Solidarität Erwägungen zu ihrer gegenwärtigen Problematik

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Christian Walther
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Needs ◽  
The One ◽  
Close Interrelationship

Abstract Starting from the fundamental role which is assigned to solidarity in politics and society, the essay tries to answer the question of whether or not solidarity still functions accordingly. Observations showing that there are deficits in the actual ways expression is given to solidarity cause the search for the reasons. In this context attention is drawn to a close interrelationship between a highly developed welfare - state and its administering corporate solidarity on the one band and an almost hypertrophied individualism which feels itself widely released from acting in solidarity on the other band. Both has led to lessen sensitivity for the need of cultivating a personal sense of solidarity. To meet individual needs as weil as social requirements, it seems necessary to find an new balance

Entreprenøren som figur under neoliberalismen - Kapitalisme, individ og velfærdsorganisering

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luise Li Langergaard
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Economic Innovation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Welfare State

The article explores the central role of the entrepreneur in neoliberalism. It demonstrates how a displacement and a broadening of the concept of the entrepreneur occur in the neoliberal interpretation of the entrepreneur compared to Schumpeter’s economic innovation theory. From being a specific economic figure with a particular delimited function the entrepreneur is reinterpreted as, on the one hand, a particular type of subject, the entrepreneur of the self, and on the other, an ism, entrepreneurialism, which permeates individuals, society, and institutions. Entrepreneurialism is discussed as a movement of the economic into previously non-economic domains, such as the welfare state and society. Social entrepreneurship is an example of this in relation to solutions to social welfare problems. This can, on the one hand, be understood as an extension of the neoliberal understanding of the entrepreneur, but it also, in certain interpretations, resists the neoliberal understanding of economy and society.

The Political Construction of a Coordinated Political Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Philip Manow
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The One

The first chapter motivates the book’s central research question: how did the German variant of capitalism emerge, and what today is its central functioning logic? The chapter argues that past and recent accounts of Germany’s economic performance and economic policy have failed to fully explain how long-term stable economic coordination could have evolved in as large a country as Germany, and that this has also translated into an often biased view of Germany’s current economic policies. The chapter sketches the basic argument of the book—namely that the German welfare state was the prime means of economic coordination for unions and employers, labor and capital—and situates it in two relevant literatures: the Varieties of Capitalism literature on the one hand and the Comparative Welfare State literature on the other. The chapter also presents an overview of the book.

Social Quality in a Transitive Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriy Heyets
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Quality Approach ◽  
The Welfare State

Nearly 30 years of transformation of the sociopolitical and legal, socioeconomical and financial, sociocultural and welfare, and socioenvironmental dimensions in both Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, has led to a change of the social quality of daily circumstances. On the one hand, the interconnection and reciprocity of these four relevant dimensions of societal life is the underlying cause of such changes, and on the other, the state as main actor of the sociopolitical and legal dimension is the initiator of those changes. Applying the social quality approach, I will reflect in this article on the consequences of these changes, especially in Ukraine. In comparison, the dominant Western interpretation of the “welfare state” will also be discussed.

The Theoretical Potential of the Within-Nation Comparison: How Sub-National Analyses Can Enrich Our Understandings of the National Welfare State

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 861-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prerna Singh
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Theory Generation ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The One

This article seeks to showcase the previously underexplored theoretical potential of the recent “sub-national turn” in comparative politics. Specifically, I hope to delineate how theories derived to explain variation in an outcome across sub-national units can enrich our repertoire of theories to explain variation in the same and/or related outcomes across national units. I show the potential of this method of theory generation through an analysis of social welfare, a specially apposite outcome for this purpose because it has been studied rigorously at the both the national and sub-national levels of analyses. I argue that sub-national analyses can, on the one hand, help us refine and rethink national-level theories for the same outcomes. They can push us to nuance and extend established national theories and show us how the same variables and mechanisms that have been hypothesized to explain cross-country variations might work differently, even in opposite directions, within countries. On the other hand, sub-national analyses can push us past the established repertoire of national-level explanations to bring to light new (or forgotten) theories. In this way, this article seeks to challenge cross-country analyses as the exclusive domain of theory building in comparative politics.

scholarly journals LYKKEN PÅ FØRTIDSPENSION - VELFÆRDSSTAT OG AFFEKTIV MOBILITET I JENS BLENDSTRUPS GUD TALER UD

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (116) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Peter Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
The Welfare State

HAPPINESS ON EARLY RETIREMENT: THE WELFARE STATE AND AFFECTIVE MOBILITY IN JENS BLENDSTRUP’S GUD TALER UD | The article takes its point of departure in current happiness studies and probes the possibly fruitful interdisciplinary relation between research in social science that suggests close links between the Nordic welfare model and the high levels of selfreported happiness we find in the region, and literary criticism which instinctively seems to hold that unhappiness is most conducive to inspire the literary mind. To demonstrate that things are never as simple as that, the article reads Jens Blendstrup’s novel, Gud taler ud (2004), as an example of both a welfare narrative and of what it coins ”an affective mobility story”: a story about a person’s enhanced feeling of happiness in retirement. On the one hand, the novel portrays a person who finds happiness when he is granted early retirement from the welfare state. On the other hand, the novel relates this in such a manner that we are reminded that one man’s happiness may be another’s unhappiness.

Demokratischer Konstitutionalismus

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The One ◽  
Party State ◽  
The Welfare State

For Dieter Grimm, the constitution that emerged from the bourgeois revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries appears as one of the greatest achievements of our time. Originally geared to the liberal state, it now faces challenges from within and without. The party state and the welfare state on the one hand, and Europeanisation and globalisation on the other, are escaping its grip. The question is therefore whether and how the specific conjunction of democracy and the rule of law, including fundamental rights, can be maintained under the changing conditions. With contributions by Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Christine Landfried, Christoph Möllers, Ulrich K. Preuß, Dominik Rennert, Helge Rossen-Stadtfeld, Lars Viellechner, Uwe Volkmann, Hans Vorländer and Rainer Wahl.

scholarly journals Beyond Compassionate Aid: Precarious Bureaucrats and Dutiful Asylum Seekers in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Giudici
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
State Restructuring ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The One ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
Alternative Discourses

In this article, I track shifting paradigms of refugee management in Italy in times of austerity and welfare state restructuring. Drawing on an ethnographic analysis of asylum-related bureaucratic work in Bologna, the essay explores paradoxical and violent effects of welfare decline both on reception workers’ labor conditions and on the dynamic of aid that they end up providing to asylum seekers. On the one hand, recent developments in asylum management in Italy suggest a transition to post-compassionate forms of aid, hinged more on the making of dutiful subjects ready to repay the “hospitality” offered by the state than on the moral imperative to rescue suffering bodies and lives. On the other hand, reception workers’ precarious positioning and unrest hold the potential for exposing the inherent contradictions of state-based narratives, thereby shaping alternative discourses on the causes and responsibilities of both refugee and economic “crises.” Abstract Questo articolo ricostruisce l’emergere di nuovi paradigmi di gestione dei rifugiati in Italia, in tempi di austerità e ristrutturazione dei sistemi di welfare. Prendendo spunto dall’analisi etnografica di un ufficio di supporto per l’asilo a Bologna, l’articolo esplora effetti violenti e paradossali dello smantellamento del welfare pubblico, sia sulle condizioni di lavoro degli operatori dell’accoglienza, che sulle dinamiche di aiuto a richiedenti asilo che essi finiscono col contribuire a produrre. Le recenti trasformazioni nella gestione dell’asilo in Italia suggeriscono uno slittamento verso forme di aiuto post-compassionevoli, incentrate più sulla costruzione di soggetti attivamente impegnati nel ricompensare “l’ospitalità” offerta dallo stato, che sull’imperativo morale di salvare corpi e vite sofferenti. Al tempo stesso, la precarietà e il dissenso dei lavoratori dell’accoglienza sono potenzialmente in grado di illuminare alcune delle contraddizioni intrinseche alle narrazioni statali, elaborando così discorsi alternativi sulle cause e responsabilità della “crisi”, sia migratoria che economica.

scholarly journals «Welfare state» versus ideological matrix of «monetary civilization» (about the problem of state construction in present-day Russia)

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
M G Abramova
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Common Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
World Picture ◽  
State Construction ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

The author offers a thorough analysis of the politico-legal component of capitalism and arrives at the conclusion that its foundations are based on the legal, moral, ethical values and political concepts of Western Christianity. It was liberal ideologists who borrowed the ideas about the so-called «sacred» role of monies and denial of the nation-state concept from this world picture where the ‘common law’ played the central role. The author juxtaposes this ideological matrix of the ideocratic state concept tabled by Russian Eurasian philosophers (on the one hand) and the doctrine set forth by the neoliberal law experts at the beginning of the XX century with their idea of «a welfare state» (on the other hand).

Israel: leave policy, familialism and the neoliberal welfare state

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
The Other ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Paid Leave ◽  
Paternity Leave ◽  
Social Struggle ◽  
Unpaid Leave ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
The One

Developments in leave policy in Israel during the decade 2007-2017 followed what could best be described as an uncertain route. On the one hand, after five decades of stalemate, in this decade leave was extended several times in several ways. First, paid Maternity Leave increased from 12 to 14 weeks, followed by an extension of unpaid leave, the introduction of Paternity Leave, and finally – following a social struggle – the further extension of paid leave to 15 weeks, with the promise of further extensions. However, these incremental changes were minimal, even in the eyes of their initiators. Among policymakers and activists alike, the consensus was that leave for parents was too short to answer families' needs, and that the changes had to be seen as small steps toward a larger goal – which remained unachieved. This situation, the chapter argues, can be understood as a tension between the combined effects of Israeli familialism and international developments in leave policy, on the one hand; and the extreme neoliberalisation of the Israeli welfare state and its adherence to the 'austerity of welfare' principle, on the other.

Beyond Apocalyptic Demography: Towards a Moral Economy of Interdependence

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANN ROBERTSON
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Older People ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Older Population ◽  
Political Economy Analysis ◽  
Independence Results ◽  
The One

Employing a political economy analysis of need as it relates to the ageing of the population in the context of the postmodern welfare state, this paper attempts to go beyond the narrow confines of the apocalyptic demography argument that an increasing dependent older population represents social and fiscal catastrophe. Older people are caught between a social ethic which values independence on the one hand, and, on the other, a service ethic which constructs them as dependent. This paper argues that this dichotomy between dependence and independence results from a depoliticisation of need, in part the legacy of a radical individualism combined with a postmodern therapeutic ethic. The deeper issues which lie at the heart of the apocalyptic demography argument have to do with issues of need, reciprocity, and community. This paper argues further that a moral economy of interdependence, based on the notion of reciprocity, transcends the dependency/independency dichotomy, repoliticises need, and thereby creates the possibility of a revitalisation of civil society.

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