scholarly journals The social legitimacy of the universal basic income from a social justice perspective: a comparative analysis of Germany and Slovenia

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-331
Author(s):  
Katharina Zimmermann ◽  
Urban Boljka ◽  
Tatjana Rakar ◽  
Maša Filipovič Hrast
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Legitimacy ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Welfare Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Almost All

AbstractThe universal basic income (UBI) has found its way into public debates and has prominent advocates across almost all political camps. In many debates, it is presented as a solution for the consequences of a large variety of current societal challenges, such as unemployment, over-education, ecological crises, gender inequality and issues related to digitalization and automatization. While UBI has been discussed broadly from an expert position, we know very little about the population’s perceptions of UBI. Thus, to shed light on the public legitimacy of UBI as a radically different concept of social justice and citizenship, our contribution uses data from large group discussions where participants explicitly refer to the UBI as an option for a future welfare state. By comparing debates in Slovenia and Germany, we unearth that the perspective adopted by the participants towards a UBI is strongly shaped by the welfare institutions of the countries in which they live and the social justice principles embodied in those institutions.

scholarly journals The National Front Against Poverty: The Struggle for Income Redistribution

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Ernesto Campos
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Macroeconomic Policies ◽  
National Front ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Government

<p>This article describes the campaign developed by unions, human rights organisations and other social movements in Argentina at the end of the 1990s in order to push the government to implement measures to eliminate poverty and extreme poverty. It also refers to the results of this campaign in the following years, highlighting not only its direct impact but also its indirect consequences in the medium term, in particular on the public debates related to the social policies implemented by the new centre–left government since 2003. This campaign, popularly known as FRENAPO (National Front Against Poverty), was organised in the context of the implementation of neo-liberal macroeconomic policies in Argentina, which led the country to the biggest crisis in its history at the end of 2001. The members of the campaign proposed a package of economic and social measures oriented to unemployed workers (a basic income grant plus a professional education scheme), to the children and to the elderly (a basic income grant for both). The proposal was supported in a referendum by more than three million people all over the country during December 2001, but it was not considered by the Parliament. Although the alliance that supported FRENAPO eventually crumbled, the campaign was successful in its objective of influencing the public debates on how to respond to poverty and extreme poverty. Several measures implemented by the new centre–left government since 2003 were inspired by those debates, particularly those aimed at guaranteeing an income for children and the elderly. This article analyses the context of the campaign, identifies its concrete goals, origins and members, and explains how FRENAPO built power in order to achieve those objectives. Finally, it addresses the main consequences of FRENAPO, both in the short and long term, and highlights its lessons for future campaigns.</p>

‘Everything Belongs to God’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Rech
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wealth Redistribution ◽  
Social Teachings

This chapter examines and contextualizes Sayyid Qutb’s doctrine of property and social justice, which he articulated at a time of deep social conflicts in Egypt. The chapter describes how Qutb, along with other writers concerned with economic inequality in the 1920s–40s such as Hasan al-Banna (1906–1949) and Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri (1895–1971), conceptualised private ownership as a form of power that must be limited by religious obligations and subordinated to the public good. The chapter further shows that Qutb made this notion of restrained property central to a broader theory of social justice and wealth redistribution by combining the social teachings of the Qur’an with the modern ideal of the centralized interventionist state. Arguably this endeavour to revitalise the Quranic roots of Islamic charity and simultaneously appropriate the discourse of modern statehood made Qutb’s position oscillate between legalism and anti-legalism.

scholarly journals Politics of citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic: what can educators do?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeela Arshad-Ayaz ◽  
M. Ayaz Naseem
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fault Lines

AbstractAs a once in a 100 years emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in repercussions for the economy, the polity, and the social. Also, the ongoing pandemic is as much a teaching moment as it to reflect on the lack of critical citizenship education. The fault lines of the health system have become visible in terms of infection and death rates; the fault lines of the educational system are now apparent in the behavior of the citizens who are flouting the public health guidelines and, in certain cases, actively opposing these guidelines. The main objective of this commentary is to initiate a dialogue on the social contract between the state and the subjects and to see how education and educators can respond to the challenge of the new normal. It is contended that education under the new normal cannot afford to keep educating for unbridled productivity education under the new normal. It must have welfare, human connections, ethical relationships, environmental stewardship, and social justice front and center.

scholarly journals Impact of inaccessible spaces on community participation of people with mobility limitations in Zambia

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Banda-Chalwe ◽  
Jennifer C. Nitz ◽  
Desleigh De Jonge
Keyword(s):  
Nominal Group Technique ◽  
Nominal Group ◽  
Mobility Limitations ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Context Shape ◽  
Relationship Of

Background: The study investigated the perspective of people with mobility limitations (PWML) in Zambia, firstly of their accessibility to public buildings and spaces, and secondly of how their capacity to participate in a preferred lifestyle has been affected.Objectives: Firstly to provide insight into the participation experiences of PWML in the social, cultural, economic, political and civic life areas and the relationship of these with disability in Zambia. Secondly to establish how the Zambian disability context shape the experiences of participation by PWML.Method: A qualitative design was used to gather data from 75 PWML in five of the nine provinces of Zambia. Focus group discussions and personal interviews were used to examine the accessibility of the built environment and how this impacted on the whole family’s participation experiences. The nominal group technique was utilised to rank inaccessible buildings and facilities which posed barriers to opportunities in life areas and how this interfered with the whole family’s lifestyle.Results: Inaccessibility of education institutions, workplaces and spaces have contributed to reduced participation with negative implications for personal, family, social and economic aspects of the lives of participants. Government buildings, service buildings, and transportation were universally identified as most important but least accessible.Conclusion: Zambians with mobility limitations have been disadvantaged in accessing services and facilities provided to the public, depriving them and their dependants of full and equitable life participation because of reduced economic capacity. This study will assist in informing government of the need to improve environmental access to enable equal rights for all citizens.

scholarly journals Zamknięte stolice imperium prawa. Znaczenie jawności postępowań sądowych dla społecznej legitymizacji władzy sądowniczej

Radca Prawny ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 43-71
Author(s):  
Krzysztof J. Kaleta
Keyword(s):  
Legal Order ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Legitimacy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Judicial Proceedings ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Polish Code

Closed capitals of the empire of law. The importance of openness of judicial proceedings for social legitimacy of judicial authority The article focuses on the openness of judicial proceedings, in particular the openness of the trial, considered as an important element of the constitutional right to a trial, the requirement of procedural fairness and the condition for maintaining the social legitimacy of the judiciary. The immediate context for the considerations is determined by the changes introduced by the Act of May 28, 2021 amending the Act – the Polish Code of Civil Procedure and certain other acts, making it possible to limit the openness of court proceedings in relation to the occurrence of an epidemiological emergency. The author draws the attention to transformations in the constitutional position and ways of perceiving the legitimacy of courts in modern constitutional democracies. The increasing role of courts in settling major political disputes, resolving social conflicts, controlling governmental authorities and enabling citizens to hold representatives of the authorities accountable for their decisions renders participation in judicial proceedings one of the fundamental democratic activities nowadays. The author also indicates that the trial (as a fundamental form of communication between judges and citizens and a special phase of proceedings allowing the court to deeply examine the facts of the case and to learn the prevailing understanding among citizens of the values and principles on which the legal order is based) is a key measure to achieve the principles of procedural justice during the course of specific proceedings and to establish trust in the third power before the public. Openness of judicial proceedings, especially the trial, is a condition for the courts to maintain a reflexive attitude in the process of ruling and thus to deepen the social legitimacy of the judiciary based on trust.

scholarly journals INDUSTRIALISASI BERBASIS SYARIAH BAGI MASYARAKAT PERKOTAAN (STUDI PERUSAHAAN AIR KHAIRA DI YOGYAKARTA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tjahyo Adji Prakoso
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Water Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reflexive Modernity ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Industrial Company

<p><em>Urban communities, have needs that can be said to be all-round, such as clothing, food and shelter needs, including water needs, almost all the needs of living things are inseparable from water, including for urban communities. On the other hand, this is an opportunity for industrialization commodities, such as drinking water industry, this research is focused on the company drinking water industry in Yogyakarta, the KHAIRA company which has the concept of sharia-based industrialization which is realized in the vision of "Sustainability growing companies to serve the deen of Allah", this research examines theoretically and practically between company visions with the response of the social reality of the surrounding community and examine the idea of sharia-based industrialization, which is an urban economy that leads to industrialization. This research method uses qualitative methods with type of natural observation by conducting comprehensive observations on a particular setting without the slightest change, by conducting interviews. The theoretical framework used is the reflexive modernity theory of Ulrich Beck. The results of this study are that the public does not know that KHAIRA is a Sharia-based industrial company and the company itself does not yet have a community service program.</em><em></em></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><strong> <em>Khaira, Sharia, Social society.</em></strong><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Masyarakat perkotaan, memiliki kebutuhan yang bisa dikatakan serba ada, seperti kebutuhan sandang, pangan dan papan, termasuk kebutuhan air, hampir semua kebutuhan makhluk hidup tidak terlepas dari air, termasuk bagi masyarakat perkotaan. Disisi lain, hal ini menjadi peluang komoditas industrialisasi, seperti industri air minum. Penelitian ini terfokus kepada industri air minum perusahaan di Yogyakarta, yaitu perusahaan KHAIRA yang memilki konsep industrialisasi berbasis syariah yang diwujudkan dalam visi “<em>Sustainability growing companies to serve the deen of Allah</em>”. Peneltian ini menguji secara teoritis dan praktis antara visi perusahaan dengan respon realita sosial masyarakat sekitar dan mengkaji gagasan industrialisasi berbasis syariah sebagai urban ekonomi yang menuju industrialisasi. Metode penelitian ini dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan jenis pengamatan alami (<em>Natural Observation</em>) yang dilakukan dengan observasi menyeluruh pada sebuah latar tertentu tanpa mengubahnya, dengan tujuan mengamati dan memahami perilaku manusia atau selain manusia dalam situasi tertentu, salah satunya dengan melakukan wawancara. Kerangka Teori yang digunakan ialah teori modernitas refleksif dari Ulrich Beck  dan teori Islam, yakni Kaidah Fikih. Adapun Hasil Penelitian ini yakni bahwa masyarakat tidak mengetahui bahwa KHAIRA adalah perusahaan Industri yang berbasis Syariah dan bagi perusahaan sendiri belum mempunyai program pelayanan masyarakat.</p><p> </p><strong>Kata kunci : Khaira, Sosial Masyarakat, Syariah.</strong>

Digital Innovation in the Public Sector: The Role of Embeddedness in Socio-Technical Transitions

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 1950059
Author(s):  
Lakshminarayana Kompella
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Methodology

Organizations have diverse options to improve their performance. With the advances in ICT, several organizations attempt a technology-based solution by digitizing and automation. Indeed, to begin with, it is appropriate, but there are societal challenges. The theories available in the literature explain the reasons for certain societal challenges and actions, but there is also a constant expansion of the theories. This paper adds to the expansion by considering ICT innovations such as digitalization. The social, political, cultural, and economic entities in which organizations operate influence and get influenced by organizational responses. There are connections between organizations and entities; we can refer to these as embeddedness. The purpose of this paper is in identifying a framework and the types of embeddedness. The phenomenon, organizational embeddedness, requires observing it in its setting and is performed using a case study methodology. E-Governance interacts with various entities and provides diverse analytic and heuristic views; hence the author uses E-Governance cases from India. The developed framework assists organizations in providing inputs towards improving their internal complements. In doing so, organizations can not only better respond to societal challenges but also enable other entities in the environment to coevolve.

Social work, participation, and poverty

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrien Boone ◽  
Griet Roets ◽  
Rudi Roose
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Work Participation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nancy Fraser ◽  
Shed Light

Summary Although participatory social work approaches have been considered as a fruitful strategy, critical questions are raised in relation to the social justice aspirations of participatory social work with people in poverty. Inspired by the work of Nancy Fraser, we provide an in-depth insight in the complexities of supporting participatory parity in ‘Associations where People in Poverty Raise their Voice’. Combining semi-structured interviews and focus groups with practitioners in these organisations, we shed light on the complexities of the ‘how’, the ‘who’, and the ‘what’ of social justice that arise in such participatory practice. Findings Our findings suggest that even in practices that situate the principle of participatory parity at the heart of their fight for social justice, power asymmetries and social inequalities require attention. Exclusionary mechanisms become apparent in how practitioners try to support participatory parity of people in poverty in the different components in the organisation. When practitioners try to overcome these exclusionary effects, a sheer complexity and inescapable power struggles become visible. Moreover, the ambiguity of how practitioners attempt to empower people in poverty and enhance structural change leads to tensions between affirmative and transformative strategies in the fight against poverty. Applications Practitioners should be aware that they will never be able to resolve or escape inherent complexities in their attempts to work on a par with people in poverty. Nevertheless, it remains valuable to make continuous efforts to inform the public debate about the socially unjust nature of poverty and social inequality in our societies.

scholarly journals The Diverging Presence of Youth in Public Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of Youth-Related Debates Across Countries and Issue Fields

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 574-590
Author(s):  
Christian Lahusen ◽  
Johannes Kiess
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Criminal Matters

Youth is a recurrent topic of public debates, particularly because youth features in almost all issue fields discussed in mass media, ranging from educational and cultural to criminal matters. However, previous research has highlighted that youth is not necessarily actively involved in raising its own voice within the public sphere, which gives cause for concerns about the representation of youth in public discourses and thus in democratic opinion formation. This article wishes to critically assess the proposition that young people are objects of public discourses rather than active participants. For this purpose, it will analyze public statements reported in newspapers of nine countries (Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom). The analysis makes conceptual use of claims-making analysis and tries to identify contextual factors that determine the extent to which youth actors actively participate in public discourses. In particular, we wish to assess whether discursive inclusion or exclusion of youth is patterned along countries and/or policy fields. Our findings show that policy fields are the most important contextual factors. Moreover, considering claims and actors, public debates about youth are rather similar between the nine countries. This indicates that public debates about youth are patterned by a similar, cross-national differentiation along policy domains.

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