The grain issue of 1565–1566. Policy making, public opinion, and the Common Good in the Habsburg Netherlands

2010 ◽  
pp. 171-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjan van Dixhoorn
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Santo Antônio: os governantes e a política

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (255) ◽  
pp. 616
Author(s):  
José Antônio de C. R. de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

A proximidade de eleições municipais dos brasileiros, dentre os quais um grande número é devoto de Santo Antônio, sugere buscar em Sermões deste santo subsídios que norteiem os formadores de opinião, os governantes, os candidatos e os próprios eleitores para que bem cumpram com seus respectivos deveres. Inspirando-se na Sagrada Escritura e no pensamento filosófico de perfil estóico-agostiniano, o Santo magistralmente nos fala e nos ensina a respeito da justiça, do bem-comum, da paz, da solidariedade, da responsabilidade e do compromisso social, coroados pela Caridade e cuja vivência resulta na construção do Reino nesta terra.Abstract: As the Brazilian municipal elections draw near and because so many Brazilians are devotees of Saint Anthony, this paper suggests that we should turn to the Saint’s Sermons in search of insights that could help public-opinion makers, rulers, candidates and the voters themselves to fulfill their respective duties well. Inspiring himself in the Sacred Scriptures and in a philosophical thought of Stoic-Augustinian nature, and with great mastery, the Saint speaks to us and teaches us about justice, the common good, peace, solidarity, responsibility and social commitment, all crowned by the virtue of Charity and the practice of which can lead to the building of the Kingdom in this earth.

scholarly journals Voters’ preferences for party representation: Promise-keeping, responsiveness to public opinion or enacting the common good

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Werner
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
Promise Keeping

The functioning of representative democracy is crucially dependent on the representative behaviour of political parties. Large parts of the party representation literature assume that voters expect parties to fulfil the promises of their election programs. What voters actually want from parties, however, remains largely unclear. Within the Australian context, this article investigates the preferences of voters regarding three ideal party representative styles: ‘promise keeping’; ‘focus on public opinion’; and ‘seeking the common good’. Using a novel survey tool, this study finds that voters value promise keeping highly when it is evaluated individually. However, they rate seeking the common good as most important when the three styles are directly compared. A multinomial logistic regression analysis shows that, in particular, voters who have been involved in party grassroots activities prefer promise keeping. These findings have wider implications for our understanding of how representative democracy can and should work.

Speaking for Islam

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-127
Author(s):  
Abdoulaye Sounaye
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
French Model

Unexpectedly, one of the marking features of democratization in Niger has been the rise of a variety of Islamic discourses. They focus on the separation between religion and the state and, more precisely, the way it is manifested through the French model of laïcité, which democratization has adopted in Niger. For many Muslim actors, laïcité amounts to a marginalization of Islamic values and a negation of Islam. This article present three voices: the Collaborators, the Moderates, and the Despisers. Each represents a trend that seeks to influence the state’s political and ideological makeup. Although the ulama in general remain critical vis-à-vis the state’s political and institutional transformation, not all of them reject the principle of the separation between religion and state. The Collaborators suggest cooperation between the religious authority and the political one, the Moderates insist on the necessity for governance to accommodate the people’s will and visions, and the Despisers reject the underpinning liberalism that voids religious authority and demand a total re-Islamization. I argue that what is at stake here is less the separation between state and religion than the modality of this separation and its impact on religious authority. The targets, tones, and justifications of the discourses I explore are evidence of the limitations of a democratization project grounded in laïcité. Thus in place of a secular democratization, they propose a conservative democracy based on Islam and its demands for the realization of the common good.

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