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Sovereignty
About: Sovereignty is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25909 publications have been published within this topic receiving 410148 citations.
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04 Sep 1997
TL;DR: In this article, the Reconfiguration of Centralization and Federalism a la Mexicana: Responding to crisis: Opening the Political Space and Deciding to Decentralize * Centralizing Politics Versus DecentRALizing Policies, 19701995 * Dependent Sovereignty: Intergovernmental Finances and the States * Municipio Libre: Ten Years of Dec decentralization in Practice * Retaining Power by Giving It Away: From Reforma Municipal to Solidaridad to Nuevo Federalismo
Abstract: * Decentralization in Mexico: The Reconfiguration of Centralization * Federalism a la Mexicana * Responding to Crisis: Opening the Political Space and Deciding to Decentralize * Centralizing Politics Versus Decentralizing Policies, 19701995 * Dependent Sovereignty: Intergovernmental Finances and the States * Municipio Libre: Ten Years of Decentralization in Practice * Retaining Power by Giving It Away: From Reforma Municipal to Solidaridad to Nuevo Federalismo
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TL;DR: In this article, the evolving fiscal relationship between Moscow and the regional governments in the early post-Soviet period was studied, and the most significant turn out to be three bargaining power variables that signal regional discontent and credible resolve to threaten economic and constitutional order.
Abstract: In Russia's lingering constitutional crisis, struggles over fiscal politics have taken on a broader institutional significance – at times even threatening to undermine the federal state. This article studies the evolving fiscal relationship between Moscow and the regional governments in the early post-Soviet period. To explain why some regions currently receive large net transfers (subsidies, grants, other benefits) from the centre while others pay large net taxes, net central transfers per capita have been regressed on a range of predictors reflecting social ‘need’, preferences of central politicians (electoral interests, pork barrel allocation, policy objectives) and lobbying capacity of regional governments. The most significant turn out to be three bargaining power variables that signal regional discontent and credible resolve to threaten economic and constitutional order – a low vote for President Yeltsin in the 1991 election, an early declaration of sovereignty and the incidence of strikes in the previous year.
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TL;DR: With its transitional administration in East Timor, the UN is exercising sovereign authority over a fledgling nation for the first time in its history as mentioned in this paper. But this control could evolve into another form of authoritarianism unless the transitional administrators themselves separate power structures and become accountable to the local population.
Abstract: With its transitional administration in East Timor, the UN is exercising sovereign authority over a fledgling nation for the first time in its history. Such social and territorial control is an increasing trend in international interventions and aims to remedy the breakdown of failed states, to combat warring factions and to topple abusive warlords. But this control could evolve into another form of authoritarianism unless the transitional administrators themselves separate power structures and become accountable to the local population. Peace-maintenance will win legitimacy only if global governors lead by example. Thus far, the UN has not done so in East Timor.
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01 Jan 1988TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the history of modernity, including Hobbes, Rousseau, and the Marquis de Sade, as well as a discussion of the role of faith, faith, and power in modernity.
Abstract: Preface 1. The Order of Modernity The Modern Frame A Madman Speaks Modernity and Nihilism 2. Hobbes: The Politics of Divine Containment The Ontological Context The Light of Reason Nature, Madness and Artifice Rhetorics of Nature and Sovereignty Reason, Faith and Power 3. Rousseau: Docility Through Citizenship The Eloquence of Nature The Simplicity of Nature The Paradox of Politics The Politics of Virtue Faith, Generality and Will First Interlude: Hobbs, Rousseau and the Marquis de Sade The Holy Alliance The Blindness of Nature 4. Hegel: The Politics of Inclusivity Madness and Knowledge Community and Subjectivity Faith and Enlightenment The Perfection of Enlightenment Second Interlude: Hegel, Marx and the State The Unity of the State The State Without Spirit Pauperism and Politics The State of Modernity 5. Nietzsche: Politics and Homesickness Truth and Homesickness A Genealogy of the Subject A Nietzschean Ethic The Fate of Modernity.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show the need for a new model of consumption by making clear the descriptive and normative shortcomings of consumer sovereignty, and propose a new sustainable consumption model to serve as a guideline for both responsible consumers and consumer policymakers and for all institutions concerned with the creation of sustainable development.
Abstract: The importance of consumption in modern societies is constantly growing. To guide consumer oriented policy, a model of consumption is needed which reflects consumers increased significance. The model of consumption prevailing in the theory of market economies as well as in consumer policy was traditionally based upon the notion of consumers sovereignty. This model served both as a description and as the ethical foundation of the market economy. In the first part of this paper, the authors show the need for a new model of consumption by making clear the descriptive and normative shortcomings of consumer sovereignty. In view of the reality of modern societies, it is neither possible nor ethically justifiable to make purchase decisions according to the individual maximization of utility only. The second part presents the idea, the ethical foundation, and the contents of the new model of "sustainable consumption." This model is proposed to serve as a guideline for both responsible consumers and consumer policymakers and for all institutions concerned with the creation of a sustainable development.
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