The Role of the State in the Pre–World War II Period

2011 ◽  
pp. 39-71
Author(s):  
Vito Tanzi
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Pre World War Ii

scholarly journals Samfundets trosbekendelse

Politik ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ove Korsgaard
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
The Core ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Post War ◽  
Political Turn ◽  
Liberal Position

After World War II, there was broad consensus that schools in Denmark should educate for democracy. But there was no consensus on the role of the state: Should the state ensure that everyone receives a democratic education? Or should the state ensure pluralism, and remain neutral in relation to different life philosophies? Or must both the state and citizens develop a knowledgeable stance in relation to democracy’s fundamental dilemmas? It was without doubt the liberal position that became most influential in post-war Danish educational policy. The core of this strategy was that in a democracy the state should adopt a neutral stance towards the various philosophies of life. However, with the values-political turn of recent years the liberal position is now in retreat. This new trend became clear in 2000, with the then Minister of Education Margrethe Vestager’s manifesto Values in the Real World, in which she stressed that „Now more than ever we need to put in words just what attitudes and values we hold in common“. And the present government has focused on the same issue since 2001, and has commissioned among other things a literary canon, a cultural canon and a democracy canon. The activist values policies of recent years have once again given rise to a number of questions concerning democratic upbringing and the role of the state in efforts to strengthen society’s cohesiveness. 

Thailand at the Margins

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Glassman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
The Cold War

Jim Glassman addresses the role of the state in the industrial transformation of what was, before the economic crisis of 1997-98, one of Southeast Asia's fastest growing economies. Analyzing the Cold War period, the period of the economic boom, as well as the economic crisis and its political aftershock, Thailand at the Margins recasts the story of the Thai state's post-World War II development performance by focusing on uneven industrialization and the interaction between internationalization and the transformation of Thai labor.

States and Ethnic Violence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Lange
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
World War ◽  
Rwandan Genocide ◽  
Role Of The State

This chapter examines the role of the state in promoting or deterring ethnic violence. It begins with a discussion of the ways states can promote ethnic violence by using a number of examples, including the Rwandan genocide and statelessness/near-statelessness during World War II. It then considers how both the ethnicization of states and state effectiveness help explain why some states contribute to ethnic violence more than others through a comparative analysis of ethnic violence in two Indian regions: Assam and Kerala. It also explores how states affect whether mobilizational resources can be effectively employed to organize ethnic violence. Finally, it shows how modernity promotes some states that are willing and able to prevent ethnic violence and others that are willing and able to incite it.

scholarly journals Economic policy – state versus market controversy

Equilibrium ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalim Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
World War ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Theoretical Paper

There was a wide ranging debate in the 1950s and 1960s in the developing countries about the role of the state in their economy when these countries attained independence, with developing their economies and eradicating poverty and backwardness being seen as their key priority.  In the post-World War II period, the all-pervasive ‘laissez-faire’ model of development was rejected, because during the pre-war period such policies had failed to resolve the economic crisis. Therefore, Keynesian interventionist economic policies were adopted in most of those countries. This is a theoretical paper, which is based on a review of published papers in the field of economic policies, especially about the debate on the role of the state and market.  In this study, a wide range of data sources are presented, which includes statistics generated by a number of organisations that are not agencies of a particular government. This is useful since data are compiled by a wide range of organisation such as IMF, World Bank and WTO. Secondary data would help our study to answer the research questions. There seems to be greater potential for examining statistical data produced by various organisations that are relatively independent of the national government.

The Mother Who Birthed the Florida Park Service

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
David J. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Pre World War Ii

As the most powerful woman in pre–World War II Florida, May Mann Jennings was instrumental in the development of the Florida Park Service and its predecessor, Florida Forestry Service, as well as bringing the Civilian Conservation Service into the state for park work.

Containing Voices in the Wilderness: Censorship and Religious Dissent in the Japanese Countryside

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-421
Author(s):  
Emily Anderson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Religious Dissent ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pre World War Ii

This article considers the relationship between stringent and arbitrary censorship policies and “religious freedom,” something “guaranteed” with significant qualifications by the Meiji Constitution, in pre-World War II Japan. In particular, this article explores the role of censorship in shaping the contours of acceptable religious practice by focusing on a regional Christian news monthly, the “Gunma Christian World Monthly.” Edited by Kashiwagi Gien, a rural Congregational minister, this monthly introduced a diverse range of ideas from socialism to critiques of militarism and imperialism. Kashiwagi's espousal of these ideas also made him the focus of local censors. By focusing on two occasions when Kashiwagi's spirited critiques of the state attracted the attention of local authorities, this article examines the complex and contingent process by which the state and its regional agents used legal means to manage the contours of acceptable belief in pre-World War II Japan. The relationship between Kashiwagi and the local police and prosecutors who attempted to manage and regulate “acceptable” content and, by extension, acceptable religious opinion, offers an important and hitherto unexamined site to consider the question of how religious freedom was interpreted by the state, local officials, and religionists.

scholarly journals The Role of Libraries, Archives and Museums (LAM) in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage: the Example of the Polish Catholic Centre in Martin Coronado in Argentina

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Barbara Zybert
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
The State ◽  
World War

Objective – activities aiming at the preservation of the Polish cultural heritage undertaken by the library, archive, and museum functioning at the Polish Catholic Centre (Polski Ośrodek Katolicki-POK) in Martin Coronado in Argentina are presented. Particular attention is paid to the legacy of soldiers fighting on the fronts of World War II, mainly associated with the 2nd Polish Corps commanded by General Władysław Anders. Methods – A method of analysis and literary criticism was used. Results and conclusions – The Polish Catholic Centre in Martin Coronado and its libraries, archive, and museum are important in commemorating the contribution of Polish soldiers to the victory of World War II. They also play an important role in relation to the Polish community, affecting the state of national and social consciousness, shaping and maintaining its national identity, as well as strengthening patriotic attitudes.

Alsatian Catholics Against the State, 1918–25

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jena M. Gaines
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The People ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Republic

The years that followed the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France after World War I proved that reunion was a complicated and painful process. The potential for misunderstanding, if not outright conflict, between Alsatians and French policy-makers was from the outset grossly underestimated by virtually everyone on both sides. Alsatians saw no incompatibility between the wish to preserve their regional cultural personality, or particularism, and their loyalty to France. The believers in the ‘Republic one and indivisible’, however, did. The preservation of Alsatian particularism, especially in language and religion, was regarded by French politicians as the perpetuation of German cultural and political influence. The end of the armistice celebrations and the introduction of a transitional administration brought the realisation that the cultural gulf between France and Alsace, widened by years of separation following the Treaty of Frankfurt of 1871, could not be legislated away. With few exceptions, the people on both sides of the Rhine who welcomed the end of the annexation had assumed that the commitment to reunion was sufficient to make it a success.1 This belief was nowhere more rapidly disproven than in the matter of religion. The enforcement of French legislation ending the role of the state in overseeing the congregations became the flash-point between the Catholic majority in Alsace and the Third Republic.

scholarly journals covid-19 and the Role of the State: Evidence from Keren, Eritrea

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-141
Author(s):  
Biyan Ghebreyesus Okubaghergis
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Pandemic Response ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
National Resource

Abstract The covid-19 pandemic has caused the worst socio-economic disruption since World War ii. From the integral state perspective, this article explores the Eritrean government’s pandemic response and the ramifications for its people. The study seeks to understand the measures taken by the government to contain the virus and their immediate impact on the residents of the city of Keren, using individual stories, in-depth interviews, participant observations, media sources, and archival resources gathered from local and national resource centres in Eritrea between March and July 2020. According to the findings, the state’s main measures were restricting large gathering, maintaining complete or partial lockdowns, quarantining persons who might be infected, closing non-essential shops and stores, setting up hotline services, and running massive media campaigns. However, these measures hurt the livelihoods of the majority of residents, leaving many households without any way to earn a living.

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