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Parliamentary Time as a Medium of Politics
2018
The chapter deals with parliamentary time that underlies all the other aspects as a temporal ‘subtext’ of parliamentary politics. The temporal aspect is built into the parliamentary procedures, debates, regimes and actors. It is not only a play in time but also a play with time. The parliamentary debate requires sufficient time but at the same time recognising that parliamentary time is always scarce, and a fair distribution of it between both items and members is necessary. Parliamentary politics shows therefore an extraordinary sensitivity for time. Parliamentary time is based on multiple rounds of debate as well as on a time order of parliamentary moves of different types. When used in p…
Parliamentary Politics as an Activity
2018
In this book, Kari Palonen undertakes a thought experiment to spell out key principles of the parliamentary ideal type of politics. Max Weber offers him the main intellectual inspiration, Westminster parliament provides the main historical reference and the author’s studies on parliamentary procedure and rhetoric provide the background. Parliamentary acting and thinking offers us the best example of politics as contingent and controversial activity. In parliament, the pro et contra debate on the motions and the dissensus between perspectives of judging as well as playing in time and with time are built into the institution itself. In this sense, parliamentary politics is more than parliamen…
Authority and Coordination
1995
There are many possible starting points for attempts to link authority with the coordination of human interactions: the most famous forerunner here is of course David Hume with his theory of justice. I will, however, start from a more recent classic. Herbert A. Simon’s Administrative Behaviour (1945, 2nd ed. 1957) includes an important theory for the role of authority. It is an obvious sign of the lack of communication between different branches and traditions in social theory that many jurists and political theorists emphasizing the coordinative functions of authority have paid no attention to Simon’s classical book.
Civil Justice in the Global Current Society
2017
The monopolization of the process model within the framework of Civil Justice has been a reality, especially in continental court systems, and found its raison d'etre in the social, political, economic and legal history of civilization. Civil justice was identified with the Process, even though it was not the only way to achieve it; but it was understood as the best one possible. This model of conflict resolution appeared as a static approach, linked to the idea of "public service", which is technically complex with certain formalities. The Process was progressively considered to be a conquest of civilization. This procedural model has been providing a way for the pacification of society, i…
Ukryta polityczność — uzasadnienie merytokratyczne i jego rola w prawotwórstwie
2020
Przedmiotem artykułu jest analiza uzasadnienia merytokratycznego w prawotwórstwie w kontekście problematyki polityczności, rozumianej w duchu Chantal Mouffe jako pewien nie-usuwalny stan antagonizmu leżącego u podstaw funkcjonowania każdego społeczeństwa. Ideologia merytokratyczna w zakresie prawotwórstwa opiera się na założeniu, że możliwe jest wyeliminowa-nie polityczności z procesu tworzenia prawa poprzez zastąpienie jej czynnikiem eksperckim. Autor na przykładzie sądowego tworzenia prawa oraz prawotwórstwa niezależnych agencji regulacyjnych w USA wskazuje, że uzasadnienie merytokratyczne: (1) służy legitymizacji przyjmowanych rozwią-zań prawnych, (2) nie eliminuje z niego elementu polit…
El populismo penal en Colombia: propuesta para un debate inconcluso
2020
El presente documento argumenta que el populismo penal ha sido interpretado y caracterizado de diversas maneras, pero que, en realidad, no se han planteado propuestas para establecer un “umbral” que permita definir cuándo se trata de una reforma penal legítima y necesaria, y cuándo estamos ante una populista o reaccionaria. Este trabajo propone un modelo aplicado a reformas penales que se podrían considerar populistas, y así, ofrecer un test que permita dar un paso hacia la teoría del populismo penal.
God and the Profit—A European Overlook on Some Economic Doctrines
2018
When we discuss the relationship religion-European identity, we should switch between two parties. We do not have “unique networks”. It is necessary to have “accomplices” and “connivance”, in the good sense of these words, for the purpose of progress which does not come only from one part, but from all parts. It is also necessary to always look to the future, but without neglecting history knowledge, depicting lessons, the needed experience. Out of all these, we exclude anarchism, left or right-side terrorism, religious or lay, Islamic or Christian etc. Superior technologies may promote it widely developed. Let us start from the fact that people radicalization—beyond those paid directly to …
Managing Invisibility: Theoretical and Practical Contestations to Disrespect
2021
By aiming at the recognition of normative claims contained in affective reactions to disrespect or social suffering, Recognition Theory points—at least implicitly—also toward the visibilization of groups and individuals who suffer from disrespect. Social invisibilization is therefore understood as hindering recognition and impeding even the perception of legitimate normative claims. However, since Foucault we also know that visibilization could be a mechanism of control and domination, thus pointing to a form of disrespect as the opposite of recognition. In this chapter the diverse forms of migrants struggle for recognition will be analyzed with regard to the question how these struggles ne…
Expressions of Relational Power in NATO Discourse: Cooperation with Former Adversaries
2018
Abstract The dissolution of the Soviet Empire in 1991 has challenged the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to grapple with an issue that had been avoided and postponed during the Cold War - how to give specific and practical content to the Alliance’s long-standing vision of a peaceful political order in Europe. This paper examines the galvanizing role of language in forging a solid discourse aimed at initiating and consolidating cooperation between the Alliance and its former adversaries in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Drawing on discourse analysis as a method of qualitative investigation, the present linguistic exploration of military discourse focuses on a number of NATO…
Exploring the Political Ontology of European Integration
2018
In this chapter, the author politicizes the ontological dimension of EU studies. He discusses ontology’s power to determine the real by analyzing some of its unformulated presuppositions and the links with knowledge and action. He argues that key European institutions like the European Commission do not change only because of institutional dynamics but also in relation to transnational interplays of differentiated agents operating simultaneously in multiple social spheres. Institutions and particularly institutional change have to be explained in the light of both new policy challenges and the preferences and habits of the agents making up these institutions and their surroundings. Such an …