scholarly journals Westminster’s Brexit Paradox: The contingency of the ‘old’ versus ‘new’ politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Richards ◽  
Patrick Diamond ◽  
Alan Wager
Keyword(s):  
Political Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Politics ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Form ◽  
Critical Challenge ◽  
The Way

The embedded nature of the British Political Tradition has created a series of pathologies about the way politics in Westminster is conducted. The endurance of the British Political Tradition emanates from its resilience to pressures for reform. Yet the rising anti-politics tide, the expression of which was vented in the 2016 European Union referendum, presents a critical challenge to the British Political Tradition. Given the political instability resulting from Brexit, this article maps the fate of previous attempts to reform the way politics is conducted in Britain. It identifies two waves of ‘new politics’ that have defined themselves against the ‘old politics’ of the British Political Tradition: the first, a series of demands for reform during the 1970s; the second, a sustained call for political reform from the 1990s onwards. The subsequent analysis reveals a link between both waves in demands for a less ‘elitist’ and more participatory style of democracy, but at the same time, a failure to dislodge the core tenets of the British Political Tradition. Given the current state of British politics, the article considers whether calls for a new form of politics in response to the climate of anti-politics, and the need for a post-Brexit settlement, will suffer a similar fate.

scholarly journals Von Staatsgrenze zu Dialektgrenze.

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 307-328
Author(s):  
Pascale Erhart
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Current State ◽  
Political Border ◽  
National Border ◽  
Project Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Upper Rhine ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

The ANR/DFG cooperation project called “FLARS – Effects of the national border on the linguistic situation in the Upper Rhine area”, between the University of Freiburg and the University of Strasbourg, examined the emergence and the nature of a linguistic border between France and Germany in the Alemannic-speaking regions Alsace and Baden, and its interdependence with the political border. The project data were collected through interviews conducted in 40 localities alongside the political border. The questions focused on what informants think and say about languages and about their use of them; about the current state of the dialects, the way they are spoken, their usefulness, their importance; and also on what they think and say about the way the inhabitants of the other side of the Rhine speak, what may make it different, and their position regarding that. A first analysis shows that most of the French and German informants think that both sides of the Rhine do not differ much linguistically, but that this proximity is not a sufficient condition for evoking a “transnational language”, as other aspects of their lives, lifestyles and identities are considered as different. This article will focus on the discourse produced by dialect speakers about the Rhine as a border and about common or different linguistic and cultural features with their neighbours.

Reasserting the Centre: The Brexit Doctrine and the Imperative Mandate in British Politics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph W Ward
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
Government Management ◽  
The Government

Abstract Despite the outpouring of scholarship on the motivations behind the 2016 EU referendum result and the preliminary impact of Brexit on British politics, comparatively little time has been spent analysing the government(s) entrusted with implementation. This article aims to address this gap in the literature, examining government management of the Brexit process as a case study through which to illustrate the continued relevance of the British Political Tradition in British politics. It argues that through Brexit implementation, the May government initiated a process of centralisation of both policy-making influence and administrative resources within Whitehall. This process was shielded externally by appeals to the referendum result as an imperative mandate parliament was obliged to implement. Although the political landscape of May’s premiership was characterised by flux, these internal shifts towards centralisation in the executive are proposed to have had a more sustained impact through the reassertion of aspects of Britain’s ‘power-hoarding’ constitutional settlement.

scholarly journals Investing in a Third: Colonization, Religious Fundamentalism, and Adolescence

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Elaine P. Miller
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
The Political ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Way ◽  
The French Revolution

In her keynote address to the Kristeva Circle 2014, Julia Kristeva argued that European Humanism dating from the French Revolution paradoxically paved the way for “those who use God for political ends” by promoting a completely and solely secular path to the political. As an unintended result of this movement this path has led, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, to the development of a new form of nihilism that masks itself as revolutionary but in fact is the opposite, in Kristeva’s view.  Kristeva analyzed the culture of religious fundamentalism as “adolescent” in the sense that the adolescent, in contrast to the child, is a believer rather than a questioner.  Although the psychoanalytic consideration of religious fundamentalism added a new dimension to attempts to explain the increase of this phenomenon in the late 20th and 21st centuries, Kristeva’s subsequent linkage of fundamentalism to the revolts in French suburbs in 2005 and beyond fell short of an insightful critique by neglecting the historical context of France’s colonial history.

History of Philosophy as a Memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Stanisław Buda
Keyword(s):  
Special Property ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Progress ◽  
New System ◽  
The Way

In the first part I focus on the issue of progress, in particular progress in philosophy. Philosophical progress has a special property that it shares with the process of becoming a better person. It is constantly finding yourself “on the way”. This path is not only anchored in the Absolutely Perfect but it conditions and stimulates the reflection towards the truth about the relationship between Him and us. We can assume that the core of this reflection is philosophy. The second part is devoted to the paradoxical nature of the most generally understood memory. I assume that the condition of awareness of a certain content is its outdatedness, that is, its transfer to the sphere of memory. Memory is a constantly updated and constantly re-ordered picture of everything that the subject has ever relegated from being, so that it can be replaced by something else. The foundation of this order is a certain axiology. In the third part I show how the sketched concept of memory is used to describe the mechanism of the evolution of philosophical thought. The “on the way” philosophy would consist of two constantly repeated activities: on reconstructing what is to be denied, and thus on the recognition of the previous philosophical achievements in its totality, and on its negation. This denial would concern the whole of this achievement as an axiologically reconstructed unity. The new system is only realized as a series of consequences of the negation of the current state. The vast majority of philosophical reflection focuses on the constitution of this current state, its supposed unity. In the short part of the fourth, I draw up prospects for further deliberations.

scholarly journals Financiamento de campanhas eleitorais no brasil: uma análise legislativa, doutrinária e judicial

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Nunes Apolinário ◽  
Tatiana Afonso Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
Electoral Campaign ◽  
De Se ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Campaign Financing ◽  
The Way

 RESUMOO presente trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa de cunho e metodologia bibliográfico e documental, e discute o financiamento de campanhas eleitorais como um dos temas dentro do grande debate da reforma política. Em um primeiro momento, elucida-se de que forma o financiamento de campanhas está inserido na reforma política. Posteriormente, passa-se a uma análise do histórico legislativo brasileiro sobre o tema do financiamento de campanhas eleitorais. Também são expostos alguns dos argumentos contrários e favoráveis aos sistemas público e privado de financiamento, além de se abordar de que forma se configura o atual sistema (misto). Ademais, abordar-se-á o estado da questão, que foi recentemente debatido pela Suprema Corte brasileira. Por fim, versa-se sobre a chegada da demanda ao STF como um caso de judicialização da política. Como resultados conclusivos da pesquisa, temos que: o financiamento de campanhas passou a ser regrado no Brasil à medida que o dinheiro passou a aumentar sua importância dentro dos diversos setores da sociedade; cada sistema apresenta aspectos positivos e negativos, e deve-se fazer uma boa análise a fim de se indicar o mais adequado à democracia brasileira; e, por fim, a questão sendo discutida no judiciário, mesmo trazendo à tona as discussões sobre o financiamento de campanhas e a reforma política, convidando a sociedade a debater sobre o tema, acaba por se transformar em mais um caso de judicialização da política no Brasil.PALAVRAS-CHAVEDemocracia. Financiamento de Campanhas Eleitorais. Reforma Política.ABSTRACTThis paper is the result of a bibliographical-documental research and discusses the electoral campaigns financing as one of the themes inside the political reform debate. At first, it elucidates how the campaigns financing is inserted in political reform. After that, it goes to an analysis of Brazilian legislative historical about the subject of electoral campaign financing. Some favourable and contrary arguments to private and public financings are exposed, moving further to an approach about the way Brazilian system is nowadays (mixed). Furthermore, the text treats of the question’s current pertinence, which has been recently debated by Brazilian Supreme Court. Finally, it deals with the litigation arrival to the STF as a case of politics judicialization. As conclusive results of the investigation, we have that the campaigns financing started being ruled in Brazil as soon as money had its importance increased in different sectors of society; each system presents negative and positive aspects and we must make a good analysis in order to point the most suitable to Brazilian democracy; and, finally, the subject being discussed in judiciary, although bringing to light the discussions about. campaigns financing and political reform, inviting society to debate about. the theme, ends by becoming one more case of politics judicialization in Brazil.KEYWORDSDemocracy. Electoral Campaigns Financing. Political Reform. 

scholarly journals The Weakness of Liberal Democracy a Lever to the Success of Anti-Establishment Parties: Chantal Mouffe on Challenges of the Political

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-346
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Borkowska-Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Current State ◽  
Chantal Mouffe ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
The Way

Today in Europe we are witnessing a populist turn, we could even speak of a “populist moment” that signals the crisis of neoliberal democracy. According to Chantal Mouffe, “the populist moment” is the expression of a set of heterogeneous demands, which cannot be formulated in traditional right/left frontier. The battles of our time will be between right-wing and left-wing populism. Although the current state of liberal societies appears to favor the development of a Right project, Mouffe proves that just a left-wing one can uphold any kind of radicalisation of democracy. The aim of this paper is to examine the reasons for the increasing success of populist parties in European countries and to consider whether the way the present crisis is manifesting is conducive to the growth of a populist narrative, especially in its right-wing variant.

Transplant or graft? Hroch and the Mexican patriotic movements

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henio Hoyo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
New Spain ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Core ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Way

In his highly influential work on the “small,” stateless European nations, Hroch seems to assume that patriotic movements have a homogeneous view about the core relations or “ties” that constitute and identify their nations. This assumption seems generally correct for the cases Hroch studies. However, is it correct if applied to the study of those patriotic movements developing in comparatively larger, heterogeneous and underdeveloped societies, comprising several ethnic groups bound together by the colonialist rule of an autocratic empire? I argue that, while the colonial experience can lead to the creation of some ties among the dominated populations, it also affects the way patriotic movements perceive their own nations. As a result, the phase of patriotic agitation can involve diverse movements addressing the same nation, but each having a particular view on the features and history of it. Such contested patriotic doctrines can lead to very important variations in the political agendas and goals of those movements, especially when they reach the mass phase. To exemplify this, the nineteenth century movements in New Spain/Mexico will be used as an example.

Leone de' Sommi and Jewish Theatre in Renaissance Mantua

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Donald Beecher
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Social Negotiations ◽  
Renaissance Artist ◽  
The Way

This is a study of a Renaissance artist and his patrons, but with an added complication, insofar as Leone de' Sommi, the gifted academician and playwright in the employ of the dukes of Mantua in the second half of the sixteenth century, was Jewish and a lifelong promoter and protector of his community. The article deals with the complex relationship between the court and the Jewish "università" concerning the drama and the way in which dramatic performances also became part of the political, judicial and social negotiations between the two parties, as well as a study of Leone's role as playwright and negotiator during a period that was arguably one of the best of times for the Jews of Mantua.

“I'd make thee eat the mischief thou hast vented”: Discourse of Law in Ben Jonson's Catiline His Conspiracy

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-45
Author(s):  
Akihiko Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Gunpowder Plot ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Legal Procedures ◽  
The Way

This essay explores the discourse of law that constitutes the controversial apprehension of Cicero's issuing of the ultimate decree of the Senate (senatus consultum ultimum) in Catiline. The play juxtaposes the struggle of Cicero, whose moral character and legitimacy are at stake in regards to the extra-legal uses of espionage, with the supposedly mischievous Catilinarians who appear to observe legal procedures more carefully throughout their plot. To mitigate this ambivalence, the play defends Cicero's actions by depicting the way in which Cicero establishes the rhetoric of public counsel to convince the citizens of his legitimacy in his unprecedented dealing with Catiline. To understand the contemporaneousness of Catiline, I will explore the way the play integrates the early modern discourses of counsel and the legal maxim of ‘better to suffer an inconvenience than mischief,’ suggesting Jonson's subtle sensibility towards King James's legal reformation which aimed to establish and deploy monarchical authority in the state of emergency (such as the Gunpowder Plot of 1605). The play's climactic trial scene highlights the display of the collected evidence, such as hand-written letters and the testimonies obtained through Cicero's spies, the Allbroges, as proof of Catiline's mischievous character. I argue that the tactical negotiating skills of the virtuous and vicious characters rely heavily on the effective use of rhetoric exemplified by both the political discourse of classical Rome and the legal discourse of Tudor and Jacobean England.

The Political Theology of Schelling

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saitya Brata Das
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Political Works ◽  
The Way

This book rigorously examines the theologico-political works of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, setting his thought against Hegel's and showing how he prepared the way for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida.

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