Making Sense of the Complexity of Business-Government Relations in the EU

2021 ◽  
pp. 172-188
Author(s):  
David Coen ◽  
Alexander Katsaitis ◽  
Matia Vannoni
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Policy Cycles ◽  
Structure And Functions ◽  
The Eu

In this chapter, we develop a political theory of the firm that draws from a micro-, meso-, and macro-perspective. In doing so, we develop a theory that brings together a set of pieces that form a sum greater than its parts. Specifically, it looks at how the structure and functions of institutions affect how the firm behaves in the political arena. It goes on to look at the variation in business behaviour across policy areas and stages of the policy cycles and it concludes with the focus on the internal features of the company. The chapter concludes by providing some recommendations for scholars of business and politics, policy-makers, and lobbyists.

scholarly journals Bruno Leoni’s Concept of Law and Representation in The Cyber Age: A Cybernetic Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-65
Author(s):  
Mario De Benedetti
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Information Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Cybernetic Model ◽  
Norbert Wiener ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Concept Of Law

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to contextualize Bruno Leoni’s political theory within the Digital Information Society, a new dimension of public participation in the political arena and a sign of the democratic transition through new forms of involvement by public opinion. In particular, the evolution of the Information Society will be briefly examined starting from the studies of Fritz Machlup, considered its progenitor, to pass to the examination of the Leonian concept of law and politics in the technological society, with reference to Norbert Wiener and Karl Deutsch’s cybernetic theory. This paper will attempt to describe the evolutive process of political participation in democratic society by reinterpreting the thought of Bruno Leoni concerning Democracy, the State and the homo telematicus in the digital social order.

scholarly journals La batalla por la democracia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERNESTO GANUZA ◽  
Heloise Nez ◽  
Ernesto Morales
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Political Subject ◽  
Set Up

The emergence of new participatory mechanisms, such as participatory budgeting, in towns and cities in recent years, has given rise to a conflict between the old protagonists of local participation and the new citizens invited to participate. These mechanisms offer a logic of collective action different to what has been the usual fare in the cities – one that is based on proposal rather than demand. As a result, it requires urban social movements to transform their own dynamics in order to make room for a new political subject (the citizenry and the non-organised participant) and to act upon a stage where deliberative dynamics now apply. The present article aims to analyse this conflict in three different cities that set up participatory budgeting at different times: Porto Alegre, Cordova and Paris. The associations in the three cities took up a position against the new participatory mechanism and demanded a bigger role in the political arena. Through a piece of ethnographic research, we shall see that the responses of the agents involved (politicians, associations and citizens) in the three cities share some arguments, although the conflict was resolved differently in each of them. The article concludes with reflections on the consequences this conflict could have for contemporary political theory, especially with respect to the role of associations in the processes of democratisation and the setting forth of a new way of doing politics by means of deliberative procedures.

scholarly journals Well informed Farmers and Consumers are positive about GM Crops in Europe and Africa

Afrika Focus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Gheysen ◽  
J. Maes ◽  
M. Valcke ◽  
E.I.R. Sanou ◽  
S. Speelman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Gm Crops ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Gm Crop ◽  
Crop Cultivation ◽  
Gm Food ◽  
Public Reaction ◽  
The Eu

Genetically modified (GM) crops are cultivated globally on more than 185 million hectares, but the use of GM crops in Europe and Africa is very limited. Politicians are reluctant to allow such crops because they fear negative public reaction. The political hostility in the EU towards GM crops also has a significant impact on how African policy makers form their opinions for accepting GM crops in their own countries. However, studies reveal that specific types of GM food are welcomed by consumers and that few Europeans avoid GM labels when buying food. Similarly, African farmers and consumers are generally positive about GM crops. Policy makers should take these results into account when a decision needs to be made on whether or not to allow GM crop cultivation in their country. KEY WORDS: ACCEPTANCE, AFRICA, CONSUMERS, EUROPE, FARMERS, GM CROPS

“Rolling Up the Sleeves”1 How EU policy towards Serbia and Montenegro acts as the glue that holds the State Union together?

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Papic
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Potential Candidate ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Serbia And Montenegro ◽  
Eu Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Conditionality ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Eu

The most powerful tool of EU foreign policy in dealing with potential candidate countries (and beyond) is that of political conditionality. The successes of this policy, as well as its spectacular failures, have been largely well documented by the political science research community. Far less research, however, goes into explaining the scenarios where the EU goes “beyond conditionality” (Teokarevic 2003) in its dealings with potential candidates for membership in the EU. The goal of this paper is to explain the extremely intensive and pro-active EU involvement in the drafting of the Constitution of Serbia and Montenegro and the subsequent attempts by Brussels to determine the future nature of the union between these neighboring republics. In answering this question the paper looks at the history of EU’s involvement in the region and attempts to provide a theoretical framework that can best provide the explanation for the motivation of EU’s policy makers to utilize such a direct strategy of involvement that goes far “beyond conditionality”. Full text available: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v2i2.170

Military Dependence: the Colonial Legacy in Africa

1974 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chester A. Crocker
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Army Officers ◽  
Major Region

The past five years have seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid to the African military by scholars, journalists, and policy-makers. This trend is the direct result of the orgy of coup d'états, beginning in 1965, which have toppled governments of all political hues in every major region except white-dominated Southern Africa. As this article is written, well over one-third of the O.A.U.'s membership is under military rule, and there is little reason to believe that army officers will lose interest or effectiveness in the political arena.

scholarly journals Well Informed Farmers and Consumers are Positive About Gm Crops in Europe and Africa

Afrika Focus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
G. Gheysen ◽  
J. Maes ◽  
M. Valcke ◽  
E.I.R. Sanou ◽  
S. Speelman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Gm Crops ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Gm Crop ◽  
Crop Cultivation ◽  
Gm Food ◽  
Public Reaction ◽  
The Eu

Genetically modified (GM) crops are cultivated globally on more than 185 million hectares, but the use of GM crops in Europe and Africa is very limited. Politicians are reluctant to allow such crops because they fear negative public reaction. The political hostility in the EU towards GM crops also has a significant impact on how African policy makers form their opinions for accepting GM crops in their own countries. However, studies reveal that specific types of GM food are welcomed by consumers and that few Europeans avoid GM labels when buying food. Similarly, African farmers and consumers are generally positive about GM crops. Policy makers should take these results into account when a decision needs to be made on whether or not to allow GM crop cultivation in their country.

scholarly journals Rising Subnational Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Challenge to Meeting Federal Climate Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-101
Author(s):  
Douglas Charles Macdonald ◽  
Asya Bidordinova ◽  
Avet Khachatryan
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Eu

Policy makers in federated countries and the EU seeking to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions face a challenge when emissions are rising in some subnational jurisdictions. The magnitude of that challenge is influenced by the portion of total emissions represented by those jurisdictions, the rate of change in that portion, and the political power of those jurisdictions. This phenomenon is examined by a comparison of the role of rising-emission jurisdictions in the EU and Canada. We define a “rising-emission jurisdiction” as one in which emissions were higher in 2018 than in 1990, regardless of how its emissions may have risen or fallen between those dates. Those findings show that the role of rising-emission jurisdictions must be added to the factors identified in the literature explaining why between 1990 and 2018 EU emissions have declined by 25% while Canadian emissions have increased by 21%. To better understand this phenomenon and to help policy makers cope with it, more research is needed on its influence in other federated countries.  

scholarly journals Shifting Public Values for Forest Management: Making Sense of Wicked Problems

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Shindler ◽  
Lori A. Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Sociopolitical Values

Abstract Wicked problems typify many of the natural resource debates in the United States and certainly describe the management of forestlands in the Pacific Northwest. Wicked problems are interrelated ones of organized complexity that cannot be solved in isolation from one another, but also hinge on differing sociopolitical values that clash in the political arena. Forestry professionals frequently find themselves caught up in the dilemma of making decisions in this era of social change and much scrutiny. This paper examines what shifting social values mean for forest management and research by (1) providing a conceptual context for forest policy decisions, (2) examining relevant problems facing management and research institutions, and (3) characterizing the implication for public forest management given the nature of wicked problems. West. J. Appl. For. 14(1):28-34.

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