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The Beginning and End of Parental Responsibility — Finnish Parents’ Views

2012

INTRODUCTIONParental responsibility is a topic much discussed in present-day society. In these discussions the concept of parental responsibility appears self-explanatory, and it is often seen as the common denominator in dealing with child behaviour and educational issues, particularly in problem-centred discussions. Generally, responsibility seems to be one of the key concepts in policy-making and public debate about the lives of children and parents (Such & Walker, 2004).A theoretical model of present-day life that deals with parenting but also relates to parental responsibility is the theory of individualization (Giddens 1991, 1992). Individualization is a term used by Beck and Beck-Ger…

Local Powers and a Distant State in Rural Central African Republic

1997

‘The State Stops at PK 12’ – i.e. 12 kilometres from the capital, Bangui.The situation described by this statement, often heard in the Central African Republic, seems to conform to the objectives of the currently fashionable policies of decentralisation and structural adjustment – for example, to end ‘too much state’. However, the absence of the state in the rural areas of the CAR is so striking that the position in certain respects has almost reached the level of caricature. It also reflects the more general situation in other parts of the continent where the excesses of a centralised, over-staffed post-colonial regime can coexist perfectly with the pronounced absence in the rural areas of…

Procedural justice and democratic institutional design in health-care priority-setting

2013

Health-care goods are goods with peculiar properties, and where they are scarce, societies face potentially explosive distributional conflicts. Animated public and academic debates on the necessity and possible justice of limit-setting in health care have taken place in the last decades and have recently taken a turn toward procedural rather than substantial criteria for justice. This article argues that the most influential account of procedural justice in health-care rationing, presented by Daniels and Sabin, is indeterminate where concrete properties of rationing institutions are concerned. Such properties inscribe substantial norms into institutions. These norms can derive validity only…

Institutional Agonism: Axel Honneth’s Radical Democracy

2017

Axel Honneth may be criticised for reducing political philosophy to moral psychology. In what follows, I argue that if his theory of recognition is reframed as one of democracy, quite another pictu...

Emotions and political rhetoric: Perception of danger, group conflict and the biopolitics of fear

2016

Abstract In the present article I shall argue that human emotion is multifaceted and has a cognitive dimension in virtue of its intricate connections with beliefs, memories, imagination, and other products of human rationality. Human emotion also has a social and political dimension. When we think about fear we cannot characterize it as a mere stimulus-response phenomenon: it is, due to its cognitive facet, more complex and related to our ideas about survival and well-being. This leaves fear exposed to political rhetoric, and thus to political manipulation. Fear can be aroused, guided and nourished amongst the population, giving rise to a biopolitics of fear. In this article, I will conside…

2018

A vigorous anti-nuclear movement emerged in Germany in the mid 1990s, when spent nuclear fuel elements began to be transported to the interim storage facility in Gorleben, Lower Saxony. Resistance ...

The local appropriation of democracy: an analysis of the municipal elections in Parakou, Republic of Benin, 2002–03

2006

Ever since the ‘democratic renewal’ of 1989–90, Benin has been regarded as a model democracy in the African context. The holding of local elections in 2002–03 can be seen as the culmination of this turn to democracy. Donors attach high expectations to decentralisation and local democracy. Based on an empirical analysis of municipal elections in Parakou, the country's third-largest city, the paper tries to gauge whether these expectations have been realised. The paper argues that while multi-party democracy has been instituted under considerable pressure from the outside, the particular form it has taken derives instead from rationales of national and local politics which go back to the late…

Il diritto di partecipazione nell’esperienza delle Comunità Autonome Spagnole e le esigenze di proceduralizzazione degli strumenti partecipativi.

2020

La forte e ormai sistemica crisi delle democrazie rappresentative contemporanee ha costituito un terreno fertile per la proliferazione di modelli rimediali, sviluppati sotto l’egida della democrazia partecipativa e dell’ideale deliberativo. Nonostante la casistica ricomprenda strumenti di diversa natura, si è lontani dall’affermazione di una disciplina organica della partecipazione. Si propone, dunque, l’analisi della disciplina adottata a livello autonomico in Spagna. In tale contesto, le soluzioni adottate a livello substatale in Spagna esprimono una evidente strategia uniformatrice che ha consentito di individuare e delineare un diritto autonomico di partecipazione cittadina. Tale soluzi…

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy, New York 1942

2008

Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950) lehrte an den Universitaten Czernowitz, Graz und Bonn. 1932 folgte nach zwei Gastprofessuren ein Ruf nach Harvard. Daruber hinaus war er zeitweise — allerdings mit weit weniger Erfolg — in der Privatwirtschaft und der Politik tatig. Zu seinen Hauptwerken zahlen neben dem erstmals 1942 auf Englisch erschienenen Spatwerk „Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie“ seine Habilitationsschrift „Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalokonomie“ (1908), die umfangreiche Arbeit „Konjunkturzyklen: Eine theoretische, historische und statistische Analyse des kapitalistischen Prozesses“ (1939) sowie die postum von seiner Frau herausgegebene „Geschichte…

Spanish electoral archive. SEA database

2021

This paper introduces the SEA database (acronym for Spanish Electoral Archive). SEA brings together the most complete public repository available to date on Spanish election outcomes. SEA holds all the results recorded from the electoral processes of General (1979–2019), Regional (1989–2021), Local (1979–2019) and European Parliamentary (1987–2019) elections held in Spain since the restoration of democracy in the late 70 s, in addition to other data sets with electoral content. The data are offered for free and is presented in a homogeneous and friendly format. Most of the databases are available for download with data from various electoral levels, including from the ballot box level. This…