The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Democracy

Democratic Politics and Foreign Affairs

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-36
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Democratic Peace ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy

Whether foreign policy should be exempted from democratic politics has been discussed since the early days of modern democracy. While this debate has oscillated between executive-friendly and democracy-friendly positions, it has neglected the role of political parties as essential actors in democratic decision-making and in providing cues to the public more broadly. Institutionalist and ideational theories of the so-called Democratic Peace in particular have neglected political parties, even though they silently assume that foreign and security policy is a matter of party-political contestation. Therefore, the theoretical framework outlined in this chapter also draws on scholarship in Foreign Policy Analysis that examined the role of ‘government ideology’. It suggests two propositions to inform the empirical analyses, namely 1) that foreign affairs are systematically contested, rather than shielded from democratic politics; 2) that party-political contestation is structured along the left/right dimension.

11. Social Capital and Civil Society

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Letki
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Change ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
Trust And Reciprocity ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the role of civil society and social capital in democratization processes. It begins by reconstructing the definitions of civil society and social capital in the context of political change, followed by an analysis of the ways in which civil society and social capital are functional for the initiation and consolidation of democracies. It then considers the relationship between civil society and attitudes of trust and reciprocity, the function of networks and associations in democratization, paradoxes of civil society and social capital in new democracies, and main arguments cast against the idea that civic activism and attitudes are a necessary precondition for a modern democracy. The chapter argues that civil society and social capital and their relation to political and economic institutions are context specific.

Subversive institutions, informal governance, and contemporary Russian politics

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 295-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Gel’man
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
State Building ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Informal Governance ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Communist State ◽  
Growing Pains ◽  
Russian Politics

The article presents an analysis of “informal institutionalization” in post-Communist Russia in theoretical and comparative perspective. It is devoted to critical analysis of existing explanations of the dominance of subversive institutions – that is, those rules, norms, and practices that at first sight partly resemble institutions of modern democracy, good governance and rule of law, but in fact inhibit them. While “pessimists” focus on cultural and historical embeddedness of subversive institutions in Russia, “optimists” draw their attention to patterns of post-Communist state-building, and “realists” point out the major role of special interests groups in turning growing pains of informal governance in Russia into its chronic deceases.

scholarly journals Freedom of expression -The Clash of Rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 516-521
Author(s):  
Andhika Yahya Santiago Baramuli
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
The Right

This article will examine the shift in the role of freedom of expression based on recent events, observing how the right to freedom guaranteed by law has shifted into a coercive political tool in modern democracy. The results of this article show that, freedom of expression has been melted and shaped into a shield into a sword. This has changed from what was traditionally a negative role to guarantee people's freedom from arbitrary exercise of power, to a positive role in which people can exercise their liberties against their own rights.

scholarly journals Modern Democracy-Welfare State and Public Goods. A current consequence for Greece.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMMANOUIL MAVROZACHARAKIS
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
System P ◽  
A Current

People expect the state to create jobs and provide them with a social security net. Whatever its defects, whatever the virtues of the private sector, no structure other than the state can today provide citizens with the basic public goods. Under the present right-wing government of Nea Dimokratia in Greece, which is not particularly at odds with neoliberalism, a very active role of the state is not expected. Also is nor expected the introduction of a serious program of public investment and demand-boosting to stimulate the national economy and enter into a virtuous circle of recovery. Greece, which has undergone the economic crisis with drastic cuts in its traditionally deficient social state, has to respond directly to the marked underinvestment in public goods (in key areas such as education, health, natural disasters, dealing with decent living conditions).The most important tool for inputting resources is the tax system.

scholarly journals The Validity and Challenges of the Traditional Chieftaincy in Modern Decentralization or Decentralized Governance for Development (DGD) In Lesotho

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Moses M. M.
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Decentralized System ◽  
Policy System ◽  
Administrative Policy ◽  
Decentralized Governance ◽  
Policy Systems

This is a public management policy system or development administration exploring paper on the country of Lesotho. It is a desk study reviewing the validity of an argument justifying the role of the traditional rule or chieftaincy in the modern ‘decentralized governance for development’ (DGD) or decentralization in Lesotho. The paper discusses chieftaincy and colonialism in Lesotho, institutional roles of chieftaincy, the role of chieftaincy in the era of modern democracy/DGD, the relations between the democratic local authorities and chieftaincy in Lesotho and the role of chieftaincy and its constraints in the decentralized system of Lesotho. The paper directly contributes knowledge in public management sciences and administrative policy systems.

scholarly journals The idea of democracy as a substantial foundation of the legal order of the modern state

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Kirill Rakov
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Key Characteristics

The article considers the role of one of the most popular modern political and legal ideas-the idea of democracy in the formation of the rule of law of the modern state. Exploring the genesis of ideas about democracy, the author attempts to determine its meaning and place in the system of ideas that determine the modern political and legal discourse. The author, within the framework of the concept of formal and substantive foundations of the rule of law, defines the idea of democracy as an important substantive foundation of the rule of law of the modern state, describes the key characteristics of modern democracy.

Democratic Planning in Agriculture, I

1941 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-249
Author(s):  
John D. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Lay Participation ◽  
Agricultural Planning ◽  
Systematic Planning ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
Individual Farm

Planning has always been regarded as a matter for the experts. Laymen affected by the plans have usually participated in the process only by accepting or rejecting through their representatives planning projects drawn up by technicians. The necessary importance of the rôle of technicians and the inevitable conflict between technical considerations, which must determine the recommendations of the experts, and political considerations, which must determine the attitude of representatives, have led many to regard the whole idea of systematic planning (in any large field of production) as undemocratic in its general trend. The whole idea of planning, they insist, points necessarily toward bureaucratic centralization of responsibility. The significance of the recently launched County Land Use Planning program lies in the effort to achieve from the first stages of the process and at the most local levels of organization that fusion between the skill and experience of the expert and the political choices of laymen which is the essence of modern democracy. Decentralization and localization of planning is, of course, particularly essential in agriculture because of the need to adapt methods for attaining general objectives to widely varying sectional differences. At the same time, lay participation in agricultural planning can mean widespread participation because of the wide spread of individual responsibility for individual farm enterprises. It may well be, therefore, that the lessons to be learned from this experiment in democratic planning for agriculture are not readily transferable to other fields of productive enterprise. That is a question that I must leave to others.

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