Umverteilungspolitik am Anfang?

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walther Otremba
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Structural Reform ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Top Performers

AbstractThere has been a shift in the public debate in Germany: following years of structural reform, aspects of redistribution of wealth and equality of income have become more important. However, this focus on social justice ignores the facts about the development of incomes in Germany. It also underestimates the negative effects of redistribution on incentives for economic activity. Instead of engaging in debates about redistribution of wealth, we should be reducing the pressures, particularly on the middle classes and on top performers. A policy for growth is essential. German economic policy should not be deflected from its course.

scholarly journals PARE0014 CANNABIS – HOW TO NAVIGATE BETWEEN PRESSURE FROM PATIENTS, LEGISLATION AND NEED FOR EVIDENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 1293.1-1293
Author(s):  
N. B. Hartz
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Medical Cannabis ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
National Project ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patient Organizations ◽  
Independent Information ◽  
Patients Experience

Background:Around the world, focus on cannabis has been increasing immensely the last couple of years. Patients with RMD very often experience pain and many of these patients do not get adequate relieve from ordinary painkillers. Therefore, the pressure from patients wanting to try cannabis in order to ease their pain, is very understandable but also a difficult field to navigate in for a rheumatism association. Mainly because there are so many different interests in cannabis from many sides.Objectives:The Danish Rheumatism Association has taken a very active role in unfolding knowledge of the positive and negative effects of cannabis to patients with RMD. We want to show, that we are aware of our patients needs and interests and we wish to give independent information to patients with RMD about suitable pain relief also when this involves the use of cannabis.Methods:In order to get more knowledge about the need of the patients, the Danish Rheumatism Association has registered every inquiry from patients to our professional helpline in 2018 regarding cannabis. This information has been used in our political work with the Danish Ministry of Health and has given us a deeper understanding of the RMD-patients background and motivation for using cannabis.The Danish Rheumatism Association has supported cannabis research financially, and we have taken part in the public debate with editorials. On our website, we have fact sheets regarding cannabis along with a theme about cannabis in our magazine. The Danish Rheumatism Association has been very active politically in order to get RMD-patients to be part of a national project with medical cannabis to different groups of patients. We have an ongoing contact with the Danish Ministry of Health regarding RMD-patients experience in using cannabis and we pass on RMD-patients difficulties in even getting cannabis legally. In addition, to continuously gain knowledge about RMD-patients’ experience with cannabis, we have also conducted questionnaires and surveys both in collaboration with other patient organizations and through our own channels.Results:We have made it clear that we take an active role in the public debate regarding the use of cannabis and that we understand the desire from patients to have as many options as possible to choose from when it comes to relieve their pain. However, we also acknowledge the fact, that we need more evidence when it comes to the use of cannabis as an actual option for patients with RMD-related pain. We are a reliable partner that politicians and other stakeholders take very seriously.Unfortunately, patients with RMD did not get to be part of the national project in Denmark with medical cannabis, but nevertheless many of these patients are using cannabis and most of the patients buy it illegally.Conclusion:The use of cannabis is still a very “hot topic” in many countries and the legislation can vary a lot from country to country. It is important that the rheumatism associations across Europe have knowledge about cannabis so that they can advise patients with RMD in a serious, objective and evidence-based manner.References:NoneDisclosure of Interests:None declared

‘Everything Belongs to God’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Rech
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wealth Redistribution ◽  
Social Teachings

This chapter examines and contextualizes Sayyid Qutb’s doctrine of property and social justice, which he articulated at a time of deep social conflicts in Egypt. The chapter describes how Qutb, along with other writers concerned with economic inequality in the 1920s–40s such as Hasan al-Banna (1906–1949) and Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri (1895–1971), conceptualised private ownership as a form of power that must be limited by religious obligations and subordinated to the public good. The chapter further shows that Qutb made this notion of restrained property central to a broader theory of social justice and wealth redistribution by combining the social teachings of the Qur’an with the modern ideal of the centralized interventionist state. Arguably this endeavour to revitalise the Quranic roots of Islamic charity and simultaneously appropriate the discourse of modern statehood made Qutb’s position oscillate between legalism and anti-legalism.

The SORS Decision-Making Support System: A statistical tool for better policy making in the Republic of Serbia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Miladin Kovačević ◽  
Katarina Stančić
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
System A ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Trusted Data

Modern society is witnessing a data revolution which necessarily entails changes to the overall behavior of citizens, governments and companies. This is a big challenge and an opportunity for National Statistics Offices (NSOs). Especially after the outbreak of COVID-19, when the public debate about the number of mortalities and tested and infected persons escalated, trusted data is required more than ever. Which data can modern society trust? Are modern societies being subjected to opinion rather than fact? This paper introduces a new statistical tool to facilitate policy-making based on trusted statistics. Using economic indicators to illustrate implementation, the new statistical tool is shown to be a flexible instrument for analysis, monitoring and evaluation of the economic situation in the Republic of Serbia. By taking a role in public policy management, the tool can be used to transform the NSO’s role in the statistical system into an active participant in public debate in contrast to the previous traditional, usually passive role of collecting, processing and publishing data. The tool supports the integration of statistics into public policies and connects the knowledge and expertise of official statisticians on one side with political decision makers on the other.

scholarly journals Trusting the Corona-Warn-App? Contemplations on trust and trustworthiness at the intersection of technology, politics and public debate

2021 ◽  
pp. 026732312110283
Author(s):  
Judith Simon ◽  
Gernot Rieder
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Moral Duties ◽  
Moral Demands

Ever since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, questions of whom or what to trust have become paramount. This article examines the public debates surrounding the initial development of the German Corona-Warn-App in 2020 as a case study to analyse such questions at the intersection of trust and trustworthiness in technology development, design and oversight. Providing some insights into the nature and dynamics of trust and trustworthiness, we argue that (a) trust is only desirable and justified if placed well, that is, if directed at those being trustworthy; that (b) trust and trustworthiness come in degrees and have both epistemic and moral components; and that (c) such a normatively demanding understanding of trust excludes technologies as proper objects of trust and requires that trust is directed at socio-technical assemblages consisting of both humans and artefacts. We conclude with some lessons learned from our case study, highlighting the epistemic and moral demands for trustworthy technology development as well as for public debates about such technologies, which ultimately requires attributing epistemic and moral duties to all actors involved.

Social inclusion, a challenge for deliberative democracy? Some reflections on Habermas’s political theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 136843102098378
Author(s):  
Isabelle Aubert
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Iris Marion Young ◽  
Alexander Kluge ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Nancy Fraser ◽  
Theory Of Democracy

This article explains how the issue of inclusion is central to Habermas’s theory of democracy and how it is deeply rooted in his conception of a political public sphere. After recalling Habermas’s views on the public sphere, I present and discuss various objections raised by other critical theorists: Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth and Iris Marion Young. These criticisms insist on the paradoxically excluding effects of a conception of democracy that promotes civic participation in the public debate. Negt, Kluge and Fraser develop a Marxist line of analysis that question who can participate in the public sphere. Honneth and Young criticize in various ways the excluding effect of argumentation: are unargumentative speeches excluded from the public debate? I show how Habermas’s model can provide some responses to these various objections by drawing inspiration from his treatment of the gap between religious and post-metaphysical world views.

scholarly journals The Nexus of Sophisticated Digital Assets with Economic Policy Uncertainty: A Survey of Empirical Findings and an Empirical Investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5383
Author(s):  
Nikolaos A. Kyriazis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Threshold Arch ◽  
Best Fit ◽  
Digital Assets

This paper sets out to explore the nexus between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and digital currencies. An integrated survey takes place based on eleven primary studies. Furthermore, an econometric analysis is conducted by the threshold ARCH, simple asymmetric ARCH and non-linear ARCH specifications covering the bull and the bear markets as well as the highly volatile period up to the present. Threshold ARCH is found to provide the best fit for estimations. Outcomes reveal that Bitcoin is strongly connected with EPU while Ethereum and Litecoin are not but are strongly linked with Bitcoin performance. Moreover, weak negative effects of the VIX on both cryptocurrencies are detected while oil exerts weak positive impacts on Ethereum. Overall, Ethereum and Litecoin could serve for diversifiers against Bitcoin or hedgers against traditional assets during highly stressed periods with the advantage of not being affected by economic policy uncertainty news.

scholarly journals Intellectual Freedom and Social Justice: Tensions Between Core Values in American Librarianship

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Emily J. M. Knox
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Hate Groups ◽  
Ethical Philosophy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

AbstractOver the past few years, tensions between two core values in U.S. librarianship, intellectual freedom and social justice, have roiled the profession. This conflict was most recently seen in the insertion and subsequent removal of “hate groups” to the list of entities that cannot be denied access to library meeting rooms in the American Library Association’s Meeting Rooms Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights. This paper is intended to provide context for this conflict. It begins by situating its arguments within ethical philosophy, specifically the study of values or axiology. It then provides an overview of the theoretical foundations of the values of liberalism. Next, the paper discusses the values of truth and freedom from harm in librarianship. Finally, it suggests that a fuller understanding of the library’s place within the public sphere is a possible model for mitigating the tensions currently found in American librarianship. The paper is intended to provide a theoretical foundation for further research.

scholarly journals Politics of citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic: what can educators do?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeela Arshad-Ayaz ◽  
M. Ayaz Naseem
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fault Lines

AbstractAs a once in a 100 years emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in repercussions for the economy, the polity, and the social. Also, the ongoing pandemic is as much a teaching moment as it to reflect on the lack of critical citizenship education. The fault lines of the health system have become visible in terms of infection and death rates; the fault lines of the educational system are now apparent in the behavior of the citizens who are flouting the public health guidelines and, in certain cases, actively opposing these guidelines. The main objective of this commentary is to initiate a dialogue on the social contract between the state and the subjects and to see how education and educators can respond to the challenge of the new normal. It is contended that education under the new normal cannot afford to keep educating for unbridled productivity education under the new normal. It must have welfare, human connections, ethical relationships, environmental stewardship, and social justice front and center.

100 Years of State Pension: Learning from the Past

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-501
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
State Pension

The President (Mr R. S. Bowie, F.F.A.): Tonight's topic is ‘100 years of state pension: — learning from the past’. I am reminded of the expression: why are the bankers so keen to find new ways of losing money when the old ways seem to have worked perfectly well!The state pension has been going in a recognisable form for only 100 years and only for the last 60 as a universal pension; and only for the last 30 years in the form that we all might recognise today.If the Actuarial Profession can bring value to something from the past, it is to bring a perspective and a context to it so that we can learn from it. In this way, the Profession can create an informed climate within which public debate on matters of public interest can take place. As you will all know, the Financial Reporting Council are pressing the Profession hard to give tangible evidence of its commitment to the public interest, and this book falls into that category, creating an informed background for debate on a matter of huge public interest.

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