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In its focus on the relationships between civil society activity across the political spectrum, communications and democratic change, Global Civil Society 2007/8 explores how activists and organisations are exploiting the effects of globalisation to create or expand spaces for debate and discussion, often using new forms of communications, even in closed regimes such as Burma, Iran and China. In addition to a focus on the civil society activity in illiberal regimes, this edition of the Yearbook examines the effectiveness of democracy promotion efforts by donor organisations and NGOs in transition countries, and how best to reinvigorate democracy in established democratic societies so that citizens can have a greater say in decisions that affect their lives. Global Civil Society 2007/8 is the seventh Yearbook in a series that has become the standard work on all aspects of contemporary global civil society for activists, practitioners, students and academics alike. It is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the key actors, forms and manifestations of global civil society around the world today. The Global Civil Society Yearbook is a collaboration between LSE's Centre for the Study of Global Governance, UCLA's Center for Civil Society and for 2007/8 the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.(About the Book, Publishers Information)
Zivilgesellschaft
(2007)
The Maastricht Treaty set a series of convergence criteria that Member States have to meet to join the euro area. The Treaty is not specific, however, about how to prevent free-riding fiscal behaviour once Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is in place. The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) represents an institutional response.1 Its design includes preventive and corrective mechanisms. The emphasis for the preventive arm rests on the monitoring of Member State behaviour. Euro-area Member States produce Stability Programme updates yearly in the autumn. The European Commission, for its part, assesses the programmes and makes recommendations to the Council of Economic and Finance Ministers (henceforth ‘ECOFIN’) on whether the programmes meet European fiscal objectives, which in particular includes the achievement of budget positions ‘close to balance or in surplus’. In order to move to the formal corrective arm of the Pact, a Member State would have to be found to have an ‘excessive deficit’.
Turkish domestic human rights organizations (HROs) have played a major role in developing a human rights discourse by using human rights as an interpretive framework to criticize, resist, and reform domestic political, social, and economic arrangements. This chapter contends that since 1986, domestic Turkish HROs have been major actors in the development of a domestically grown human rights perspective in Turkish politics. They have introduced framing issues as human rights issues and paved the way in fostering a culture of minimum guarantees and protections that any individual ought to enjoy within the Turkish political community.
Reform, Zurückdrängung, Abschaffung, Auflösung – wie geht es weiter mit dem Staat? Wie ist es um seine demokratische Legitimation, die Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Zukunft bestellt? Kann er seine klassischen Aufgaben, Sicherheit im Innern und nach außen, Garantie sozialer Gerechtigkeit, noch erfüllen? Diese Fragen machen deutlich: Angelegenheiten des angeblich bürgerfernen Staates treffen in das Zentrum des Alltags des einzelnen.
Von A wie Abfall bis Z wie Zulassung von Fahrzeugen, von äußerer Sicherheit und Krieg über Verbrechensbekämpfung und Terrorabwehr zu Nahverkehr und Autobahn und Verbraucher- oder Umweltschutz – der Staat gilt als all- und endverantwortlich. In seinem »Goldenen Zeitalter« in den sechziger Jahren des 20.Jahrhunderts vermochte er diese Aufgaben als souveräner Nationalstaat mit unangetasteter Legitimität zu bewältigen. Das ist heute nicht mehr der Fall. Es entsteht zwar weder ein Weltstaat, noch wird das Gewaltmonopol zum Privateigentum. Aber der Staat zerfasert unübersehbar: Einzelne Funktionen werden an internationale Organisationen abgegeben, wieder andere an Unternehmen.
Die Diagnose der Gegenwart und eine empirisch fundierte Prognose der Zukunft des Staates sind das Anliegen der neun Untersuchungen, die zu der Schlußfolgerung gelangen: Wir werden eine Vielzahl von einschneidenden Transformationen erleben, und es stellt sich die Frage, ob man den Staat der Zukunft überhaupt noch Staat nennen kann.
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Trade Unions
(2006)