A. Deutschland Und Die Westlichen Demokratien

Fraenkel, Ernst

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“…Flawed as it may have been, the totalitarianism debate in politics (Arendt 1951, Friedrich andBrzezinski 1956;Fraenkel [1964Fraenkel [ ] 1991, and the debate about the nature of dictatorships in history (Furet 1999, Kershaw and Lewin 1997, Kershaw 1998 at least raised the level of awareness. Sociology, in contrast, seems a long way away and has maybe even a longer way to go.…”

Section: More Lessons From the Pastmentioning

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Sociology and Communism: Coming to Terms with a Discipline’s Past

Fleck

Heß

2011

Comp Sociol

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In this introduction we provide a brief overview over the various periods of the sociological engagement with communism. We argue that the relationship has often been an uneasy, in some cases even a highly questionable one. However, on occasion the discipline also produced some decent research on the subject of communism. We conclude that it is still a long way to a proper sociology of communism worthy of the name.The relationship between communism and sociology was never an easy one. Ardent worshipers of communism despised bourgeois scholarship and held sociology responsible for pulling the wool over brave working men's eyes. In contrast, skeptical sociologists often disapproved of the voluntarism of Bolshevik revolutionaries and condemned the pseudoscientific aspirations of Marxist-Leninist philosophy.Putting aside the early history of communism from the days of the Communist Manifesto, this issue of Comparative Sociology will concentrate on and discuss the rise and fall of Soviet-type models of communism and how they relate specifically to the academic field of sociology. We use the term 'communism' as standing for a deliberately created state and a planned society, ruled by one party and suppressing the formation of opposite

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Section: More Lessons From the Pastmentioning

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Sociology and Communism: Coming to Terms with a Discipline’s Past

Fleck

Heß

2011

Comp Sociol

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“…On this view, the common good is not the outcome of the action of citizens oriented to the common good, but rather what emerges as the well-known 'resultant' of the dynamic interplay of economic, social, political and ideological forces and contextual conditions that actually play a role in the public life of a society. 29 The rules of the game in a pluralist democracy, in other words, and not citizens who are motivated by republican virtue and judicious insight, are what bring forth the common good as a quantity that is never finalized, but always remains provisional, pending the outcome of the next election. 'Constitutional democracy as a codified framework is thus itself the essential content of realizing the common good.'…”

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Whose good is the common good?

Offe

2012

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Reference to the common good has increased in recent political discourse, not only on the right but also on the left. This development partly reflects genuine limitations in the liberal model of politics, and thus should not be dismissed as mere rhetoric. However, appeals to the common good face four difficulties: its social referent; its temporal horizon; its substantive content; and its authoritative identification. The article concludes with a modest suggestion for understanding the common good in complex societies.Keywords common good, Gemeinwohl, public good, public interest, republicanism, Sittlichkeit 'Common good' -how surprising the renaissance of this concept, particularly the role it seems to play on the left side of the political spectrum. The concept is popular not only with conservatives who conceive the social order in terms of natural law, but also recently with the political leaders of the 'new center' and the 'third way'. Striking on both sides is the bold republican pathos that accompanies talk of the common good in the singular. 1 There is nothing new in the fact that central ideas and conceptions of social order are advertised as versions of the common good in the spirit of a reflexive pluralism, in the awareness of the irremediable contestability of all substantive interpretations of the common good. Every interpretation of the common good is only one reading among many, proposed in the knowledge that it must compete with rival interpretations. What is striking, however, and rather unexpected on the political left, 2 is talk of 'the' common good in the singular, which suggests a definitive clarity that brooks no dissent. Proponents of such a common good, which is allegedly clear and uncontested, rise imperiously above the contest of mere special interests and particular

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“…Pasamos ahora al tema de la democracia directa. En el marco de una democracia moderna no existe incompatibilidad entre los elementos representativos y plebiscitarios de participación política (Fraenkel, 1964). Los mecanismos de participación directa del electorado pueden completar y profundizar la democracia, sobre todo en la dimensión de la legitimidad de las decisiones políticas.…”

Section: Reformas Constitucionales Y Principio Mayoritario En Amérunclassified

Principio mayoritario y regímenes presidenciales en América Latina

Nohlen¹

2016

Rev. Estud. Polít.

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Este artículo indaga el principio mayoritario, su naturaleza y sus alcances en el desarrollo político en diferentes contextos. Incurre en la diferencia que marcan las formas de gobierno y se demuestra cómo en las democracias parlamentarias europeas el alcance del principio mayoritario ha sido cada vez más limitado mientras que en las democracias presidenciales latinoamericanas ha ocurrido todo lo contrario. En las reformas constitucionales recientes se ha fortalecido su significado. En algunos países, el principio mayoritario ha sido llevado a enfrentarse en la práctica con otros principios claves del orden pluralista del Estado de derecho hasta sobrepasar los límites tolerables para poder seguir considerarlos democracias. Se demuestra que el discurso científico, político y de defensa de los derechos humanos ha permanecido bastante insensible a esta creciente disparidad entre distintos tipos de régimen presidencial. Texto base revisado y aumentado de la conferencia ofrecida el día 26 de noviembre de 2014 en Lima en el marco de la Cátedra Democracia del Jurado Nacional de Elecciones, acto en el que el autor fue galardonado por parte del Supremo Tribunal Electoral del Perú con la Medalla al Mérito Cívico en el grado de Defensor de la Democracia.

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A. Deutschland Und Die Westlichen Demokratien

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Sociology and Communism: Coming to Terms with a Discipline’s Past

Sociology and Communism: Coming to Terms with a Discipline’s Past

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