Interest Representation and Social Policy Making: Russian Veterans’ Organisations as Brokers between the State and Society

2018 ◽  
pp. 138-163
Author(s):  
Meri Kulmala ◽  
Anna Tarasenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The State ◽  
Interest Representation ◽  
State And Society

Reconsidering the state

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Kate Crowley ◽  
Jenny Stewart ◽  
Adrian Kay ◽  
Brian W. Head
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The State ◽  
Binary Choice ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Comparative Public Policy ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Public Policy Analysis

State-centred and society-centred explanations in comparative public policy analysis disagree markedly on the extent to which the state has autonomy or is essentially a clearing-house for outside forces. In this chapter, we reconsider the position of the state in policy studies by investigating the interactions and inter-dependency between the state and society rather than making a binary choice between state-centred and society-centred perspectives on governance. The core argument is that policy studies can improve its ability to apprehend the position of the state in dilemmas of contemporary policy-making by acknowledging that the state is, at once, both critical to collective action and reliant on crucial elements of societal support for its policy effectiveness. In such terms, governance is a useful label for the variety of ways in which society is not simply acted upon by the state, but actively shapes the actions of and outcomes of state activity.

scholarly journals MODEL INSTITUTIONS AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL REFORM IN EARLY VICTORIAN BRITAIN

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 789-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOM CROOK
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
Victorian Period

AbstractThis article reconsiders the nature and novelty of social reform in Britain during the early Victorian period. Historians have long ceased to debate the period in terms of a ‘revolution in government’, or the beginnings of a welfare state. Instead, the current consensus presents a picture of only modest, fitful change. Neither the state, nor the overall ideological landscape, was radically transformed. This article seeks to reinject a sense of transformative change back into these decades. It does so by examining a neglected facet of this otherwise richly served period of social reform: the formation and functioning of a series of self-styled ‘model’ institutions that spanned the fields of education, prisons, housing, and sanitation. In particular, what the use of these model institutions brings into sharp focus are the radical changes that occurred in the geography of social reform, which at this point began to develop according to multiple spatial relations, extending at once within and beyond Britain. Between them, they helped to engineer a truly cosmopolitan culture of social policy-making, which was both multi-directional – policies flowed outwards and inwards – and composed of multiple relations, national, imperial, and transnational.

scholarly journals Social policy governance mechanisms as a tool to ensure stability of the state and society

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 03016
Author(s):  
Antonina Chernykh ◽  
Elena Voskresenskaya ◽  
Marina Martynkevich
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Stable State ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Technological World ◽  
Social Management

The article is devoted to the consideration of social and legal problems of building a stable state system in a situation of constant challenges of the modern technological world. The purpose of building the mechanisms of state social policy is to ensure social stability of society as the basis for economic development. The authors believe that the construction of a sustainable management system for the state's social policy is impossible without a comprehensive scientific understanding of the legal foundations of its functioning. One of the primary tasks of the scientific understanding of the system of social management is the awareness and fixation of public demand and social requirements for the value foundations of public administration. The second indispensable task is to assess the state of the legal system for regulating new socio-economic and legal relations of subjects within society.

scholarly journals Accounting as an information base for the social policy implementation in the company’s management

2017 ◽  
pp. 125-137
Author(s):  
Iryna Ometsinska
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Social Expenditures

The article considers the economic essence of the concepts of social accounting, sociallyoriented accounting, and social activity. It is found that carrying out social activities requires incurring social costs, which are presumably understood as the reduction of economic benefits in the form of disposal of assets and increase in obligations related to the implementation of company’s social policy. These expenditures result in a decrease in equity (except for a reduction in capital due to its withdrawal or distribution by the owners) within the operational, financial or investment activities of the enterprise. It is stated that depending on the trends, social expenditures should be divided into: personnel costs (wages and salaries (basic, extra, financial rewards and compensation payments), labor protection and occupational safety, personnel training and development, maintaining company’s social facilities); customer costs (warranty service, product quality assurance); state and society costs (taxes, charity donations, regional development programs, support for sports and cultural activities); natural environment protection costs (environmental and ecological payments). The need to display information on social costs in management and financial reporting is confirmed. In this regard, it is proposed to use the management reporting form called “A Statement on Social Expenditures” and the form from section XVI named “Directions of social policies” of the Notes to the annual financial statements, whose items are arranged in four categories: personnel, environment; state and society; customers. It is pointed out that the publication of social reporting has certain advantages for enterprises (a higher credibility from special interest groups; better relations with the state; attracting investments; better business reputation; gaining a competitive advantage; making sound decisions in pursuing social policies) and for the state and society (encouraging socially responsible business; efficient use of resources; drawing attention to sustainable development; information transparency). The need for state regulation of social reporting in Ukraine is emphasized, and it is claimed that the lack of it brings into question reliability and validity of the information provided by enterprises in such reporting.

Историософия русского сознания в творческом консерватизме Л.А. Тихомирова. Об упущенных возможностях национально-государственного развития России в начале ХХ века

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 613-620
Author(s):  
Igor N. Tyapin
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian History ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Working Out

The author of the article uses the works of L.A. Tikhomirov as the basis when examining the problem of criticism of the conditions of the state and society in monarchic Russia during the last decade of its existence from the part of the conservative figures who not only advocated the necessity to preserve the autocracy but also substantially contributed to the working out of the main principles of Russian social development. In particular, the “creative conservators” managed to accomplish the deep philosophic conceptualization of Russian history while trying to find the previously lost ideal of social organization. Tikhomirov’s relevant concepts of the mutual conditionality of Russian national consciousness underdevelopment and state degradation, as well as of the necessity to realize the model of the moral state of justice on the basis of the national idea, were not accepted by the bureaucratic system that resulted before long in the collapse of Russian monarchic state.

State-Minority Contestations in Post-colonial Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
Mansoor Mohamed Fazil
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Research Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Force ◽  
State Structure ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Military

Abstract This research focuses on the issue of state-minority contestations involving transforming and reconstituting each other in post-independent Sri Lanka. This study uses a qualitative research method that involves critical categories of analysis. Migdal’s theory of state-in-society was applied because it provides an effective conceptual framework to analyse and explain the data. The results indicate that the unitary state structure and discriminatory policies contributed to the formation of a minority militant social force (the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – The LTTE) which fought with the state to form a separate state. The several factors that backed to the defeat of the LTTE in 2009 by the military of the state. This defeat has appreciably weakened the Tamil minority. This study also reveals that contestations between different social forces within society, within the state, and between the state and society in Sri Lanka still prevail, hampering the promulgation of inclusive policies. This study concludes that inclusive policies are imperative to end state minority contestations in Sri Lanka.

THE IMAGE OF AN ACTIVE WOMAN IN THE SPIRITUAL HERITAGE OF EASTERN THINKERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Feruza Davronova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Active Woman ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Family

The purpose of this article is to study the image of socio-political activity of women, their role and importance in the life of the state and society.In this, we referred to the unique books of orientalists and studied their opinions and views on this topic. The article considers the socio-political activity of women, their role in the state and society, the role of the mother in the family and raising a child, oriental culture, national and spiritual values, traditions and social significance of women

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