scholarly journals Tullock’s Challenge: A Reconsideration of Constitutional Monarchy

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-81
Author(s):  
Alexander William Salter ◽  
David J. Hebert
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional Political Economy ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Social Surplus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Constitutional Monarchy

Tullock (2005, p. 160) notes that the perceived robust relationship between democracy and economic progress is due mostly to assumption, rather than analysis. Taking up Tullock’s challenge to consider the relationship bet - ween economic progress and other political forms, we re-assess the relation-ship between monarchy and economic progress. Our analysis specifically focuses on the possibility of a «monarchical» constitution creating the insti-tutions within which, compared to democracy, a larger social surplus can be enjoyed. After summarizing the existing conversation on monarchy vs. democracy, we outline a constitutional political economy of monarchy and apply it to the European country of Liechtenstein, which has enjoyed both rapid development and non-discriminatory governance under the kind of constitution we envision. We conclude by responding to anticipated objec-tions and proposing further avenues of inquiry on the political economy of monarchy. Key words: Constitutional Political Economy, Democracy, Efficiency, Monarchy, Liechtenstein. JEL Classification: H1, H77, P1. Resumen: De acuerdo a Tullock (2005, p. 160) la sólida relación entre demo-cracia y progreso económico descansa más en supuestos que en análisis. Tomando el desafío de Tullock de considerar la relación entre progreso eco-nómico y diversas estructuras políticas, re-evaluamos la relación entre mo-narquía y progreso económico. Nuestro análisis se enfoca específicamente en la posibilidad de una «monarquía» constitucional que crea la instituciones en las cuales, comparado con una democracia, un mayor beneficio social es posible. Luego de resumir la conversación monarquía vs. democracia, pre-sentamos una política económica constitucional de la monarquía y la apli-camos al país europeo de Lichtenstein, que ha presentado un rápido desa-rrollo y una gobernanza no discriminatoria bajo el tipo de constitución que presentamos. Concluimos respondiendo a anticipadas objeciones y pro po - niendo siguientes caminos de investigación en el tema de la economía po-lítica de la monarquía. Palabras clave: Economía Política Constitutional, Democracia, Eficiencia, Monarquía, Liechtenstein. Clasificación JEL: H1, H77, P1.

scholarly journals A CONSTITUIÇÃO DO SER SOCIAL: TRABALHO E FORMAÇÃO HUMANA EM MARX

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 391
Author(s):  
Juciley Silva Evangelista Freire
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Formation ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
German Ideology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Being ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

O artigo objetiva apreender os fundamentos da crítica de Marx aos postulados liberais da relação indivíduo e sociedade, evidenciando seus desdobramentos para a constituição do ser social e histórico e suas influências para a concepção de formação humana numa perspectiva emancipadora. Para alcançar esse objetivo recorrem-se aos debates travados por Marx com os economistas políticos e às suas controvérsias filosóficas com Feuerbach e Hegel, expressos nos Manuscritos de 1844 e nas Teses sobre Feuerbach; aos textos A Ideologia Alemã, escrito conjuntamente com Engels, e Contribuição à crítica da economia política. Nesse conjunto de textos, Marx expõe as bases da relação indivíduo e sociedade ao fazer a crítica tanto à forma como esta aparece e é pensada sob o capitalismo quanto ao seu conteúdo ontológico, que só se revelará numa outra forma social, humanamente constituída.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Trabalho; Formação humana; Marx.     ABSTRACT The article aims at apprehending the fundamentals of Marx's critique of the liberal postulates of the relation between individual and society, showing its unfolding for the constitution of the social and historical being and its influences on the conception of human formation in an emancipatory perspective. In order to achieve this goal, Marx's debates with the political economists and their philosophical controversies with Feuerbach and Hegel, expressed in the Manuscripts of 1844 and in the Theses on Feuerbach, are used; to the texts The German Ideology, written jointly with Engels, and Contribution to the critique of political economy. In this set of texts, Marx exposes the bases of the relationship between individual and society in making criticism both to the way it appears and is thought under capitalism as to its ontological content, which will only reveal itself in another socially, humanly constituted form.   KEYWORDS: Job; Human formation; Marx.     RESUMEN El artículo objetiva aprehender los fundamentos de la crítica de Marx a los postulados liberales de la relación individuo y sociedad, evidenciando sus desdoblamientos para la constitución del ser social e histórico y sus influencias para la concepción de formación humana en una perspectiva emancipadora. Para alcanzar ese objetivo se recurren a los debates de Marx con los economistas políticos y sus controversias filosóficas con Feuerbach y Hegel expresados en los Manuscritos de 1844 y en las Tesis sobre Feuerbach; a los textos La Ideología Alemana, escrito conjuntamente con Engels, y Contribución a la crítica de la economía política. En este conjunto de textos, Marx expone las bases de la relación individual y sociedad al hacer la crítica tanto a la forma como ésta aparece y es pensada bajo el capitalismo en cuanto a su contenido ontológico, que sólo se revelará en otra forma social, humanamente constituida.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Trabajar; Formación humana; Marx.

Bridging the Gap between Political and Penal Legitimacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Henham
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Value ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Social Morality ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Sentencing Policy ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that the relationship between penal policy and the political economy provides important insights into the political and institutional reforms required to minimize harsh and discriminatory penal policies. However, the capacity of sentencing policy to engage with this social reality in a meaningful way necessitates a recasting of penal ideology. To realize this objective requires a profound understanding of sentencing’s social value and significance for citizens. The greatest challenge then lies in establishing coherent links between penal ideology and practice to encourage forms of sentencing that are sensitive to changes in social value. The chapter concludes by explaining how the present approach taken by the courts of England and Wales to the sentencing of women exacerbates social exclusion and reinforces existing divisions in social morality. It urges fundamental changes in ideology and practice so that policy reflects a socially valued rationale for the criminalization and punishment of women.

Space Making as Artistic Practice: The Relationship between Grassroots Art Organizations and the Political Economy of Urban Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1142-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shira Zilberstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Art Organizations ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The Relationship

Standard narratives on the relationship between art and urban development detail art networks as connected to sources of dominant economic, social, and cultural capital and complicit in gentrification trends. This research challenges the conventional model by investigating the relationship between grassroots art spaces, tied to marginal and local groups, and the political economy of development in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen. Using mixed methods, I investigate Do–It–Yourself and Latinx artists to understand the construction and goals of grassroots art organizations. Through their engagements with cultural representations, space and time, grassroots artists represent and amplify the interests of marginal actors. By allying with residents, community organizations and other art spaces, grassroots artists form a social movement to redefine the goals and usages of urban space. My findings indicate that heterogeneous art networks exist and grassroots art networks can influence urban space in opposition to top–down development.

scholarly journals AS DUAS FACES DO SEXISMO NA MÍDIA: como Marcela Temer e Dilma Rousseff (PT) são retratadas pela Veja e IstoÉ

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Conceição Veloso ◽  
Fabíola Mendonça de Vasconcelos ◽  
Laís Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
News Magazines ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Lower Chamber ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

RESUMO A forma como a mídia brasileira retrata a mulher no campo político é um dos aportes deste artigo, que analisa as reportagens de duas revistas semanais, a Veja e a IstoÉ: enquanto a primeira tenta mostrar uma vice-primeira-dama, Marcela Temer, como “bela, recatada e do lar”, a segunda traz uma presidenta da República, Dilma Rousseff, histérica, destemperada, cuja manchete de capa é “As explosões nervosas da presidente”. As duas edições são veiculadas no contexto da votação do impeachment da presidenta Dilma Rousseff (PT), votado na Câmara Federal em  abril de 2016 e, no Senado, em maio e em agosto do mesmo ano. Utilizando como referenciais teóricos a Economia Política da Comunicação, o trabalho mostra o caráter patriarcal, misógino e preconceituoso das publicações, que reproduzem valores consoantes a formações ideológicas sexistas.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Mídia; Economia Política da Comunicação; Dilma Rousseff; Marcela Temer; Sexismo.   ABSTRACTThis paper aims to show how Brazilian media portrays women in politics. Articles about two public female figures published by Brazilian weekly news magazines, Veja and IstoÉ, were analyzed. While Veja tried to show the Second Lady Marcela Temer as a “beautiful, demure housewife”, IstoÉ portrayed the President of the Republic, Dilma Rousseff, as hysterical, intemperate, and published the headline “The nervous explosions of the President”. Both editions were published in the context of Dilma Rousseff (PT) impeachment trial. Between April and August 2016, the lower chamber voted for impeachment and the Senate voted to begin the trial, resulting in Rousseff’s suspension. Using the Political Economy of Communication as theoretical reference, this paper shows the patriarchal, misogynist and prejudiced character of the magazines, which reproduce sexist ideas.   KEYWORDS: Media; Political Economy of Communications; Dilma Rouseff; Marcela Temer; Sexism.     RESUMEN La forma que los medios de comunicación brasileños retratan las mujeres en la política es una de las aportaciones de este artículo, que analiza los temas de portada de dos revistas semanales, Veja y IstoÉ: mientras la primera publicación  intenta mostrar una vice-primera-dama como "hermosa, recatada y el hogar", el segundo periódico aporta una presidenta de la República, Dilma Rousseff,  histérica, destemplada, cuyo titular de la capa es "Las explosiones nerviosas de la presidente ". Ambas ediciones datan de antes de la votación de destitución de la presidenta Dilma Rousseff (PT), votada en el Congreso en el més de abril de 2016 y el Senado en mayo y agosto del mismo año. Utilizando referentes teóricos de la economía política de la comunicación, este trabajo muestra el carácter patriarcal, misógino y de prejuicios de las revistas, reproduciendo los valores de formaciones ideológicas sexistas.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Media; Economía Política de la Comunicación; Dilma Rousseff; Marcela Temer; Sexismo.

Cultivating Science

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-91
Author(s):  
Michitake Aso
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Rubber Industry ◽  
Agricultural Improvement ◽  
Rubber Plantations ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Plantation Agriculture ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
The Relationship

Plantation regimes encouraged knowledge production about plant and disease ecologies and the relationship among organisms and their environments more generally. More detailed knowledge about newly introduced plant species, plant and human diseases, and their shared environments was a key ingredient of better, more profitable management of rubber plantations. Chapter 2 explores the process by which agronomy came to support the burgeoning rubber industry after rubber arrived in Indochina in 1897. The French colonial government was not the first to encourage agricultural improvement on the Indochinese peninsula, but the qualitative and quantitative investment that it made in these projects set it apart from previous states. Encouraged by the success of their British and Dutch neighbors, French planters envisioned turning biologically and culturally diverse landscapes into neat rows of hevea. Plantation agriculture also played an important role in defining the political and intellectual scope of the science of ecology in Indochina, encouraging agronomists to direct their energies toward transnational businesses and the colonial project. The process of integrating the efforts of scientists, officials, and planters was not always smooth, however, and this chapter highlights the conflicts and tensions generated by a political economy of plantation agriculture.

Re-Engaging Critical Communication Studies With Social Classes

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-97
Author(s):  
Gökhan Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Homogeneous Structure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The Relationship

This article is an attempt to reestablish the linkage of the political economy of communication with the field of social classes and class relations. Studies in the field of political economy of communication are mostly shaped within the scope of instrumentalist explanation: Social communication institutions such as communication and media are perceived as a very homogeneous structure and these institutions are directly considered as the apparatus of capital and capitalists. However, in this study, it is argued that in capitalist societies, communication, and media should be understood as a field and medium of class struggle loaded with contradictions. Another point is that the political economy of communication is mostly limited to media studies. However, in today's capitalist societies, the media is not the only structure and actor in which communication forms. In this study, communication practices in capitalist society are discussed in the context of class discussions and the relationship between class struggle, culture and communication is discussed.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Silvia M. Lindtner
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Capitalist Production ◽  
Finance Capitalism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

This concluding chapter reviews the labor and sites that have long challenged the inevitability of technological progress and its violence. The socialist pitch and the production of hopeful anticipation depend on happiness labor — the labor that produces a feeling of optimism and hope despite the proliferating sense of rising precarity. If one attends to the labor and the instruments of affect that finance capitalism needs, one notices the vulnerability of capitalist production — that is, one notices that the relationship between technology, life, and markets can be otherwise. The chapter then argues that if we attend to the labor that is necessary to nurture and sustain entrepreneurial life, we can mobilize other feelings to subvert the political economy of affect that runs on the promise of happiness. We can subvert the seemingly endlessly spiraling displacement of technological promise if we reframe what counts as intervention by moving away from the ideal types of countercultural heroism.

The Political Economy of Punishment and the Penal State in Latin America

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-198
Author(s):  
Manuel Iturralde
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Penal State ◽  
Global North ◽  
Sociology Of Punishment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
North And South

In both criminology and the sociology of punishment there has been a rebirth of the political economy of crime and punishment, where the relationship between these phenomena and levels of inequality within a given society is a key aspect, to assess the transformation and features of the crime control fields of contemporary societies and to relate them to different typologies. This chapter will discuss and problematize this perspective through the analysis of Latin American crime control fields. Considering the flaws of general typologies, usually coming from the global north, the chapter will stress the need for a more detailed comparative analysis of the penal state and the institutional structures, dynamics and dispositions present in every jurisdiction, in both the global north and south, that have a direct impact on penal policy and its outcomes.

13. The Political Economy of Development

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Economy Of Development ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on the political economy of development. It first considers the different (and competing) ways of thinking about development that have emerged since the end of World War II, laying emphasis on modernization, structuralist, and underdevelopment theories, neo-liberalism and neo-statism, and ‘human development’, gender, and environmental theories. The chapter proceeds by exploring how particular understandings of development have given rise to particular kinds of development strategies at both the national and global levels. It then examines the relationship between globalization and development, in both empirical and theoretical terms. It also describes how conditions of ‘mal-development’ — or development failures — both arise from and are reinforced by globalization processes and the ways in which the world economy is governed.

8. The Political Economy of Democracy

2018 ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Patrick Bernhagen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between democratization and the economy. It first provides an historical overview of the emergence of capitalist democracy before discussing some general problems of the relationship between democracy and capitalism, highlighting the main areas in which the two systems condition each other. It then considers the role of business in democratizing countries, and more specifically the role of business actors in the transition to democracy. It also explores the intricacies of combining major political and economic reforms. Some key points are emphasized; for example, capitalism focuses on property rights while democracy focuses on personal rights. Furthermore, capitalism produces inequality, which can both stimulate and hamper democratization.

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