On the “Public-ness” of the State

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
Antoine Vauchez ◽  
Samuel Moyn
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
The State ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Business Politics ◽  
Gravitational Pull ◽  
New Framework

This concluding chapter explains that far from having fulfilled the trumpeted promise of clarifying the respective roles of the state and the marketplace, the neoliberal turn has given birth to a space of mingling and exchange that has no precedent. An extraterritorial zone has grown up at the margins of business, politics, and government. In this new framework, confusion of roles and mixing of genres are not individual deviations from the norm or symptoms of occasional administrative anomalies. On the contrary, they constitute the new normal when it comes to the functioning of the state in its relationships with the market economy. This book, in the end, tells the story of a “black hole” that has appeared at the very heart of our democracies: its birth in a blind spot hidden from the view of professional regulations and political oversight, the expansion of its gravitational pull at the core of the state, and the ensuing political and democratic costs that we face today.

A Black Hole in Democracy?

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-150
Author(s):  
Antoine Vauchez ◽  
Samuel Moyn
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Gray Area

This chapter offers a normative assessment of the political risks and diffuse democratic costs related to the blurring process, and considers its cumulative effects from the standpoint of democratic theory. It points at the role of the public sphere's autonomy as a critical condition for democratic citizenship. Because this gray area remains largely shielded from most forms of political and professional oversight, it has become a new democratic “black hole” in which professional intermediaries — lawyers, consultants, and so forth — thrive and prosper. When confronting this extraterritorial zone that has grown up at the core of political systems, and the corrosive effects of its expansion, democracies appear to be seriously underequipped. The blurring of the public–private divide not only weakens the capacity to produce a “public interest” that rests at bay from market asymmetries, but also the very ability to conceptually identify what such a “public interest” may be. This may be one of the biggest challenges ahead for neoliberalized democracies.

scholarly journals Die Berner Waldpolitik im «Kampf der Ideologien» (Essay)

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Swiss Cantons

Forest policy of the Canton of Berne in “the struggle of ideologies” (essay) The Swiss cantons are drifting apart from each other in important questions about the forest economy. Even if the differing cantonal conditions may partly explain the varying approaches, it's problematic. The differences constrain the development of the national forest policy and timber industry and may also lead to risks for the forest economy and the cantonal forest services. The article presents a typology to describe cantonal forest policies and aims to stimulate a discussion between the cantons. A central issue is the role played by the state in the forest economy. The “provisioning state” considers the forest sector as a public service, due to the public interest and provides the services itself. The neo-liberal “minimal state” fully privatises the forest economy and operates on the principle that the market will satisfy all needs in the most efficient way. Forest policy in the Canton of Berne considers the state as the guarantor of the forest's services. This approach is located between the two mentioned extremes: the state defines the services which are needed and ensures that these are supplied by an entrepreneurial forest economy. Thus, the structural development of the forest economy in the Canton of Berne is the key to success and also one of the core concerns of the cantonal forest strategy.

Procedure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Adversarial System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Trial Process ◽  
Justice Process

This chapter focuses on the core principles which in France govern the justice process and the underlying values on which it rests. It then looks at the place of the justice function within the overall context of the public workings of the State. The ongoing process of scrutiny and reform that characterises the current approach towards the justice process in France and elsewhere is also considered. Hereafter, this chapter provides an overview of the main stages of the pre-trial process in criminal procedure. Consideration is also given to the question of to what degree the French model of justice is inquisitorial when compared with the adversarial system prevalent in common law jurisdictions.

scholarly journals Public Levies – Revenues or Expenditures of Public Budgets?

2019 ◽  
pp. 401-410
Author(s):  
Hana Marková
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
Public Budget ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
The Core

The Constitutions of 1920 and 1948, unlike recently, do not mention the charges in addition to taxes when defining mandatory payments. “Veřejné dávky” (public levies) were understood to be a payment which was imposed on members and participants of such corporations on the basis of a public authority (state and public self-governing corporations) in order to cover the payment of public needs. However, the primary method by which the state has provided the necessary means to cover its expenses was the charges. The core of these charges was equivalency of the mutual fulfilment. Secondly, the principle of requiring funds from the members of the state collective without immediate consideration was followed, i.e. the institute of taxation. In addition to these terms, for example, the term contribution is used for mandatory payments. In a number of cases, the term contribution is linked to the expenditure side of budgets and so often coincides with the concept of subsidy. On the expenditure side of the budget, the term “veřejné dávky” (public benefit) can be used for payments which, given their nature, are provided from the public budget. Differentiation of the use of the term “veřejné dávky” (public benefit eventually public levies) can lead to misunderstandings, which should be solved by the legal terminology.

Is economic inequality a universal evil?

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostislav I. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The State ◽  
Fair Play ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Power ◽  
A Current

Using published estimates of inequality for two countries (Russia and USA) the paper demonstrates that inequality measuring still remains in the state of “statistical cacophony”. Under this condition, it seems at least untimely to pass categorical normative judgments and offer radical political advice for governments. Moreover, the mere practice to draw normative conclusions from quantitative data is ethically invalid since ordinary people (non-intellectuals) tend to evaluate wealth and incomes as admissible or inadmissible not on the basis of their size but basing on whether they were obtained under observance or violations of the rules of “fair play”. The paper concludes that a current large-scale ideological campaign of “struggle against inequality” has been unleashed by left-wing intellectuals in order to strengthen even more their discursive power over the public.

Untimely Development, Ugly History:A Drama in Muslinand the Rejection of National-Historical Time

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
Mary L. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Core

This article considers the politics and aesthetics of the colonial Bildungsroman by reading George Moore's often-overlooked novel A Drama in Muslin (1886). It argues that the colonial Bildungsroman does not simply register difference from the metropolitan novel of development or express tension between the core and periphery, as Jed Esty suggests, but rather can imagine a heterogeneous historical time that does not find its end in the nation-state. A Drama in Muslin combines naturalist and realist modes, and moves between Ireland and England to construct a form of untimely development that emphasises political processes (dissent, negotiation) rather than political forms (the state, the nation). Ultimately, the messy, discordant history represented in the novel shows the political potential of anachronism as it celebrates the untimeliness of everyday life.

Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Andrea Lynn Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
End Point ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

Corporate culture as a driver of the corporate security of foreign military-industrial enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 2363-2380
Author(s):  
S.B. Zainullin ◽  
O.A. Zainullina
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Corporate Security ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Military

Subject. The military-industrial complex is one of the core industries in any economy. It ensures both the economic and global security of the State. However, the economic security of MIC enterprises strongly depends on the State and other stakeholders. Objectives. We examine key factors of corporate culture in terms of theoretical and practical aspects. The article identifies the best implementation of corporate culture that has a positive effect on the corporate security in the MIC of the USA, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Japan ans China. Methods. The study employs dialectical method of research, combines the historical and logic unity, structural analysis, traditional techniques of economic analysis and synthesis. Results. We performed the comparative analysis of corporate culture models and examined how they are used by the MIC corporations with respect to international distinctions. Conclusions and Relevance. The State is the main stakeholder of the MIC corporations, since it acts as the core customer represented by the military department. It regulates and controls operations. The State is often a major shareholder of such corporations. Employees are also important stakeholders. Hence, trying to satisfy stakeholders' needs by developing the corporate culture, corporations mitigate their key risks and enhance their corporate security.

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