Ordnungsökonomik als angewandte Wissenschaft. Zur notwendigen Zusammenführung von Theorie und Praxis / Constitutional Economics as an Applied Social Science. About the Essential Combination of Theory and Practice On the

ORDO ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Lenger ◽  
Nils Goldschmidt

ZusammenfassungZunehmend ist die sinkende wissenschaftliche Bedeutung der Ordnungsökonomik zu beklagen. Ursache hierfür sind u.a. theorieimmanente Bedingungen des ordnungsökonomischen Forschungsprogramms, die die praktische wirtschafts- und insbesondere sozialpolitische Anwendung erschweren. Der Beitrag befasst sich mit diesen theorieimmanenten Problemen und zeigt auf, dass zur Überwindung dieser Schwierigkeiten eine dynamische, auf fortdauernde Zustimmung ausgerichtete ordnungsökonomische Perspektive benötigt wird und dass das konkrete, rekursive Zusammenspiel einzelner Handelns- und Regelebenen in den Blick genommen werden muss. Daran anknüpfend wird die Konzeption einer modernen Ordnungsökonomik diskutiert, für die die Akzeptanz sozialer Ungleichheit unabdingbar ist und die sich an der Idee der Inklusion zu orientieren hat. Vor diesem Hintergrund muss aus einer Ordnungspolitik, die sich aus der Theorie ableitet, eine Ordnungstheorie werden, die sich immer wieder an der Praxis zu messen hat.

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (04) ◽  
pp. 881-917
Author(s):  
John Hagan ◽  
Richard Brooks ◽  
Todd Haugh

Internal and international conflicts can often involve a level of impunity that allows sexual violence to persist unchecked by military and political leaders. The recent reversal by an appeals panel at the International Criminal Court of a pretrial decision not to charge President al‐Bashir of Sudan with genocide in Darfur offers an important foundation for introducing new types of evidence that can increase the investigation and prosecution of sexual violence during conflicts. The reversal cited the incorrect use of the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard when the lesser standard of “reasonable grounds” applied. Social science provides methods and measures that can be uniquely used to develop reasonable grounds evidence, for example, to demonstrate the roles of physical perpetrators acting together in horizontal relationships, as well as to establish the indirect participation through vertical relationships of higher‐level defendants, in a chain of command of superior responsibility. We illustrate these points by presenting social science evidence of the responsibility of President al‐Bashir and middle‐ and lower‐level figures in genocidal violence in Darfur.


1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 457-470
Author(s):  
John Pinder

THE 1950s WERE A WONDERFUL DECADE FOR APPLIED SOCIAL science: for the belief that reason addressed to economic and social problems can improve the human condition. Compare the 1950s with the 1930s and ask how much of the improvement was due to Keynes and Beveridge. It is inevitable that a generation of debunkers should follow whose answer would be ‘not much’. But that would have seemed a strange conclusion in the 1950s; and the view of the 1950s was surely right. We had full employment in place of 10 per cent unemployment in the 1920s and nearly 15 per cent in the 1930s; and after the first years of post-war reconstruction, it was reasonable to attribute this to Keynesian demand management. We had a safety net through which relatively few fell into poverty; and this was Beveridge's social security and the welfare state.


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