scholarly journals Associative Democracy: From ‘the real third way’ back to utopianism or towards a colourful socialism for the 21st century?

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-41
Author(s):  
Veit Bader
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Design ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
Political Democracy ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Democratic Socialism ◽  
The Real ◽  
Institutional Pluralism ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism

Associative Democracy (AD) has been developed as a specific response to statist socialism and neoliberal capitalism, drawing on older traditions such as associationalism, democratic socialism, and cooperative socialism. As the ‘real third way’, it is distinct from neoliberal privatization and deregulation in the Blair–Schröder varieties of social democracy and in the conservative Reagan–Thatcher–Cameron varieties. This article summarizes what seemed to make AD an attractive realist utopia: its combination of economic, societal and political democracy; its focus on democratic institutional pluralism in all these regards; its considered moral/political minimalism; and its practical experimentalism. It recapitalizes some of the important economic, societal and political changes during the last decennia that seem to make AD plainly utopian again. It focuses on an outline of basic principles and institutions of socio-economic alternatives to capitalism because, if neoliberalism rules supreme, no viable alternatives can emerge and grow. Even if there is not one institutional design that fits all countries and contexts, we can show what the basic tenets of such alternatives are and how such a colourful democratic socialism relates to and can integrate other approaches such as ‘circular economy’, ‘foundational economy’ and ‘radical social innovation’. The hope is that AD’s broad institutional pluralism and its emphasis on practical experimentalism show new ways of thinking which are urgently needed for sustainable and socially fair economic development and for renewing representative democracy.

Current Issues: Evidence-Based Practice for the Real World: Thoughts on Clinical Education in Communication Disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Bothe
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Real ◽  
Language Pathology

This article presents some streamlined and intentionally oversimplified ideas about educating future communication disorders professionals to use some of the most basic principles of evidence-based practice. Working from a popular five-step approach, modifications are suggested that may make the ideas more accessible, and therefore more useful, for university faculty, other supervisors, and future professionals in speech-language pathology, audiology, and related fields.

From Market Studies to Society Analysis

2005 ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Ya. Kouzminov ◽  
K. Bendoukidze ◽  
M. Yudkevich
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
The Real ◽  
Economic Agents

The article examines the main concepts of modern institutional theory and the ways its tools and concepts could be applied in the real policy-making. In particular, the authors focus on behavioral assumptions of the theory that allow them to explain the imperfection of economic agents’ behavior as a reason for rules and institutions to emerge. Problems of institutional design are also discussed.

Sweden, Europe, and the Cold War: A Reappraisal

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aryo Makko
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Third World ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Democratic Socialism ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War

Traditionally, Sweden has been portrayed as an active bridge-builder in international politics in the 1960s and 1970s. The country advocated a “third way” toward democratic socialism and greater “justice” in international affairs, but these foreign policy prescriptions were never applied to European affairs. This article examines Sweden's relations with Europe by contrasting European integration with the Cold War. Negotiations on Swedish membership in the European Communities and Swedish policy at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe were influenced by a general Berührungsangst toward Europe, which persisted during the years of détente. Because Swedish decision-makers believed that heavy involvement in European affairs would constrict Sweden's freedom of action, Swedish leaders' moral proclamations were applied exclusively to distant Third World countries rather than the egregious abuses of human rights in the Soviet bloc.

After a long discussion on the advantages and drawbacks of each method (production or capital), it was decided that the decision would be made during the next meeting. On March 16, 1832, the Board opted for the capital method. However, the debate was re­ vived less than a year later when at the August 20, 1833 meeting the chief accountant was instructed to compare Saint-Gobain’s and Chauny's respective efficiencies. . . . we shall probably be told, with good reason, that if cost prices are charged with the mostly arbitrary distribu­ tion of overheads, those cost prices are an unreliable means of comparing the economical efficiency of differ­ ent methods of manufacturing. That is why we wish to propose a third way in which overhead expenses of the Headquarters are not charged to any production. For the last four months, Saint-Gobain has been costed at OF79 per square foot. At Chauny, both raw materials and labor are worked out at OF51 per square foot. If you add the depreciation of the building and the machinery of that factory, the cost rises to OF71, and if we wish to have figures that could be compared to those of Saint-Gobain, repair expenses for the machinery, the cost for slack peri­ ods or flawed glass must be added. The records in our accounts are not yet accurate enough and moreover too recent to allow us to give precise figures for these kinds of expenses. But no doubt they will go over OF80; conse­ quently, the question of economical efficiency is settled. The overhead expenses to be shared included traveling ex­ penses, tokens, salaries of administrators, a hypothetical rent for the Paris building, and operating expenses, but the fate of divi­ dends paid to shareholders was not sealed. It was raised on Sep­ tember 4, 1834 by the chief accountant: It has often been said that we should not include divi­ dends in the cost prices: this is a big mistake; a Limited Company must always be considered as a business which, thanks to its repute, can borrow funds for its ac­ tivity: those funds produce interests, which amount must be deducted from the profit ... if the interests were not included in the cost prices, we could not know the real profit of the soda factory. The Continuity of accounting methods. The Board of Directors of Saint-Gobain was also concerned about comparability of ac­ counting data over periods of time and under different variation methods. The following quotation may seem somewhat difficult to

2014 ◽  
pp. 261-261
Keyword(s):  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Real ◽  
Economical Efficiency ◽  
Counting Data ◽  
Limited Company ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The Cost

scholarly journals Making Science Fiction Real: Neoliberalism, Real-Life and Esports in Eve Online

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Richard Johnson ◽  
Robert Mejia
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Real World ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Political Economic

In this paper, we argue that EVE Online is a fruitful site for exploring how the representational and political-economic elements of science fiction intersect to exert a sociocultural and political-economic force on the shape and nature of the future-present. EVE has been oft heralded for its economic and sociocultural complexity, and for employing a free market ethos and ethics in its game world. However, we by contrast seek not to consider how EVE reflects our contemporary world, but rather how our contemporary neoliberal milieu reflects EVE. We explore how EVE works to make its world of neoliberal markets and borderline anarcho-capitalism manifest through the political economic and sociocultural assemblages mobilized beyond the game. We explore the deep intertwining of  behaviors of players both within and outside of the game, demonstrating that EVE promotes neoliberal  activity in its players, encourages these behaviors outside the game, and that players who have found success in the real world of neoliberal capitalism are those best-positioned for success in the time-demanding and resource-demanding world of EVE. This thereby sets up a reciprocal ideological determination between the real and virtual worlds of EVE players, whereby each reinforces the other. We lastly consider the “Alliance Tournament” event, which romanticizes conflict and competition, and argue that it serves as a crucial site for deploying a further set of similar rhetorical resources. The paper therefore offers an understanding of the sociocultural and political-economic pressure exerted on the “physical” world by the intersection of EVE’s representational and material elements, and what these show us about the real-world ideological power of science fictional worlds.

Rawls and Ownership: The Forgotten Category of Reproductive Labor

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 139-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibyl Schwarzenbach
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Democratic Socialism ◽  
Reproductive Labor ◽  
The Real ◽  
Justice As Fairness ◽  
Principles Of Justice

A careful, theoretical clarification of gender roles has only recently begun in social and political philosophy. It is the aim of the following piece to reveal that an analysis of women’s traditional position - her distinctive activities, labor and surrounding sense of ‘mine’ - can not only make valuable contributions towards clarifying traditional property disputes, but may even provide elements for a new conception of ownership. By way of illustration, the article focusses on the influential work of John Rawls and argues that - when Rawls’s own analysis and principles of justice are supplemented by an account of what is here called ‘reproductive labor’ - his theory in fact tends to a form of democratic socialism. Stated somewhat differently, my aim is to shift the terms of the property debate as posed by Rawls fromwithinhis own position. I hope to show that the real ownership question which now emerges is no longerwhether‘justice as fairness’ countenances a private property or socialist form of democracy, but what preciseformsuch a socialism should take.

Love and Marxism

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-504
Author(s):  
Greta R. Krippner
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Design ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
The Body ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
The Real ◽  
Recent Formulation

Erik Olin Wright’s scholarship is often considered to be formed by two entirely disjoint projects represented by his early work on class analysis and his later writings on “real utopias.” This essay uses Michael Burawoy’s recent formulation of the “two Marxisms” thesis as a foil to argue for the continuities rather than discontinuities in the body of work produced by Wright. More particularly, the critical spirit of the real utopias project infused Wright’s work on class analysis from its inception. It is further argued that the limitations Wright encountered in realizing those critical aims directly seeded the search in his later work for institutional design principles and an explicit articulation of normative values that could undergird alternatives to capitalism.

Machiavelli on the Plebeian Power to Create and Punish

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-143
Author(s):  
Camila Vergara
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Socioeconomic Inequalities ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Constitutional Thought ◽  
Free Government

This chapter begins by presenting Niccolò Machiavelli's constitutional thought as the foundation of a type of constitutionalism that is material in its analysis of law and procedures, and anti-oligarchic in its institutional design. It recognizes the influence that socioeconomic inequalities exert over political power, in which Machiavelli embraces conflict as the effective cause of free government and strives to empower and channel emancipatory, plebeian energies through the constitutional order. It also focuses on Machiavelli's most important contribution to materialist constitutionalism: the plebeian nature of constituent power. The chapter contends that the constituent power in Machiavelli serves not as a bridge between basic principles and politics, but rather as the power exerted to resist oppression and establish plebeian and anti-oligarchic institutions. It looks at the democratic theory on the constituent power that has been conceived as the autopoietic power of the community.

The essence of democracy

1915 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Hasbach
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Political Democracy ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Democratic Socialism ◽  
The People ◽  
European Science

Mr. W. J. Shepard, in a review of my work, Die moderne Demokratie, remarks that I have forgotten its spirit in the study of its forms. “It is not the vitalizing spirit,” he writes, “the impelling motive force, the broadly based popular sentiment of democracy that is of interest, but only the forms and mechanism ‥‥ of democratic-republican states.” Now I have in the fifth chapter of the second book presented the theory of political democracy, in the sixth that of social democracy, and in the seventh that of democratic socialism; and in the first of these three chapters I have discussed popular sovereignty and active citizenship, the supremacy of the majority in a democracy, the unlimited constituent power of the people (pouvoir constituant), in which European science has conceived the essence of this form of the state to reside in contradistinction to other forms. But Mr. Shepard has a different conception of its nature. He has raised an interesting question in this connection which I should like to discuss in the following pages.Brief though his statement on this point is, no one can doubt that he considers the supremacy of public opinion as the essence of democracy, since he writes: “No discussion of the nature, elements and effects of public opinion, no appreciation of the spirit of democracy is to be found in the covers of this volume.” As a matter of fact I have treated of this subject in the above-mentioned first division of the fifth chapter, which is devoted to the discussion of popular sovereignty, though certainly in the brief compass which appeared to me sufficient for the understanding of the nature of democracy.

Some Remarks on Discovery

1967 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 839-842
Author(s):  
Steven Szabo
Keyword(s):  
Real Numbers ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Real ◽  
New Math

It is quite common to hear from the proponents of the so-called new math that the student should he allowed to discover basic principles of, say, the real numbers. And, when they say these magic words, there is a general nodding of heads.

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