Educational contexts of cultural resistance in Poland and Portugal. An introduction to research

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3 (253)) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Paula Guerra ◽  
Piotr Zańko
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
International Research ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Abstract Level ◽  
International Research Project

The goal of this article is to present the main theoretical and methodological assumptions of an international research project on the educational contexts of cultural resistance in Poland and Portugal. In this article, we will first analyse, in a resumed way, the various lines of thought related to cultural resistance, radical democracy critical pedagogy; then we will present an example of a critical pedagogy, the punk pedagogy, in order to demonstrate that the reality we describe is not only present at the abstract level; then, and finally, we proceed with the research methodology that we intend to trigger in order to analyse the educational contexts of cultural resistance in Portugal and Poland. In this article we are talking about two countries with very dissonant stories. Even today, in the context of membership of the European Union, the course of both countries seems to diverge. However, we argue that the comparison between these two distant and different countries may open new perspectives on the contexts of cultural resistance and critical pedagogy. Like the example of punk, these practices of cultural resistance can serve as a way to empower active civic and political participation, going beyond the simple act of voting every four years and promoting a radical democracy.

scholarly journals Constituent power and civil disobedience: Beyond the nation-state?

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E Scheuerman
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Conscientious Objection ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Constitutional Politics ◽  
Proper Interpretation

Radical democratic political theorists have used the concept of constituent power to sketch ambitious models of radical democracy, while many legal scholars deploy it to make sense of the political and legal dynamics of constitutional politics. Its growing popularity notwithstanding, I argue that the concept tends to impede a proper interpretation of civil disobedience, conceived as nonviolent, politically motivated lawbreaking evincing basic respect for law. Contemporary theorists who employ it cannot distinguish between civil disobedience and other related, yet ultimately different, modes of political illegality (e.g. conscientious objection, resistance, revolution). The essay also examines Jürgen Habermas’ recent contributions to a theory of mixed or dualistic (postnational) constituent power, conceding that Habermas avoids many theoretical and political ills plaguing competing radical democratic theoretical retrievals. Nonetheless, Habermas’ attempt to salvage the idea of constituent power as part of his reformist agenda for the European Union not only breaks with his earlier understandable skepticism about the idea but also risks trimming the admirably ambitious sails of his radical democratic interpretation of civil disobedience.

Women Entrepreneurs

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-157
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Small Business ◽  
International Research ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Set Up

‘Internet Review’ identifies relevant and useful Websites related to entrepreneurship and innovation. This issue's article reviews Websites on women entrepreneurs. The US Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy estimated that there were 9.1 million women-owned firms in 2001, employing 27.5 million people and contributing $3.6 trillion in sales and revenue to the US economy. Over 18 million women business owners set up one-third of the companies created in the European Union. International research results suggest that the needs of women entrepreneurs worldwide are similar and that their major problems are finance/capital, education/training and networks/markets.

Deterrence and tax morale in the European Union

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUNO S. FREY
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
European Union ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Civic Virtue ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Tax Morale ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
The Eu

Deterrence has been the prevalent strategy to enforce tax revenue both throughout history and in economic theory. This approach is, however, problematic because it is inconsistent with empirical reality. I wish to consider a new way of thinking about taxation, following psychological economics. I submit that individuals have a substantial amount of civic virtue and tax morale. Taxation is ‘quasi-voluntary’ and cannot reasonably be enforced by deterrence. Tax morale is lowered when the citizens have little trust in their state, and feel badly treated by the tax office. According to official surveys, the European Union is faced with a ‘democracy deficit’ and dwindling support from the citizens. At the EU-level, civic virtue and tax morale can be improved by offering more (direct) political participation rights and raising taxes in a decentralized way.

E-petition systems and political participation: About institutional challenges and democratic opportunities

First Monday ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knud Böhle ◽  
Ulrich Riehm
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Electronic Submission ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Institutional Challenges ◽  
The Eu

The implementation of e-petition systems holds the promise to increase the participative and deliberative potential of petitions. The most ambitious e-petition systems allow for electronic submission, make publicly available the petition text, related documents and the final decision, allow supporting a petition by electronically co-signing it, and provide electronic discussion forums. Based on a comprehensive survey (2010/2011) of parliamentary petition bodies at the national level covering the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) plus Norway and Switzerland, the present state of public e-petitioning in the EU is presented, and the relevance of e-petition systems as a means of political participation is discussed.

Research Methodology of Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness of Higher Education Institutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Multan ◽  
Marzena Wójcik‐Augustyniak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
European Union ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Competitive Situation ◽  
Strategic Group ◽  
The University ◽  
2D And 3D

The article presents the issues of entrepreneurship and innovativeness of universities in the context of the analysis of the European Union guidelines and determining the competitive position of the university with the use of the strategic group maps. The aim of the article is to present different variants of strategic group maps, called by the authors 1D, 2D and 3D maps, which enable the identification of the competitive situation in the sector of higher education in Poland. The study focused on two sets of criteria of differentiation of the universities’ strategies, which are entrepreneurship and innovativeness. The research problem was formulated in the form of the following questions: whether the described methods of 1D, 2D and 3D maps may be applied to the analysis of competition in the sector of higher education institutions in Poland, in relation to entrepreneurship and innovativeness.

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