scholarly journals Duality of the Electoral and Legal Culture and Political Communication in the Elections of the Landtag of Prussia (1849–1918)

Legal Concept ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Yuri Bokov ◽  
Erwin Akhverdiev

Introduction: based on a wide range of historical sources about the elections of the Landtag of Prussia in 1849–1918, an attempt is made to examine the electoral and legal culture through the prism of political communication. The aim of the research is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the communication processes and the level of electoral and legal culture of Prussian residents in 1849–1918. Results: the paper substantiates the conclusion that the study of political culture should not be limited to the analysis of the level of participation, but it is necessary to equally study political behavior in a very broad sense, since both are inextricably linked. On the example of the election campaigns to the Landtag of Prussia in 1849–1918 it is noted that the rejection of the current situation in the state leads to a decrease in the level of public participation in the elections, while low turnout is not always a consequence of an insufficient level of electoral and legal culture. Conclusions: the political and legal culture of the inhabitants of Prussia, their legendary habit of observing the law, had a decisive influence on the choice of the type of political communication. The Prussians, preferring legal forms of political communication, thereby confirmed their faith in the law, in the institution of elections. Political communication should not be limited to periodic voting. Citizens should be given the rights to influence the functioning of the state. If these requirements are not met, the legal types of political communication, even with a sufficiently high level of legal culture of the population, are replaced by semi-legal and illegal ones, and the reformist mode of activity of political forces is changed to a revolutionary one.

Author(s):  
Yana ISHCHENKO

The structure and dynamics of equity capital are the basis for determining the indicators that characterize the financial position and financial sustainability of the enterprise. Information support for the effective management of the company's own capital is formed, mainly, by the system of accounting and financial reporting. Reliable and complete coverage of the financial statements of information on the size and composition of equity capital is fundamental for an objective assessment of the financial status and efficiency of the enterprise and for making further decisions by owners, investors, creditors and other users of information. Over the past few years, some changes have been made in the way in which the equity of the enterprise is reflected in the accounting, which requires detailed analysis and evaluation of changes to find ways to improve the accounting of equity capital of the enterprise. The purpose of this publication is to study the legal regulation of the formation and accounting of equity, in particular in limited liability companies, as well as the development of organizational principles of its accounting. Financial independence of the enterprise and other indicators of the financial state directly depends from the complete and clear legal regulation of accounting of equity capital by enterprises of various organizational and legal forms, the effectiveness of the information management of capital formation, profit distribution, dividend and other corporate rights. The normative regulation of the accounting of own capital in Ukraine at the state level (macro level) and at the level of economic entities (micro level) is investigated. From June 17, 2018, the new Law on Limited Liability and Additional Liability Companies came into force. The fundamental change in the regulation of the activities of economic entities of such organizational and legal forms leads to the need to amend its constituent documents and internal accounting regulations. Changes made in accordance with the Law concerning the formation of the authorized capital of the companies with limited liability and additional liability are considered. An exemplary section of the order on the accounting policy that will regulate the accounting of own capital is designed and offered for practical use by limited liability companies. The formation of such section will allow the reconciliation of the accounting policies and constituent documents in order to meet the interests of users in accounting for equity capital. After all, the proper formation of accounting policies is an important element of internal regulation of the formation and accounting of equity, contributes to improving the completeness and reliability of information about the financial condition of the enterprise. Based on the study of legal regulation of formation and accounting of equity in limited liability companies, it was found that at the macro level the state regulates only certain aspects of these processes. Moreover, there remains a wide range of variability in the selection of organizational and methodological approaches to accounting of equity capital. This, in turn, provides the opportunity for the owners of the companies to choose the optimal alternative accounting option for this particular entity, taking into account the specifics of its activities. The main internal regulations of enterprises regulating the issues of formation, use and accounting of own capital are the statute and order on accounting policy. The research revealed shortcomings in the formation of norms as a charter and an order on accounting policies of limited liability companies in respect of own capital. Proposed changes to the specified internal regulations of limited liability companies, which will bring their norms in line with the norms of legislation, in particular with the norms of the Law of Ukraine "On Limited Liability Companies" of 22.06.2018, № 2275-VIII, and will allow to obtain full, relevant , unbiased information about equity capital for all the interested parties.


2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Donaghy

This article adopts a sociolegal perspective in analysing the sociological conditions underpinning the emergence of a bank confidentiality law in the 'offshore' financial centre of Monaco. It utilizes three analytical distinctions in approaching the social, legal and political dimensions of the law and moves beyond superficial claims that Monaco's proposed law merely represents a codification of hitherto informal principles and practices. Issues surrounding the globalization of Monaco's banking market and its effects upon the legal culture of confidentiality are explored. However, changes in the legal culture of offshore financial centres should not be equated with an erosion of the state, which is shown to play a constitutive role in sociolegal transformations. In the final section of the article, the implications of the discussion for the sociolegal dimensions of offshore financial centres are drawn out, offering a blueprint for future comparative study on the legal cultures of globalized financial centres.


Author(s):  
Alycia Sandra Dinar Andhini

Legal Aid is organized to help resolve legal issues faced by Legal Aid Recipients. The birth of Law No. 16 of 2011 concerning Legal Aid provides new hope for the poor to gain access to justice and equality before the law. This writing aims to determine the implementation of the provision of legal aid and the obstacles that influence it in its implementation because sometimes the implementation of Law Number 16 of 2011 concerning Legal Aid in Indonesian Courts is not optimal. This research focuses on the application of legal aid to the poor, the challenges and problems they face. The method used in this research is empirical research. This study found that in the application of legal aid in several regions in Indonesia, the main problem faced in addition to the lack of availability of accredited legal aid institutions, was also the issue of the budget provided by the state. In addition, in terms of the legal culture of the community, the implementation of legal aid is not optimal due to the understanding of the community not to have anything to do with the law so that many cases that should receive legal assistance cannot be accompanied.  


Introduction: Improving the legal literacy and legal awareness of citizens is an integral part of building a democratic state. One of the ways to this improvement is the development of legal culture as an integrated nationwide program, covering all segments of the population, especially youth and students of all education levels. Methods: In the new conditions of the Russian Federation’s state system, the foreground task is to form a general legal culture, as well as to develop practical skills of students in vocational education institutions. Legal culture is a universal, basic component of professional training in any field. Results: Legal education and training are intended to solve the problem of forming a legal culture of students. The content of legal culture should not only be reflected in the Law course and other educational subjects comprising elements of legislation studies, but it should also develop opinions and attitudes of students to the law implementation in general. In the process of legal education in vocational education institutions, consideration of age and individual characteristics requires not just passive adaptation of the material and methods to the characteristics of students, but their active development in accordance with the general goal of forming legal awareness. Discussion: To be involved in efficient legal education, students must know the requirements of civil society for every individual and their own capacities, see their negative and positive traits, objectively evaluate them, avoid underestimating or overestimating their abilities and capacities, level of aspirations. Conclusion: The development of vocational education in modern conditions provides opportunities for increasing the importance and relevance of legal culture. The high level of legal culture has a positive influence on the development of personality and professional activities of graduates and on the harmonization of interrelations in society


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Georg Plavec

What’s wrong with political communication in the EU? Should Brussels be seen as a bubble or rather as a kind of modern Babylon? This is the first study to analyse the communication culture in Brussels. Based on a survey of more than 300 EU politicians and correspondents, it assesses the basic attitudes of the elites at the core of the EU’s communication processes. The study reveals a surprisingly high level of shared beliefs among Brussels-based politicians and journalists, and analyses the structures which—contrary to these findings—stand in the way of stronger Europeanisation of political communication in the EU. The results indicate new ways to tackle the EU’s long-bemoaned shortcomings with regard to communication.


1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Joseph Schubert

AbstractS-R theorists formulate psychological laws in terms of the relationship between external events and observed behavior. The state of the organism delimits the applicability of the law. Dynamic theorists formulate psychological laws in terms of the relationship between the initial state of the organism Oa and its subsequent state On. The significance of the stimulus is determined by .Oa and the principle of equifinality implies the equivalence of a wide range of behaviors by which On may be reached. It is maintained that regardless of the methodological difficulties inherent in a theory which is based on variables that cannot be observed directly, dynamic theory is testable in principle and in practice. It is suggested that recent neurophysiological theory is incompatible with an S-R approach.


2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (04) ◽  
pp. 1224-1230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assaf Likhovski

This essay on Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947 (2014) focuses on the relationship between certain minorities and the law of the state. It seeks to expand the discussion found in Sharafi's book in three directions: first, by comparing the attitude of Parsis in South Asia to the law of the state with the attitude of German Jewish immigrants in mandatory Palestine and Israel to state law; second, by asking whether the Parsis' embracing of state law was linked to their economic success; and, finally, by pointing to the nature of law itself as a “minority discourse.”


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-278
Author(s):  
Samy Ayoub

This article investigates the impact of the state on the legal order through an examination of authoritative Ḥanafī legal works from the 17th and 18th centuries CE. By focusing on the madhhab and its juristic discourse, I challenge the reigning narrative in Islamic legal studies by demonstrating how late Ḥanafī jurists assigned value and authority to Ottoman state orders and edicts. This increasing state authority is reflected in the state’s ability to settle juristic disputes, to order jurists and judges to adopt specific opinions in their legal determinations, and to establish its orders as authoritative and final reference points. The incorporation of state orders within authoritative Ḥanafī legal commentaries, treatises, and fatwā collections was made possible by a turn in Ḥanafī legal culture that embraced the indispensability of the state in the law-making process.



Author(s):  
Valeriy P. Petkov ◽  

The article outlines the problems of forming the legal culture of a lawyer, as an urgent requirement of the present, since the professional principles of lawyers must meet the highest moral values of society, and reliably defend the violated right, the successful solution of urgent problems of the state process directly depends on their professionalism. The level of development of any legal culture of society reflects the general conditions of legal consciousnesses, which are manifested through the implementation of legal activity, legal behavior. Today in Ukraine a high level of legal culture is not observed only among the ordinary citizen, but quite often it is not enough even for legislators, political leaders, heads of public organizations. It was found that the legal culture of a lawyer combines knowledge of legislation and the possibilities of legal science, the conviction of the necessity and social usefulness of laws and regulations, the ability to use legal instruments � laws and other legal acts in everyday activities, to resort to the use of all the achievements of legal science and practice when making and the design of solutions. The necessity is theoretically substantiated: to define a model of a specialist-lawyer and, as its component, a personality model and a training model. The specialist model must meet the requirements of the legal professional of the future; systematization and structuring of education not only by the level of education, but also by branches of law. The standard of legal education, the curricula of higher and secondary educational institutions should be optimized in terms of the structure and content of the relevant branch of law; when training law managers, it is necessary to take into account the shift in the meaning and goals of education towards the idea of self-expression and full disclosure of the capabilities and abilities of the individual; the paradigm shift of education from �education for life� to �education throughout life�. Thus, a law graduate must have professional knowledge, be convinced of their social feasibility and usefulness, be able to apply them in their professional activities, and strive for continuous self-improvement, because a high level of professional culture of a lawyer is an urgent requirement today. Because the professional culture of legal professionals directly affects the successful solution of pressing problems of the state-building process.


2020 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
O.M. Kipcharskyi

The article discloses the essence and legal foundations of state control over the activities of the Judicial Security Service and covers the main theoretical and legal problems in this area. The author examines the approaches of domestic scientists to the essence of the concept of control and state control in the field of justice. It has been established that scientists consider state control in a narrow sense as control of the executive authorities. However, the state control over the Judicial Security Service is carried out by the State Judicial Administration – a state body in the justice system that belongs to the judicial branch of government, therefore it exercises state control. Thus, the concept of state control goes beyond the limits of the activities of executive authorities, requires analysis and further research. The article analyzes the legal acts regulating the powers of the subjects exercising state control over the Judicial Security Service. It has been determined that the main subject of state control over the activities of the Judicial Security Service is the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine. It has been established that the High Council of Justice is a control and oversight body in the field of justice with a wide range of functions and powers and directly acts as a subject of state control in relation to the Judicial Security Service. It is concluded that state control over the activities of the Judicial Security Service is a system of organizational and legal forms of ensuring compliance with the principle of the rule of law, the fulfillment of tasks, and the implementation of managerial decisions in the activities of the Judicial Security Service, which is carried out on the basis and within the framework of the legislation by the State Judicial Administration and the Supreme Council of Justice to ensure the safety and independence of the court.


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