8. Wiring the New West: The Strange Career of Public Power

The article deals with the fundamental, inherent in most of the countries of the world transformation of state power, its formation, functioning and division between the main branches as a result of the decentralization of such power, its subsidiarity. Attention is drawn to the specifics of state power, its func- tional features in the conditions of sovereignty of the states, their interconnec- tion. It is emphasized that the nature of the state power is connected with the nature of the political system of the state, with the form of government and many other aspects of a fundamental nature.It is analyzed that in the middle of national states the questions of legitima- cy, sovereignty of transparency of state power, its formation are acutely raised. Concerning the practical functioning of state power, a deeper study now needs a problem of separation of powers and the distribution of power. The use of this principle, which ensures the real subsidiarity of the authorities, the formation of more effective, responsible democratic relations between state power and civil society, is the first priority of the transformation of state power in the conditions of modern transformations of countries and societies. It is substantiated that the research of these problems will open up much wider opportunities for the provi- sion of state power not as a center authority, but also as a leading political structure but as a power of the people and the community. In the context of global democratization processes, such processes are crucial for a more humanistic and civilized arrangement of human life. It is noted that local self-government, as a specific form of public power, is also characterized by an expressive feature of a special subject of power (territorial community) as a set of large numbers of people; joint communal property; tax system, etc.

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The Public Power Spillover in Technology Markets Does it Leave Room for Any Competition?

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2873359 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Vlad Dan Roman

Keyword(s):

Public Power ◽

Technology Markets ◽

The Public

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Urban Landscapes and Sites of Power

10.1093/oso/9780198717737.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Oldfield

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscapes ◽

Public Power ◽

Capital Cities ◽

Urban Buildings ◽

Political Function ◽

Construction Activity

This chapter assesses how works of praise valued urban buildings and layouts, and places this type of praise into the context of a boom in construction activity in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries which changed the visage of many cities. It explores some of the built structures that dominate panegyric, like circuit walls, gates, and towers. Religious infrastructure is also central to these works of praise, but they are examined in Chapter 3 and so here we look primarily at ‘secular’ buildings. The chapter will finally consider how urban panegyric engaged with the development of cities as they crystallized into metropolises and asserted their political function as centres of public power both within wider polities (as ‘quasi-capital’ cities) and as autonomous entities in their own right.

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Sovereignty, the Corporate Religious, and Jurisdictional/Political Pluralism

10.1093/oso/9780198794394.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jean L. Cohen

Keyword(s):

Public Authority ◽

Popular Sovereignty ◽

Modern State ◽

Public Power ◽

Political Pluralism ◽

Social Democratic ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Power Rule ◽

Important Challenge ◽

Principles Of Justice

We typically associate sovereignty with the modern state, and the coincidence of worldly powers of political rule, public authority, legitimacy, and jurisdiction with territorially delimited state authority. We are now also used to referencing liberal principles of justice, social-democratic ideals of fairness, republican conceptions of non-domination, and democratic ideas of popular sovereignty (democratic constitutionalism) for the standards that constitute, guide, limit, and legitimate the sovereign exercise of public power. This chapter addresses an important challenge to these principles: the re-emergence of theories and claims to jurisdictional/political pluralism on behalf of non-state ‘nomos groups’ within well-established liberal democratic polities. The purpose of this chapter is to preserve the key achievements of democratic constitutionalism and apply them to every level on which public power, rule, and/or domination is exercised.

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The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

10.1093/oso/9780198813088.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Ben Clift

Keyword(s):

Global Financial Crisis ◽

Full Employment ◽

Real Economy ◽

Economic Stability ◽

Public Power ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Regulatory Interventions ◽

The Stability ◽

The Global Financial Crisis ◽

The Imf

The IMF uses crisis-defining economic ideas, and crisis legacy-defining ideas, to construct interpretations of economic crises in ways which prioritize particular policy or institutional responses, and rule out or marginalize others. The post-crash IMF enjoyed scope to shift the boundaries of ‘legitimate’ policy, involving heightened appreciation of ‘non-linear’ threats from losses of confidence, prolonged weak demand, and financial system fragilities and contagion. The policy corollaries of this Fund rethink were that economic stability has to be actively pursued through a wider range of policy and regulatory interventions by governments, central banks, the IMF, and other forms of authority and public power. In the context of the Great Recession, the Fund no longer considered it safe to assume an inherent tendency on the part of unfettered market forces in finance and the real economy to deliver the stability and full employment at the heart of its mandate.

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