scholarly journals O Estado no Pensamento Liberal Clássico: Uma Contribuição ao Debate Político na Geografia

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 40-56
Author(s):  
Iná Elias de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Established Order ◽  
Liberal Thought

This paper is a discussion about State theoric ground on liberal thought during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the links with economic and philosophical order, which had established roots in Western Europe on that period. The paper try to define the role of the State in classical liberalism, its basic assumptions and articulations with capitalism and modern State. Furthermore, the work points out the course of the critics that was opposed to the established order and intended to introduce an alternative political and economic order.

Fragmentation of Citizenship Governance

2017 ◽  
pp. 598-620
Author(s):  
Joel P. Trachtman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The State ◽  
State System ◽  
Modern State ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Positive Rights ◽  
Experience Effects

A future of greater migration will put pressure on the exclusive territorial model of citizenship. In the deepest analytical sense, bundled citizenship is incoherent, and made more so by extraterritorial effects of national decision-making—by the effects on persons in other territories—and, as salient for this chapter, by the mobility of persons that makes them experience effects of governmental decisions in other territories. For most historic periods since the emergence of the modern state system and in most regional contexts this mobility of persons was not significant enough, and the role of the state in providing positive rights was not great enough, to necessitate an international regime for assigning states responsibility for positive rights, and assigning individuals duties to states. However, with greater demand for mobility, greater cooperation to divide up the components of citizenship may be desirable.

“Blue” Morality and the Legitimacy of the State—Ed Rubin's Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 582-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
June Carbone
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Urban Gangs ◽  
Individual Self

Ed Rubin's provocative new book, Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality & the Modern State (2015), attempts to capture the relationship between morality and the state. It maintains that that there are three comprehensive moral systems: the morality of honor that characterized feudal relationships and survives today in failed states and urban gangs, the morality of higher purposes that linked individual self-worth and state legitimacy to a shared belief system, and the morality of self-fulfillment that entrusts development of a moral code to each individual and sees the role of the state as creating the conditions for individual flourishing. This review essay argues that Rubin's work is critically important in explaining that the idea of self-fulfillment combines public tolerance with private discipline, and rests on obligation as well as freedom. It suggests, however, that if the new morality were to truly take hold, it would weaken the links between citizen and state that make the system possible.

Labor-Market Statistics and the State: The United States in the Era of the Great War, 1914–1930

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-334
Author(s):  
William J. Breen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Rational Basis ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Relationship

In recent years scholars from various disciplines have begun to explore new questions concerning the role of the state in society. This article is related to two aspects of this emerging scholarship, namely, the work of scholars interested in the relationship between the state and the production and utilization of knowledge and the related work of what has been called the historical institutional group. Scholars working on the role of the state in the production of knowledge have abandoned an earlier model that saw the state as a passive recipient of knowledge from the private sector and now emphasize interaction: the state is seen as both a consumer and producer of knowledge. Recent research also suggests that the modern state is increasingly dependent on knowledge in order to demonstrate a rational basis for policy decisions: without such justification, the actions of the state lack legitimacy and are open to challenge and opposition. Related to this increased dependence of the state on knowledge is the conundrum of whether knowledge is acquired in order to develop policy or whether policy is adopted first and knowlege then sought in order to justify action.

1. Politics and the State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Garner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Right ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Empirical Typology ◽  
Distribution Of Power

This chapter explains why the state and sovereignty are relevant to the study of politics. It first provides an empirical typology of the state, ranging from the minimalist night-watchman state, approximated to by nineteenth-century capitalist regimes at one end of the spectrum, to the totalitarian state of the twentieth century at the other. It then examines the distribution of power in the state by focusing on three major theories of the state: pluralism, elitism, Marxism, and the New Right theory. It also considers different views about what the role of the state ought to be, from the minimalist state recommended by adherents of classical liberalism, to the pursuit of distinctive social objectives as recommended, in particular, by proponents of communitarianism. Finally, it discusses empirical and normative challenges to the state and asks whether the state's days are numbered.

12. The Modern State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Persson
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Weak State ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Outcomes

This chapter examines the concept of the modern state in a developing world context. More specifically, it considers the characteristics and capabilities that define the modern state and the extent to which the state can be regarded as an autonomous actor with the potential to influence development outcomes. After providing an overview of the role of the state as a potential driver of development, the chapter discusses statehood in the contemporary world and how the evolution of the modern state can be understood. It then asks how different patterns of state formation affect the ways that states further consolidate and develop. It also explains the distinction between the ‘weak’ state found in the majority of developing countries and the ‘strong’ state typically found in the industrialized parts of the world. Finally, it tackles the question of institutional reform from ‘the outside’ and its implications for development.

Reassessing the Role of State-Owned Enterprises in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Richmond ◽  
Dora Benedek ◽  
Bobana Cegar ◽  
Peter Dohlman ◽  
Michelle Hassine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Income Convergence ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Central Eastern

The Central, Eastern, and South Eastern European (CESEE) region is ripe for a reassessment of the role of the state in economic activity. The rapid income convergence with Western Europe of the early 2000s was not always equally shared across society, and it has now slowed dramatically in many countries of the region.

scholarly journals Central European states from a conservative perspective in the period 1990–2004

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Juraj Kalický ◽  
Jana Lasicová ◽  
Jaroslav Ušiak
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Central European ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Preparation Period ◽  
The Impact

CENTRAL EUROPEAN STATES FROM A CONSERVATIVE PERSPECTIVE IN THE PERIOD 1990–2004The post-communist transition of Central European States the V4 countries and their neighbours, when speaking about a broader Central Europe took place in the last decade of the 20th century until the years 2002 and 2004, when the V4 countries were allowed to access the EU and NATO. In this case, the term transition accounts for changes in the political status of states, a transi­tion period in which basic pillars of the state — political system, the market economy, replaced the centrally-planned economy, the security and agenda of human rights, were assessed by new criteria. It was a complicated process that had to be reflected from the perspective of science and research, but also it had to be accepted from the perspective of citizens who did not always perceive the changes in a positive way. Central Europe lacked public discussion, a space that was supposed to be dedicated to the supporters of integration, but also to opposing opinions in order to make transparent attitudes, objections, but mainly, to introduce comprehensible projects of further development. To­day many theoreticians from Western Europe view the absence of public discussion to be a serious lack of planning in the preparation period. Mainly future positive benefits were presented, liberalism as the best solution of economic problems was unilaterally preferred. Little attention was given to possible impacts of the other ideological or theoretical concepts, e.g., conservatism, which puts an emphasis on the important role of the state, traditions, paternalism, and other aspects, which could, at first sight, operate as controlling mechanisms, even barriers to liberalism and integration. At that time, conservatism seemed to be an outdated ideology. But in practice, the situation was different. Conservative parties, and particularly the conservative perspective of reality, became an essential way of problem solving. The article aspires to explain some aspects of the impact of conservatism on the positive process of transition and transformation in Central Europe.

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