The End of the Social Pact (1981–2018)

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-202
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Social Pact

The Renegotiation of the Social Pact in Hong Kong: Economic Globalisation, Socio-economic Change, and Local Politics

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZA W. Y. LEE
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Pact ◽  
Economic Globalisation

This article discusses the politics of social policy development in Hong Kong following the Asian financial crisis. It examines the cause, mode and political significance of social policy reform in an Asian late industrialiser that has been experiencing the twin pressures of economic globalisation and socio-economic change. Financial austerity has prompted the state to adopt social policy reforms through re-commodification and cost containment, resulting in the retrenchment of the residual welfare state. The state's policy choices are structured by local politics, including the state of political development and the path dependence nature of policy change. The article questions the effectiveness of the social authoritarian approaches adopted by the state in attempting to renegotiate the social pact with its citizens, and contends that progressive development in social policy is inevitably bound to democratisation.

Putting security at the heart of the European social pact – proposals to make flexicurity more balanced

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Vielle ◽  
Jean-Michel Bonvin
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
General Interest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Pact ◽  
Services Of General Interest ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
New Instruments ◽  
The Eu

The concept of flexicurity opens up new avenues for rethinking our approach to social integration and security for Europe's citizens. In the current European debate, however, flexicurity is out of balance on two levels: it leans too far towards flexibility at the expense of security, and it is too focused on the labour market (and increasing employment rates) at the expense of other aspects of quality of life. This article suggests ways to rebalance flexicurity, giving more substance to ‘security’. In particular it proposes that, in addition to the mutualisation typically found in conventional social security strategies, services of general interest and time and space policies should also be developed. It recommends the negotiation of a new social pact in which all partners (not just the social partners) should have their say. The conclusion highlights the particular role of the EU in promoting harmonising measures and establishing new instruments for security and different ways of approaching public funding and investment.

The “Social Pact” as Anti-Inflationary Policy: The Argentine Experience Since 1973

1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Ayres
Keyword(s):  
Labor Union ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Pact ◽  
Economic Considerations

Inflation has long been a fact of economic and political life in Argentina. The Peronist government which assumed office in mid-1973 attempted to control inflation through the so-called Social Pact, a wage-price agreement of two years’ duration involving the leading labor union organization, a leading businessmen's organization, and the Argentine state. An awareness of the principal issues of the economic situation is essential to an understanding of the crisis of contemporary Argentina, and a description of the evolution of the Social Pact reveals some of the essential contours of the economic debate. But the importance of the Social Pact extends beyond mere economic considerations. The study of the latest Argentine experience with anti-inflationary policy suggests some generalizations about the nature of populist political movements, the symbolic functions of economic policy initiatives, and the functions of such policies in co-opting private economic actors and legitimating governmental interference with free market forces. It also reveals some important characteristics of Argentine politics, especially concerning relations between the state and private economic groups. With economic and political implications of comparative significance, the Argentine Social Pact is an important case study in political economy.

scholarly journals Justicia asertiva y empatía institucional

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Rubén Darío Restrepo Rodríguez ◽  
Alex Rodrigo Coll
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Decision ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Pact

El presente propone un camino diferente a la noción de justicia que agrega el concepto de asertividad en la praxis de la justicia institucional con el objetivo de que en la decisión judicial se produzcan el entendimiento y reconocimiento entre la institucionalidad judicial y los usuarios o coasociados del pacto social de Colombia, ausente o tenue hasta ahora. Para ello, se recurrió a la empatía como herramienta de sensibilización entre la decisión judicial y la demanda de justicia, sin dejar de lado los puntos de encuentro que anteceden la determinación deóntica de la justicia.  Abstract This paper proposes a different path to the notion of justice, adding the concept o  assertiveness in the praxis of institutional justice with the objective that in judicial decision understanding and recognition between the judicial institution and the users or co-associated with the social pact of Colombia –absent or tenuous until now– produces itself. To do this, empathy was used as a tool to raise awareness between the judicial decision and the demand for justice, without neglecting the meeting points that preceded the deontic determination of justice. 

scholarly journals El Corte Epistemológico en Una Teoria Filosófica Sobre la Politica

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (38) ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
William Daros ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Pact

The philosophical point of view of Rawls is here analysed; and how Rawls’s philosophical position implies an epistemological cut with the classical conceptions that were joining the social contract to a determined natural idea of man or of society. In his proposal, the idea of Justice, in a society, is established in the fact that men accomplish a social pact fireely in itself, with another reasonable men, using various goods, and possessing equal politic rights. Rawls prefers not to choose the disjunctive “freedom or equality”; but for the option enunciated like “freedom and justice”. Equality is not a value as such in itself, yet contingent upon the idea of Justice. Nevertheless this justice from his social point of view is a politic justice. This is constituted freely for the associates, with equal rights, in a pact. His conception is not revolutionary in order to solve injustices right now historically established, but a progressive conception that utilizes the freedom to advance toward a fair equality, and here is now examined.

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