Relegitimating the democratic polity

2010 ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
C William R Webster
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Polity

«Interculturalism»: Quebec’s Model of Cultural Pluralism

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Dariya Logvinova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Minority Cultures ◽  
Migrant Integration ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of poly-ethnicity on political communities, by focusing on the symbolic aspect of citizenship. What are the symbolic ‘anchors’ that frame and define sentiments of belonging in a democratic polity? How do we evaluate such criteria in the light of the challenge of poly-ethnicity? Such questions are explored through a comparative conceptual assessment of the Canadian policy of multiculturalism and the Quebec’s model of interculturalism. Keywords: Сitizenship, self-identification, constitutional state, migration policy, migrant, integration, cultural diversity, minority cultures, interculturalism, multiculturalism

From Relative Autonomy to Consensual Development: The Case of South Korea

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 630-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tat Yan Kong
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Societal Actors ◽  
Rapid Industrialization ◽  
Autonomous State ◽  
Economic Leadership

The success of the autonomous state in promoting rapid industrialization in South Korea from 1961 to 1987 is usually seen in terms of the state's capacity to coerce reluctant societal actors into productive economic pursuits. The economic sluggishness associated with some autonomous states suggests that any explanation of Korean economic success also needs to mention the factors that constrained bureaucratic abuse and the methods by which societal motivation behind the industrialization effort was maintained over three decades. Democratization has accentuated the capacity of societal actors to challenge the state's economic leadership but has not resulted in the emergence of an economic free for all. While similarities exist, Korea will experience greater difficulty in realizing the synthesis between developmental state and liberal-democratic polity (consensual development) that characterized postwar Japanese development.

scholarly journals Revisiting norms of citizenship in times of democratic change

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110317
Author(s):  
Christian Schnaudt ◽  
Jan W van Deth ◽  
Carolin Zorell ◽  
Yannis Theocharis
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Empirical Application ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Citizenship Norms

Over the last two decades, scholars have investigated norms of citizenship by focussing primarily on ‘dutiful’ and ‘engaged’ norms. In the meantime, contemporary democracies have witnessed growing demands for more sustainable styles of living and increasing public support for authoritarian and populist ideas. These developments point to both a change and an expansion of conventional understandings and conceptions of what a ‘good citizen’ in a democratic polity ought to do. Specifically, they raise questions about whether demands for more sustainability and increasing support for populist ideas establish new facets of democratic citizenship, and if so, how they can be meaningfully incorporated into existing images of citizenship. This study provides a re-conceptualization of citizenship norms and empirically tests a new measurement instrument using original data collected in Germany in 2019. The empirical application of an expanded set of items demonstrates the existence of more variegated facets of norms of citizenship, including norms to safeguard a sustainable future and distinct populist facets emphasizing the relevance of trust in authorities and experts as well as reliance on feelings and emotions. Contemporary conceptions of citizenship thus go beyond conventional distinctions between dutiful and engaged norms of citizenship.

scholarly journals How Reflective and Critical Norm-Usage Paves the Way to the Public Power of Judgement

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-188
Author(s):  
Karolina M. Cern
Keyword(s):  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Public Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Power Needs ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Neil MacCormick’s conception of norm-usage makes it necessary to address the concept of the public power of judgement as the key concept for understanding the democratic legitimization of current law. Therefore, firstly I analyse MacCormick’s conception of norm-usage, secondly I demonstrate that it leads to the idea of the institutionalisation of judgemental–interpretative practice, and thirdly, I show that the latter paves the way to the public power of judgement. Finally, I argue that this power needs to be elaborated in terms of competencies which are broader than legal skills and legal reasoning, and, further, that these competencies condition the use of both legal skills and reasoning. Importantly, MacCormick’s contribution to understanding the public power of judgement—when further developed—may indicate the profound role of comprehending the proper significance of law in a democratic polity and its relationship to the citizenry.

State spatial restructuring, subnational politics and emerging spaces of engagement for collective action: Labour regimes in Tamil Nadu, southern India

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Vijayabaskar
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Southern State ◽  
Shape Spaces ◽  
Cheap Labour ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Spatial Restructuring ◽  
Transitioning Countries ◽  
Electoral Power

This paper contributes to the emerging literature on state rescaling by examining how processes of restructuring in late transitioning countries like India shape spaces of collective action for labour. India’s subnational States, which have become increasingly critical scales for shaping processes of economic restructuring, face competing governance imperatives. On one hand, they must offer a business-friendly environment, including cheap labour, in order to attract private investments. On the other hand, in a democratic polity, they are compelled to secure political power through electoral appeal to labour. Through a study of labour regimes in the southern State of Tamil Nadu, I argue that subnational governments have responded to this challenge by enabling a scale of labour governance that undermines labour’s ability to engage with new spaces of collective action opened up by reforms and globalization. Rather, the State subsidizes labour through welfare provisioning in their residential spaces even as it draws upon inter-State migrant labour that wields less electoral power.

Contours of a democratic polity

Politics ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Maddox
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Polity

A Democratic Polity?

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 630-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Manza ◽  
Fay Lomax Cook
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Polity

Not-for-profits in the democratic polity

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Taylor ◽  
Eleanor Burt
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Polity

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Keisha Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Politics Of Resistance ◽  
Educational Advocacy ◽  
Barber Shops

Participants in the discourse on AMBS are best situated to assess their own and others’ experiential claims within a specific place and as part of a particular process of educational advocacy. The former is comprised of barber shops, laundromats, libraries, and other accessible, decentralized, community-based arenas that have a history of incubating anti-racist and other politics of resistance. The latter emphasizes the importance of public schools while challenging the quality of such schools available to black children. Such advocacy is ultimately successful when it abides by the two-fold norm that good public schools foster black self-determination in the face of intersecting oppression and also prepare black children of all genders to continually evaluate what life in a democratic polity looks like.

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