership in Nigeria have been driven by self-interest and other primordial considerations, which take priority over that of the public. The state has failed in three major areas: security of lives and properties, promotion of the rule of law, and provision of visionary leadership. In conclusion, the nature and characters of the political leadership explains the Nigerian state incapacity for effective governance.

The State and Violence

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-293
Author(s):  
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (Cambridge 2009) offers a theory of the evolution of the modern state and an even more ambitious framework “for interpreting recorded human history.” The book raises fundamental questions about the political structuring of violence, the functions of the rule of law, and the establishment and maintenance of political order. In doing so, it speaks to a range of political scientists from a variety of methodological and subfield perspectives. We have thus invited four prominent political science scholars of violence and politics to comment on the book: Jack Snyder, Caroline Hartzell, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Larry Diamond.

Reflections

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ruth Hayhoe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Francis Fukuyama

Abstract These reflections were invited by the editors of this special issue to provide a frame for analysing the significance of this set of articles on “Higher education and the state in Greater China.” They are framed around the three elements of modernity identified by Francis Fukuyama in his book The Origins of Political Order – the modern state, the rule of law and accountable government. They also highlight comparative dimensions among the three societies of Greater China.

Robert Paul Wolff, In Defense of Anarchism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Stilz
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Majority Rule ◽  
The State ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Widespread Acceptance ◽  
State Authority ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Philosophical Anarchism

This chapter examines Robert Paul Wolff’s arguments in In Defense of Anarchism about state authority and individual autonomy, and how plausible they are for philosophical anarchism. According to Wolff, the authority of the modern state cannot be justified because it conflicts with the autonomy of the individual. The presumptive clash between state authority and individual autonomy that Wolff highlights remains central to the philosophical anarchist critique of the state, a position that has gained prominence—and widespread acceptance—in contemporary political philosophy. The rest of this chapter comments on Wolff’s views in more detail, including those concerning compliance with the state, a state’s right to rule, unanimous direct democracy, and majority rule. It also discusses Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s assertion that persons must remain free in obeying the state.

scholarly journals Community policing as characteristic of the modern state governed by the rule of law

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Kirill Lavrinovich
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Law

The relevance of the research topic are conditioned by the theoretical and practical significance of issues affecting the theoretical, methodological, sociopolitical and practical aspects of the problem of the interaction between the police and civil society institutions in the state governed by the rule of law. These questions are connected with the need to comprehend modern practice to develop new conceptual provisions and dogmatic decisions that are appropriate to the modern conditions. During historiographical analysis it was revealed that the experience of interaction between the police and civil society institutions in the modern states governed by the rule of law in the implementation of the law enforcement function of the state has not been adequately studied and evaluated. The object, subject and purpose of the study were determined in accordance with the current state of legal science. The object of the study was public relations that arise in the field of ensuring the protection of public order, freedom and security of society, state and individual. Police that carries out law enforcement activities on a professional basis and citizens who are actively involved in the implementation of the law enforcement function in the modern state are the subjects of these public relations. Ideas about the main directions and forms of cooperation between police and citizens in the implementation of the law enforcement function of modern states have formed the subject of research. The aim of the study was theoretical and legal analysis of the concept of community policing, which today is the basis for the interaction between the police and civil society institutions in the implementation of the law enforcement function in many modern states. The research methodology was a combination of general scientific (historical, systemic and functional) and special (formal-legal, historical-legal, sociological, comparative state science) methods. The result of the study was the conclusion that the concept of community policing is based on the activities of authorized police agencies to implement the law enforcement function in a modern state governed by the rule of law. These activities are aimed at implementing a model of social partnership and focused on solving specific problems that arise in society.

A Foucauldian Defense of the State: Blandine Kriegel and the État de Droit

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Michael C. Behrent
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Political Philosopher

This paper examines the career and thought of French political philosopher Blandine Kriegel (b. 1943) from the standpoint of the most striking paradox they present: though she was a student of Michel Foucault, who was famous for his critique of central role that political thinking has traditionally accorded the state, Kriegel has, since the mid-1970s, been one of the foremost champions of the concept of état de droit—the state as the embodiment of the “rule of law”—in French political debates. At a time when post-1968 critics of Marxism and totalitarianism (notably the so-called nouveaux philosophes) were arguing that states were inherently despotic, Kriegel mounted an original defense of the state, which, she argued, had played a central role in establishing legal rights that freed individuals from the “slavery” of civil society. She was able to do this, in part, by drawing on several suggestive elements found in Foucault's work: his concept of biopolitics, the claim that individuals and subjectivity are constituted through power relations, and the insight that war and sovereignty represent alternative ways of conceptualizing power. In this way, she used aspects of Foucault's political thought to arrive at a decidedly non-Foucauldian appreciation of the modern state.

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