Der Staat in Zeiten des Internets . Auf der Suche nach einer Legitimationsarchitektur für die digitale Kommunikationsgesellschaft – Ein Essay

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-721
Author(s):  
Ulrich Sarcinelli
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Role Of The State

Thinking about the role of the state during the corona pandemic may seem like “carrying coals to Newcastle” . After all, times of crisis are considered to be times of the executive . What is needed more than ever, therefore, seems to be a strong state capable of acting . However, the architecture of statehood has already changed and political and social science research had begun addressing this long before the current crisis . In particular, it is digitization that drives international networking . This raises questions of the conditions of its legitimation because rule is increasingly associated with multilevel governance and a diffusion of political responsibility . Here, however, it is argued that even in the much-invoked “post-national constellation” the state remains an authority of legitimation, if not the decisive one . In order to maintain and further develop liberal democracy, a new regulatory policy for the digital communication society is required, in which the state is not less important than an active civil society .

scholarly journals From ‘Post-Industrial’ to ‘Network Society’ and Beyond: The Political Conjunctures and Current Crisis of Information Society Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Ampuja ◽  
Juha Koivisto
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Manuel Castells ◽  
Post Industrial

This article critically discusses the intellectual and conceptual shifts that have occurred in information society theories (and also policies) in the previous four decades. We will examine the topic by focusing on the work of Daniel Bell and Manuel Castells, arguably two of the most important information society theorists. A key element in the academic shift from “post-industrial” (Bell) thinking to the discourse on “network society” (Castells) is that it has brought forward a different way of understanding the role of the state vis-a-vis the development of new information and communication technologies, as well as a new assessment of the role of the state in the economy and society at large. Against the Keynesian undertones of Bell’s ideas, Castells’ network society theory represents a neoliberally restructured version of “information society” that is associated with the rise of flexibility, individuality and a new culture of innovation. We argue that these changing discourses on the information society have served a definite hegemonic function for political elites, offering useful ideals and conceptions for forming politics and political compromises in different historical conjunctures. We conclude the article by looking at how the on-going global economic crisis and neoliberalism’s weakening hegemonic potential and turn to austerity and authoritarian solutions challenges existing information society theories. 

scholarly journals POR TRÁS DO MITO DA BURGUESIA NACIONAL: UMA ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA DO ESTADO DESENVOLVIMENTISTA NO BRASIL E NA COREIA DO SUL

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Vinícius Pereira Brites ◽  
Bruna Coelho Jaeger
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Development Paths ◽  
And Control

Since the 1990s, many analysts have sought to explain the differences in development paths between Brazil and South Korea, the latter often being pointed as an example of success. As a highly industrialized economy focused on international trade, the South Korean case stood out as a way of overcoming the backwardness of developing countries. However, there is a need for analysis that point to the specificities of the developmental state in South Korea, whose interventionist action was decisive in leveraging the country’s industrial production in accordance with internal business groups, as well as the geopolitical context favorable to outward-oriented industrialization. The Brazilian process, in turn, due to the wealth of natural resources and the large domestic market, has made the induction of the state in industrialization more artificial, whose policy supposes an element of coercion, induction and control. This research, therefore, seeks to analyze the specific dimensions of each case, highlighting the role of the state and its relationship with the internal bourgeoisie in the construction of an industrial policy. The trajectories of rise and decline of Brazilian and South Korean developmental state will be analyzed, including the current crisis of reconfiguration of political power that both countries are going through.

12. The Modern State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Persson
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Weak State ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Outcomes

This chapter examines the concept of the modern state in a developing world context. More specifically, it considers the characteristics and capabilities that define the modern state and the extent to which the state can be regarded as an autonomous actor with the potential to influence development outcomes. After providing an overview of the role of the state as a potential driver of development, the chapter discusses statehood in the contemporary world and how the evolution of the modern state can be understood. It then asks how different patterns of state formation affect the ways that states further consolidate and develop. It also explains the distinction between the ‘weak’ state found in the majority of developing countries and the ‘strong’ state typically found in the industrialized parts of the world. Finally, it tackles the question of institutional reform from ‘the outside’ and its implications for development.

scholarly journals Indian Therapeutic Hierarchies and the Politics of Recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 115-133
Author(s):  
Helen Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
North India ◽  
Medical Pluralism ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Medical Traditions ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

AbstractSocial science research on medicine in India has moved from village-based ethnographies to studies of the major medical traditions, and from a focus on indigenous folk practices to the influence of global biomedicine. This article shows how these academic trends have influenced the contemporary understanding of medical pluralism in India. The article then describes the socio-political structuring of medical plurality, by relating historical shifts in government policy on indigenous medicine to ethnographic material on “bone doctors” and other subaltern traditions in north India. It highlights the role of the state as constitutive of contemporary medical pluralism and suggests how current analytical frameworks for understanding the phenomenon of medical plurality might be reconceived to better characterise shifting relations of power among professional and vernacular therapeutic forms. It concludes that concerns over the decline of subaltern medical traditions, seen in government policies and vernacular explanations alike, can be understood as intracultural narratives that are replicated in academic scholarship.

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