Religion: nation-building instrument of the state or factor of civil society? The AKP Between State- and society-centered religious politics

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günter Seufert
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Politics ◽  
State And Society

Political Inclusion and the Dynamics of Democratization

1996 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Political Inclusion ◽  
Progressive Inclusion

Once universal adult citizenship rights have been secured in a society, democratization is mostly a matter of the more authentic political inclusion of different groups and categories, for which formal political equality can hide continued exclusion or oppression. It is important, however, to distinguish between inclusion in the state and inclusion in the polity more generally. Democratic theorists who advocate a strategy of progressive inclusion of as many groups as possible in the state fail to recognize that the conditions for authentic as opposed to symbolic inclusion are quite demanding. History shows that benign inclusion in the state is possible only when (a) a group's defining concern can be assimilated to an established or emerging state imperative, and (b) civil society is not unduly depleted by the group's entry into the state. Absent such conditions, oppositional civil society may be a better focus for democratization than is the state. A flourishing oppositional sphere, and therefore the conditions for democratization itself, may actually be facilitated by a passively exclusive state, the main contemporary form of which is corporatism. Benign inclusion in the state can sometimes occur, but any such move should also produce exclusions that both facilitate future democratization and guard against any reversal of democratic commitment in state and society. These considerations have substantial implications for the strategic choices of social movements.

scholarly journals Modern models of social partnership in Uzbekistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-161
Author(s):  
Alisher Muminov
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Effective Mechanism ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual

Currently, the special importance of social partnership is acknowledged as an effective mechanism for involving the general public in participation in the socio-political, socio-economic and cultural life of the country in Uzbekistan. In this regard, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sh.Mirziyoyev pointed out the need for consistent implementation: “the principle of mutual responsibility of citizens, the state and society, the connection of their rights and obligations. This principle serves as the basis for effective interaction between the state and the individual, the state and civil society in solving the important tasks facing our country. This article is devoted to the analysis of reforms aimed at the development of social partnership in Uzbekistan.

Revolutionary Law Abidance: Kachin Rebel Governance and the Adoption of ihl in Resistance to Myanmar State Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 872-904
Author(s):  
Alicia de la Cour Venning
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Field Research ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Rebel Governance ◽  
International Legal System

Although armed opposition actors are increasingly prevalent within contemporary conflicts, ethnographies seeking to understand and explain their relationship with international law are scarce. While scholars highlight the state-centric nature of international law, discussing at length how it privileges state over non-state actors, few examine the way rebels perceive and relate to the international legal system. Drawing on seven months of field research among Kachin civil society and the Kachin Independence Organisation / Army (kio/A), this article demonstrates how the kio/A’s nascent engagement with international law is being strategically pursued as part of a broader rebel governance project. Ethnographic research exposes the oft neglected rebel perspective. It reveals how rebels interact with international humanitarian norms as a means to facilitate and mediate relations with both local and international actors, in an attempt to promote nation building aspirations and thereby strengthen resistance to state violence.

scholarly journals State Governance in Ukraine: Structural Changes, Problems of Transition to Public Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr PERZHUN
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The State ◽  
State Management ◽  
Western Democracy ◽  
State And Society

Today, Ukraine is in dire need of changes and reforms that would lead to the optimization and effective management of society and the state. One of such important reforms is the transition from state to public management, and further improvement of the foundations and principles of public management. In the management of the state, where complex processes of transition to public management are taking place, there have always been advanced trends of deepening and expanding publicity in the activities of government institutions. This is the path taken by the "old" countries of Western democracy, as well as the countries of the post-socialist camp, the Baltic republics, which today have successfully joined the EU. Ukraine must follow this path if it tries to become a civilized part of the world. Hence, the system of state management should change dramatically, when the most appropriate in the management structure is an organic combination and effective interaction of public government and local self-government. Even more, the efficiency of civil society itself in the management of public affairs and state structures of power is growing. Socio-economic development and social-power relations at the present stage are already experiencing more and more new changes, both positive and negative. They are becoming very important for the state and society. Being complex and ambiguous, such developments and relations require introduction at the legislative and political levels of new governance systems and structures, which would involve mandatory involvement of the most active representatives of civil society in governance. Note that the period of transition to public management is complex, full of various management problems, requires time and competence of politicians, government, NGOs and more. It is evolutionary in nature, when publicity in governance must develop, and representatives of the branches of government will try to solve the problem of governing the state and society competently, transparently, responsibly, flexibly, openly, socially justly, effectively for the benefit of man as the main social capital.

Uses and Abuses of “State and Civil Society” in Contemporary Turkey

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Navaro-Yashin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Social Scientific

The categories of “state” and “civil society” have too often been used as oppositional terms in the social sciences and in public discourse. This article aims to problematize the concepts of “state” and “civil society” when perceived as separate and distinct entities in the discourses of social scientists as well as of members of contemporary social movements in Turkey. Rather than readily using state and society as analytical categories referring to essential domains of sociality, the purpose is to transform these very categories into objects of ethnographic study. There has been a proliferation of discourse on “the state” and “the civil society” in Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s. This article emerges out of an observation of the peculiar coalescence of social scientific and public usages of these terms in this period. It aims to radically relativize and to historically contextualize these terms through a close ethnographic study of the various political domains in which they have been discursively employed.

scholarly journals ESTADO BRASILEIRO NO LIMIAR DOS ANOS 1990: Estado-Coisa ou Estado-Sujeito?

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Monica Piccolo Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Single Class ◽  
Object State ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship

Este artigo propõe-se a analisar em uma perspectiva crítica as principais concepções que predominam na literatura especializada acerca do Estado Brasileiro no limiar dos anos 1990. Toma como objeto de investigação as diversas interpretações construídas sobre algumas temáticas que marcaram a meteórica trajetória de Fernando Collor de Mello rumo a presidência da República. Serão assim analisadas algumas das mais importantes obras que têm como tema o Governo Collor na tentativa de mapear a concepção de Estado que predomina em cada obra. Parte-se da hipótese de que é hegemônica entre os analistas a concepção do Estado brasileiro nos primeiros anos de 1990 como Estado-Sujeito que paira acima de uma Sociedade Civil amorfa, passiva. A vertente explicativa aqui defendida, em uma perspectiva diferenciada e sustentada no arcabouço teórico gramsciniano, sustenta que as relações entre Estado e Sociedade devem ser problematizadas e desnaturalizadas. O modelo de Estado que se forjou, então, não é fruto, unicamente, dos interesses de uma única classe. Ele é visto enquanto relação social e fruto de conflitos entre sujeitos coletivos organizados a partir da sociedade civil e profundamente marcado pelos esforços de transformação do discurso e das práticas neoliberais em hegemônicosPalavras-chave: Estado. Neoliberalismo. Governo Collor. BRAZILIAN STATE ON THE BEGINNING OF THE YEARS 1990: Object-State or Subject-State ?Abstract: This paper aims to examine in a critical perspective the main conceptions that predominate in the specialized literature on the State on the threshold of the years 1990. The object of research are the various interpretations built on some thematic that marked the meteoric career of Fernando Collor de Mello into the Presidency of the Republic Some of the most important works that have as theme Collor's Government are analyzed in an attempt to map the conception that predominates in each work. Considering the hypothesis that it is hegemonic, among analysts, the conception of Brazilian State in the early years of 1990 as asubject State that hangs above an amorphous, Civil society. The explanatory section here defended, in a different perspective and sustained in the Gramscian theory, maintains that the relationship between the State and society must be raised and not naturalized. The State model that was forged, so it is not the result only of the interests of a single class. It is seen as a social relation and the result of conflicts among organized collective subjects from civil society and deeply marked by the speech transformation efforts and neoliberal hegemonic practices.Keywords: State. Neoliberalism. Collor's Government.ESTADO BRASILEÑO EN EL UMBRAL DE LOS AÑOS 1990: ¿Estado Cosa o Estado Sujeto?Resumen: Este trabajo se propone examinar en una perspectiva crítica los conceptos principales que predominan en la literatura especializada sobre el estado en el umbral de los años 1990. Tiene por objeto de investigación las diversas interpretaciones construidas sobre algunas temáticas que marcaron la carrera meteórica de Fernando Collor de Mello en la Presidencia de la República. Por lo tanto serán analizadas algunas de las obras más importantes que tienen como tema el gobierno de Collor, en un intento de mapear la concepción que predomina en cada obra. Se basa en la hipótesis que es hegemónica entre los analistas es el diseño del estado brasileño en los primeros años de 1990 como un estado de sujeto suspendido encima de una Sociedad Civil, amorfa. La sección explicativa aquí defendida, en una perspectiva diferente y sostenido en el teórico gramsciano, mantiene que la relación entre el estado y la sociedad debe plantearse como problematizadas y desnaturalizadas. El modelo de estado que forjó, así por lo tanto, no es el resultado sólo de los intereses de una sola clase. Él es visto como una relación social y el resultado de conflictos entre tema organizado colectivos de la sociedad civil y profundamente marcada por las actividades de procesamiento de voz y neoliberal hegemónico en prácticas.Palabras clave: Estado. Neoliberalismo. Collor gobierno.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION POLICY OF THE STATE IN THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSION

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-225
Author(s):  
Olha Vysotska
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
State Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Trend ◽  
Communication Policy ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Building Models ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The relevance of the article is due to the need to understand the evolution of understanding the essence of the communicative policy of the state as a key tool for its interaction with society. The communicative policy of the state plays a key role in the development of general strategies for social development, influences the formation of public opinion, the nature of regulation of political processes, and the specifics of building communication between the state and society. The study of the transformation of communication policy concepts is also determined by the need to significantly improve the methodological aspects of building models of relations between the state and society in order to achieve the goals and implement the functions of state policy, taking into account the goals and interests of society. The study of the communicative policy of the state has a long history, starting from antiquity and ending with the present. The main focus of consideration of this issue is to determine the relationship between the state and society, as well as communication tools for establishing links between them. The solution of theoretical and applied issues of communication between the state and society concerns changes in the sphere of building state institutions and civil society. The communicative policy of the state can be described as a complex system of communication between the state and society, the purpose of which is to achieve a balance between the state-political and socio-humanitarian interests of the parties. The main trend in understanding the essence of the state’s communicative policy is the transition from a controlling model of relations between the state and society to a consensus one, understanding communication tools as basic conditions for combining state-political and socially-oriented goals of state policy. An effective model of the state’s communicative policy is thus possible only in conditions of transparent and democratic relations between the state and civil society.

scholarly journals Aspects of Expanding the Interaction between the State and Civil Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (71) ◽  
pp. 108-125
Author(s):  
Olena I. Kravchenko ◽  
Oksana S. Dudchenko ◽  
Iryna S. Kunenko ◽  
Oleksandr Spodynskyi ◽  
Oksana V. Deliia
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Rights And Interests ◽  
Case Study Methods

The aim of this study was a holistic analysis of aspects of expanding the interaction between the state and civil society on the example of the experience of foreign countries, namely Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, and Poland. The research involves such methods as sociological analysis, systemic and case study methods, structural and comparative methods, as well as the dialectical method. The factors of expanding the interaction of the judiciary as a representative of the state, which protects the rights and interests of civil society, were identified in accordance with the results of the study. As a result, conclusions were drawn on the need for the judiciary, as a representative of the state, to use methods to expand the interaction between the state and society, in the person of every citizen. The use of those factors in relation to such interaction will further help increase public confidence in the state, which will ensure effective protection of the rights and interests of society.

scholarly journals Secular State and Civil Society: Search for Common Contacts

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Anna F. Meshcheryakova
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Secular State

This article is devoted to the study of such complex phenomena as civil society and the secular state and their subsequent influence on each other. The study takes a close look at religious associations, which constitute a structural element of civil society. Freedom of action granted by the state within the framework of secularity allows them to play the role of a link between the individual, the state, and society and coordinates common and private interests, and thus contributes to strengthening relations between these entities. Thus, secularity acts as a fundamental legal value. Taking into consideration the essential features of the secular state, we trace peculiarities of the relationship of religious associations to authorities at the present stage. It is proved that their active citizenship helps the state solve many issues related to meeting diverse needs of the individual. At the same time, the study focuses on the imperfection of Russian legislation governing various aspects of secularity, specifically on the vagueness and inaccuracy of some formulations which lead to a clash of opinions and interests of people with different worldviews and groundless accusations of authorities of clerical tendencies. At the same time, clericalization is a negative factor destabilizing civil society, hindering its normal development. We express an opinion on the admissibility and even expediency of statechurch interaction, which, with strict legislative regulation, cannot be identified with the attempts to clericalize power and society. The study also defines the freedom of religion limits (freedom of conscience) in the formation of a secular state and civil society

scholarly journals The Kurds in the Turkish–Armenian Reconciliation Process: Double-Bind or Double-Blind?

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilgin Ayata
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
Turkish Society ◽  
Reconciliation Process

A century after the Armenian Genocide and its ongoing denial by the Turkish state, there has emerged a notable and unprecedented interest in the Armenian past and present both in civil society discourse and scholarship in Turkey, accompanied by various reconciliation iniatives at the state and society levels. Observers have suggested that this increased engagement with Turkey's suppressed past is an outcome of its EU candidacy, the democratization reforms of the early 2000s, and the shockwave among liberal segments of Turkish society caused by the 2007 assassination of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. I argue that this shortsighted analysis, which completely ignores the Kurdish movement's transformative challenge to Turkish denialism since the 1980s, echoes the key fallacy of present discussions of Turkey's engagement with its past: compartmentalization and disjunction of interlinked state crimes.

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