The Initiative for a New Social-Market Economy and the Transformation of the German Welfare Regime after Unification

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kinderman
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
The Past ◽  
Business Officials ◽  
Social Market ◽  
Public Relations Campaign

This chapter focuses on how business interests and neoliberal ideas have come together in Germany during the past two decades. It is based on a detailed analysis of the INSM, a large-scale campaign founded and funded by the metal industry employers’ association Gesamtmetall in 2000 to shape public opinion. Since its origination, the INSM has launched a systematic attack on the German welfare state. As part of a business-led public relations campaign, the purpose of the INSM is to propagate market-oriented reforms and influence public opinion and policymaking rather than to develop new economic ideas. Nevertheless, a group of economists associated with the Mont Pèlerin Society have actively supported and campaigned for the INSM. The INSM exposes a serious problem with the academic literature that characterizes Germany as an exemplar of “nonliberal” capitalism: the positions of leading German business officials and economists are fundamentally and unmistakably liberal.

The Main Priorities for the HR Management Stages in Germany. Agency of Labor (Arbeitsamt) As an Operator

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Кудайберген ◽  
Pirimkul Kudaybergen
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Management ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Critical Conditions ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hr Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Angela Merkel ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Social Market

The article highlights the social priorities, personnel management principles in Germany, which are based on the famous German «Ordnung» (step by step), the postulate of individualism. It is noted that the «Iron Chancellor» Bismarck developed the principles of social protection of the German personnel. These principles formed the basis of the German social market economy: providing working conditions, promotion of awareness and independence, encouraging responsibility. The article presents basic palette of social and fi nancial assistance to needy staff , which are provided through centers of employment and work of the Agency. The peculiarities of personnel management are indicating in the conditions of uncontrolled aggressive invasion of refugees in Germany. Gateways are opened for them «without limit» Chancellor Angela Merkel, acting only in the interests of the USA. This led to mass protests, similar to a civil war throughout the country. This article argues that in these circumstances, Germany needs a new Bismarck, who would once again strengthened Germany, with the support of Russia, as it was in the past. Russia could again become a partner of Germany, especially in the process of human resource management in the prevailing critical conditions, based on its invaluable experience in multinational and multi-confessional Russia.

scholarly journals An Era of Appropriate Technology: Evolutions, Oversights and Opportunities

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Lissenden ◽  
Siri Maley ◽  
Khanjan Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Strategy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Project Lifecycle

As we develop practical, innovative and sustainable technology solutions for resource-constrained settings, what can we learn from the Appropriate Technology (AT) movement? Based on a review of academic literature over the past 35 years, this article identifies, and chronologically maps, the defining tenets and metrics of success advocated by scholars. The literature has gradually evolved from general musings into concrete lessons learned, while the definitions of “success” have transitioned from laboratory success into practical application and long-term usefulness. Nonetheless, juxtaposing this scholastic history with actual projects reveals three major gaps in AT philosophy related to a lack of 1) bilateral knowledge exchange, 2) emphasis on venture scalability, and 3) integration of implementation strategy through the project lifecycle. This article argues that rethinking and repositioning AT with a human-centric narrative emphasizing sustainability and scalability is imperative in order to revitalize and accelerate the AT movement and to achieve the large-scale impact it was expected to deliver.

scholarly journals Post-war Civil War Propaganda Techniques and Media Spins in Nigeria and Journalism Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Bolu John Folayan ◽  
Olumide Samuel Ogunjobi ◽  
Prosper Zannu ◽  
Taiwo Ajibolu Balofin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Additional Challenge ◽  
Nigerian Civil War ◽  
War Propaganda ◽  
Post War

In public relations and political communication, a spin is a form of propaganda achieved through knowingly presenting a biased interpretation of an event or issues. It is also the act of presenting narratives to influence public opinion about events, people or and ideas. In war time, various forms of spins are employed by antagonists to wear out the opponents and push their brigades to victory. During the Nigerian civil war, quite a number of these spins were dominant – for example GOWON (Go On With One Nigeria); “On Aburi We Stand”, “O Le Ku Ija Ore”. Post-war years presented different spins and fifty years after the war, different spins continue to push emerging narratives (e.g. “marginalization”, “restructuring”). This paper investigates and analyzes the different propaganda techniques and spins in the narratives of the Nigerian civil in the past five years through a content analysis of three national newspapers: The Nigerian Tribune, Daily Trust and Sun Newspapers. Findings confirm that propaganda and spins are not limited to war time, but are actively deployed in peace time. This development places additional challenge on journalists to uphold the canons of balance, truth and fairness in reporting sensitive national issues. The authors extend postulations that propaganda techniques, generally considered to be limited to war situations, are increasingly being used in post-war situations. Specifically, they highlight that journalists are becoming more susceptible to propaganda spins and this could affect the level of their compliance to the ethics of journalism.

The reform of constitutional law in Hungary after the transition

Legal Studies ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-196
Author(s):  
Gábor Halmai
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
World War ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Market ◽  
Second World ◽  
State Form

In Hungary, a comprehensive amendment to the 1949 Constitution took effect on 23 October 1989. According to the new preamble of the considerably amended Constitution, the revision was needed ‘in order to promote the peaceful political transition into the rule of law realizing the multiparty system, parliamentary democracy and social market economy’. This amendment changed not only the state organisation, but also the regulation of human rights.The intention of distancing itself from the historical period of the past 40 years is expressed in para 1 of the amended Constitution, which proclaims that Hungary is a republic. With this, Hungarian constitution-making went back to a number of legal institutions incorporated in Act I of 1946 which is on the state form of Hungary adopted by the National Assembly, formed after the frst free elections after the Second World War.

scholarly journals The Coronavirus Crisis versus Social and Market Economy of Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-70
Author(s):  
Vladislav Belov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Significant Negative Impact ◽  
Social Market ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Economic Nature ◽  
External Borrowing ◽  
The Impact

The coronavirus crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant negative impact on all aspects of the German social market economy. For the first time in history, the crisis was caused by factors of a non-economic nature. They manifested themselves in all economies of the world, including Europe. Since March 2020, the federal and state executive authorities of Germany, along with the introduction of restrictive measures for the population and business, have adopted several large-scale economic and political programmes aimed at preventing bankruptcies of economic entities, preserving jobs and social stability in the country. Along with short-term instruments designed to stop the decline in GDP and give impetus to its growth, the German state pursued an active and coordinated with Brussels structural policy aimed at ensuring an energy and digital transition to a climate-neutral economy, including the overcoming the deficits and problems revealed by the pandemic in the country's economy. To this end, Berlin abandoned the budget surplus policy and switched to large-scale external borrowing to finance programmes to bring economy out of the crisis. The author analyzes the results of the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the economic space of Germany, including aspects of its stress resistance and competitiveness, explores the effectiveness of state policy to counter crisis and assesses the prospects for the development of Russia's leading foreign economic partner in the west of the Eurasian continent.

Proving God's Existence? A Reassessment of al-Rāzī’s Arguments for the Existence of the Creator

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah C. Erlwein
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
Thematic Context

Arguments for God's existence, it has often been argued in the secondary academic literature, form an essential part of classical Islamic theology (ʿilm al-kalām) and philosophy (falsafa). In the past decades, numerous scholars have dealt with what could be termed the Islamic discourse on arguments for God's existence, and have commonly analysed these arguments making recourse to Immanuel Kant's (1724–1804) categorisation of such arguments as cosmological, teleological, or ontological. The great Ashʿarī theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) is, unsurprisingly, seen as no exception to this: he, too, has been regarded as a participant in the aforementioned discourse, and in several of his major kalām works he introduces four methods to ‘prove the existence of the creator’. In this article, I will, however, argue that al-Rāzī had no concern for proving God's existence; the arguments in his kalām works, which, in the secondary academic literature, have been described as seeking to prove that God exists, it shall be suggested, serve a different purpose. This shall become clear when al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Qur'an, al-Tafsīr al-kabīr, is taken into account. Previous studies of al-Rāzī’s (alleged) arguments for God's existence have only focused on his kalām works proper, however, in the Tafsīr al-Rāzī not only presents the very same four kalām methods to ‘prove the existence of the creator’ and stresses that they originate in Qur'anic forms of argumentation, but he also places them in a thematic context which, in his theological works, is oftentimes lacking. This article therefore clarifies the objective underlying al-Rāzī’s arguments for the existence of the creator and explains their significance in his broader theological thought.

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