scholarly journals The Overview of the Economic System in Papal Encyclicals

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-225
Author(s):  
Marta Sienkiewicz ◽  
Wojciech Świder
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Social Perspective ◽  
Specific System

The article is an analysis and presentation of the overview of economic systems to which the popes of that time referred in their documents, most often in encyclicals. The article presents the image of society in the economic and social perspective as well as interpretations and comments on a specific system, which were included in the papal encyclicals. The article is a presentation of how popes in encyclicals responded to the emerging changes in the political system and new economic ideas.

Ethics and Aesthetics in the Context of Early Confucian Perceptions of Public Administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Nikolay P.  Martynenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Political System ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Optimal System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Specific System ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Active Involvement

The ideas of early Confucianism regarding the art of public administration in the most general form can be reduced to the synthesis of ethics and aesthetics in the demand to transform for the better the morals of disciples, rulers, and people in general. This view was reflected in the development in Confucianism of the specific system of education and transformation of morals, in which an important role was ascribed to studying the poetic art, rites and rituals, to the guidance in benevolent and respectful relations between people and mutual help, while special emphasis was made on the comprehension of musical art. The basic stability of the political system was supposed to be based on morals and relations between people. Achievement in the field of education of the members of society was attained through the active involvement of ethical and aesthetic principles, the synthesis of which was required to create the best system of public administration. Confucians` notions of establishing an optimal system of administration through education based on the study of rituals and rites, poetic art and music had a significant impact on the evolution of Chinese culture and civilization.

scholarly journals Resisting neoliberalism? Movements against austerity and for democracy in Cairo, Athens and London

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armine Ishkanian ◽  
Marlies Glasius
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Political System ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Neoliberal Policies

Drawing on interviews conducted with activists from Athens, Cairo and London in 2013, we examine activists’ understandings of, critiques of and concerns around neoliberal policies. We demonstrate that activists often imply, and sometimes explicitly formulate, a fundamental incompatibility between the current economic system and their conceptions of democracy, but also that ‘anti-neoliberal’ is a very inadequate label for describing their political positions and practices. We demonstrate how activists developed deeply interlinked critiques of both the political system and the economic policies that emanated from it. We maintain that at least as important as their discourses were their practices. We analyse how solidarity and self-help practices were perceived as political interventions, rather than acts of charity, through which activists confronted the state with its failure to provide basic services.

The Rationality of Collective Suicide

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Noam Chomsky
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Terminal Phase ◽  
The Political ◽  
Short Term

Surveying the historical record, we can find examples of societies so organized that they drifted towards catastrophe with a certain inevitability, systematically avoiding steps that could have changed this course. Our own society is an example, except that in this case the catastrophe that lies ahead involves national and perhaps global suicide. It is hardly unrealistic to surmise that we may be entering the terminal phase of history.The course that we pursue is deeply rooted in our social institutions and relatively independent of the choice of individuals who happen to fill institutional roles in the political or economic system. Furthermore, the steps taken towards destruction have a certain short-term rationality within the framework of existing institutions and the kind of planning they engender. Such planning is largely a matter of short-term calculation of gain; this is entirely natural in competitive societies, where those who contemplate the longer term are unlikely to be in the competition when it arrives, and this natural framework of planning carries over to the political system that is, overwhelmingly, under the influence of those who own and manage the private society.

scholarly journals Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and the Pursuit of Democracy: Lessons from Taiwan and China

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
John F. Copper
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Political System ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Situational Variables

China and Taiwan are useful contrasting models for assessing the growth of political party competition and democracy. Both nations (or political entities) are demographically, historically, and culturally similar; thus, these and other situational variables are controlled such that the causality of the type of economic system and the openness of the political system emerges more clearly.

De besluitvorming inzake kernenergie in het Belgisch politiek bestel

Res Publica ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-348
Author(s):  
Ivo Vanpol
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Political System ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Parliamentary Debate

The nuclear energy decision-making process is a clear example of the difficulty the Belgian political system has in making decisions. An explanation for this incapability has to be sought among the political elite, which allows the Belgian economy to be directed by special interests.This admission fits into an «elitist consensus», an unwritten agreement among top-political leaders. Threats to this elitist consensus are subtly neutralized, leaving the power of these economie groups unaffected.  The power of the private producers of electricity is to a large extent consolidated by the inertia of the political system. This passivity is instrumental in maintaining the elitist consensus. The power of the anti-nuclear groups, measured in its mobilizing effects, is relatively small. As producers of energy, the electricity companies have a privileged position in the Belgian economic  system, because energy is thought to be the motor of economic  growth. A thorough parliamentary debate on energy could change the elitist consensus but for this, a political majority would have to be found.

Effect of the political system on perinatal and neonatal care in Berlin between 1950 and 2010

2015 ◽  
Vol 219 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Grünwald ◽  
M Beer ◽  
S Mamay ◽  
F Rupp ◽  
J Stupin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Neonatal Care ◽  
The Political

Ein Ende mit Schrecken – Frankreich nach den Wahlen

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (188) ◽  
pp. 495-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Syrovatka
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Deep Crisis

The presidential and parliamentary elections were a political earthquake for the French political system. While the two big parties experienced massive losses of political support, the rise of new political formations took place. Emmanuel Macron is not only the youngest president of the V. Republic so far, he is also the first president not to be supported by either one of the two biggest parties. This article argues that the election results are an expression of a deep crisis of representation in France that is rooted in the economic transformations of the 1970s. The article analyses the political situation after the elections and tries to give an outlook on further political developments in France.

The principles of duality in the light of the system economic theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
George B. Kleiner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Economic System ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Reproduction Cycle ◽  
Basic Concepts

This paper shows the diversity and significance of relations of duality among different economic systems. The composition of the principles underlying the system economic theory used for the analysis of duality in the economy is investigated. The concept of the economic system is clarified and the equivalence of three basic concepts of the economic system is shown: a) as a space-time volume (“black box”); b) as a complex of elements and connections among them; c) as a tetrad, including object, project, process and environment components. In a new way, the concept of the tetrad is revealed. The actual interpretation of the interrelationships of its components, based on the mechanisms of intersystem circulation of spatial and temporal resources and the transmission of abilities from one economic system to another, is proposed. On the basis of the obtained results, the most essential aspects of duality in the theory of economic systems are considered. It is shown that the interaction of internal content and the nearest external environment of economic systems lies in the nature of the relations of duality. A new approach to modeling the structure and to functioning of the economic system, based on the description of its activities in the form of two interconnected tetrads (the first tetrad reflects the intrasystem production cycle and the second one — the external realization-reproduction cycle) is put forward. It is shown that the concept of duality in a system economy creates prerequisites for adapting the functioning of local economic systems (objects, projects, etc.) in a market, administrative and functional environments and, as a result, harmonizing the economy as a whole.

Islamic and Jewish Religious Feminists Tackle Islamic and Jewish Oral Law: Maintenance and Rebellion of Wives

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-63
Author(s):  
Ruth Roded
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Parallel Case ◽  
First Time

Beginning in the early 1970s, Jewish and Muslim feminists, tackled “oral law”—Mishna and Talmud, in Judaism, and the parallel Hadith and Fiqh in Islam, and several analogous methodologies were devised. A parallel case study of maintenance and rebellion of wives —mezonoteha, moredet al ba?ala; nafaqa al-mar?a and nush?z—in classical Jewish and Islamic oral law demonstrates similarities in content and discourse. Differences between the two, however, were found in the application of oral law to daily life, as reflected in “responsa”—piskei halacha and fatwas. In modern times, as the state became more involved in regulating maintenance and disobedience, and Jewish law was backed for the first time in history by a state, state policy and implementation were influenced by the political system and socioeconomic circumstances of the country. Despite their similar origin in oral law, maintenance and rebellion have divergent relevance to modern Jews and Muslims.

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