Beyond the undertheorized role of organizational power as political power in theories of the state

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harland Prechel
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Organizational Power

The Doctrinal Basis of The Rights of Company Shareholders

1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 554-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Grantham
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Corporate Form ◽  
Moral Force ◽  
The Law ◽  
Normative Implications

THE concept of ownership is a complex, powerful and controversial idea. In law it explains, justifies and gives moral force to a host of rights and duties as well as serving to legitimate the allocation of wealth and privilege. The influence of this idea is, furthermore, everywhere embodied in the law. In company law, legal and economic conceptions have both rested on and have been shaped by the normative implications of ownership. Historically, ownership was the principal explanation and justification for the central role of shareholders in corporate affairs. As owners, shareholders were entitled to control the management of the company and to the exclusive benefit of the company's activities. Ownership also served to legitimate the corporate form itself. So long as it was owned by individuals the economic and political power of the company was both benign and a bulwark against the intrusion of the state.

The Politics of Local Models, Social Transformation and State Power Struggles in the People's Republic of China: Tachai and Teng Hsiao-p'ing

1978 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 873-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Political Power ◽  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Models ◽  
Independent Basis ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
National Power

What was the role of Tachai, Mao Tse-tung's model village meant for emulation in agriculture, in the 1975–76 struggle towards national power of the Chiang Ch'ing group? In getting the facts straight on this matter, I will throw light on some facets of local and national political power in China. I will especially highlight the question of the extent to which ruling groups at the state centre have a somewhat independent basis for more or less autonomous action.

scholarly journals The Subject of Education: Disruptive Dilemma in Abraham Kuyper and Ellen White Thought

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Halim Wiryadinata ◽  
Christar Arstilo Rumbay
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
The Subject

Abstract. The nature of education receives attention and public discussion as it is one dominant core of the cosmological system. However, it echoes to other public squares such as; the state, political power, culture, and religion, contains multi-layered of identity, and against a post-modernism era, which is a very disruptive period that could impact its nature. Abraham Kuyper is known as a public theologian, who offers wide works of education in Europe-Reformed tradition, while Ellen White, a central figure in American-Adventist, even worldwide, contributes unique perspectives. This article conducts qualitative research, attempts to interpret the works of Kuyper and White and reconstructs their idea in order to answer the intention of this research. Eventually, this essay shares the agreement between them concerning God's glorification and adoration as the intention of education, further, demonstrating the diversity where White maintains the holistic approach of education in which Kuyper against it. Moreover, this research attempts to uncover how both figures define the role of state over education.

scholarly journals Faith and Patriotism: Some Snapshots and Reflections on 1914 and Beyond

ANVIL ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Rt Revd Christopher Hill
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
The State ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article offers some fascinating ‘snapshots’ into theological activity and awareness between British and German theologians just prior to WW1, between the wars and post WW2. He helpfully surveys the differences between German and English understandings of the Church-Struggle or Kirchenkampf and some of its struggles which we might now name as too much identification with the prevailing culture and not enough critical distance. He considers how public opinion was divided in the 1930s the role of significant Anglican leaders in and post WW2. He concludes with reflections on Luther's two ‘regiments’, the essential spiritual domain of the Church and the temporal, political power of the State and with Harnack's understanding of the church with thoughts on implications for how we relate to church and state today.

scholarly journals LUCHA CAMPESINA, AUTONOMÍA E INSTITUCIONALIZACIÓN: EL CASO DE LA CIOAC EN ACALA, CHIAPAS

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
Antonia Berenice Villafuerte Torrez
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Agricultural Workers ◽  
Crisis Of Representation

En este artículo se analiza la participación de la Central Independiente de Obreros Agrícolas y Campesinos (CIOAC) en Chiapas, en el marco de la lucha campesina nacional. Resalto su trabajo organizativo y sindical en la entidad. Detallo el papel de la organización en el contexto de la estrategia salinista y reflexiono sobre la pérdida de la capacidad autonómica y de independencia de la CIOAC frente al poder estatal y político. Posteriormente, y tomando como caso de estudio la CIOAC en Acala, Chiapas, describo las estrategias de institucionalización de la organización y planteo la presencia de una crisis de representación de dicha central.   PEASANT STRUGGLE, AUTONOMY AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION: THE CASE OF CIOAC IN ACALA, CHIAPASABSTRACTThis article analyzes the participation of the Independent Central of Agricultural Workers and Peasants (CIOAC) in Chiapas, in the framework of the national peasant struggle. Highlight their organizing and union in the state. Detail the role of the organization in the context of the strategy Salinas and reflect on the loss of regional capacity and independence of the CIOAC against the state and political power. Then, taking as a case study CIOAC in Acala, Chiapas, I describe the strategies of institutionalization of the organization and raised the presence of a crisis of representation of the central.

scholarly journals Biopolitics of COVID-19: Capitalist Continuities and Democratic Openings

2022 ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
Karsten Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Role Of The State

"Biopolitics" has become a popular concept for interpreting the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the term is often used vaguely, as a buzzword, and therefore loses its specificity and relevance. This article systematically explains what the biopolitical lens offers for analyzing and normatively criticizing the politics of the coronavirus. I argue that biopolitics are politics of differentiated vulnerability that are intrinsic to capitalist modernity. The situation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is, therefore, less of a state of exception than it might appear; COVID-19 is a continuation and intensification of the capitalist biopolitics of differentiated vulnerability. In order to critically evaluate this situation, the article proposes the concept of "democratic biopolitics" and shows how it can be used, among others, for a queer critique of the differentiated vulnerabilities that are produced by the coronavirus and its capitalist governance. In contrast to widespread interpretations of democratic biopolitics that focus on collective care in communities, this article highlights the role of the state and of the redistribution of political power and economic resources as key for biopolitical democratization.

ELITE WOMEN IN THE KINGDOM OF KONGO: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN'S POLITICAL POWER

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN K. THORNTON
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Women's Power ◽  
Formal Control ◽  
Senior Women

Discussions of women’s power in Africa often focus on how much the role of senior women is symbolic and how much is real. Studying the Kingdom of Kongo reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries women initially exercised power indirectly through influence on male relatives. However, following the beginning of the civil war after 1665 women began to exercise more open and overt power, taking effective control of some sections of the country and working less through male relatives. However, elite Kongo women never took formal control of the state as they did in Ndongo and Matamba.

scholarly journals REPOSISI DAN PERAN BIROKRASI

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Firdaus Firdaus ◽  
Susi Lawati
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Public Bureaucracy ◽  
Government Bureaucracy ◽  
The Government

The position and role of the state apparatus which is often referred to as the government bureaucracy is of concern, because most of the life of the state is regulated and determined by the government through the government bureaucracy. The position and role of the bureaucracy is interesting to discuss because the position and role have not been as expected. In general, the position of the government bureaucracy is always opposite between the rulers of the government / state and the people or the people they control. Where should the position of the bureaucracy be and what role should it play as long as the bureaucracy emphasizes the position of political power rather than socio-culture, the bureaucracy becomes a servant to certain political interests so that services to the public are replaced by services to political power, so that every service is rooted in public service. always has the color of power and prioritizes the political interests served instead of the public interest as a whole. In line with the changes that have occurred in the order of government implementation and the development of community life in various aspects of life, the role of society in the life of the state has begun to be felt. Public demands began to affect the government work bureaucracy system. This situation in turn makes it increasingly possible to change the position and role of the public bureaucracy.

scholarly journals Method activation end date in the past. direction:re

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 279-289
Author(s):  
Валентин Любашиц ◽  
Valentin Lyubashits ◽  
Алексей Мамычев ◽  
Aleksey Mamychev
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Initial State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
State Apparatus

The article analyzes the concept of the state apparatus, the role of parliaments in the political life of society and the state. The basis of the construction and functioning of the state machinery of any country on objective and subjective factors. The alienation of people from property and political power that has occurred in our country, is the initial state, generating the need for democracy as the need to overcome the old and new forms of alienation of power from society as a resolution of the conflict between the diversity of social and political interests of the subjects of political power and the possibilities of their embodiments of the structures and institutions of power.

Education and the State in Capitalist Society: Aspects of the Sociology of Nicos Poulantzas

1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Svi Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Radical Critique

H. Svi Shapiro reviews some of the major works of the French Marxist sociologist,Nicos Poulantzas. Classes in Contemporary Capitalism, Political Power and Social Classes, and a number of articles dealing with Western capitalist societies are examined to determine their implications for the educational process. Poulantzas produced an extensive and significant body of work on the class structure of modern capitalist societies,and the role of the state, ideology, and political practice. Because of the difficulty of his style, much of this work has remained largely unread. Nevertheless, his writings represent an important contribution to a fully developed radical critique of schools and education under capitalism.

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