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Normative Implications (normative + implication)

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Humanities and Social Sciences40%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting40%

Selected Abstracts

State Collapse and its Implications for Peace,Building and Reconstruction

DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 5 2002
Alexandros Yannis
At the beginning of the twenty,first century, terms such as state collapse and failed states are becoming familiar, regularly used in international politics to describe a new and frightening challenge to international security. The dramatic events of September 11 have pushed the issue of collapsed states further into the limelight. This article has two aims. Firstly, it explains the contextual factors that gave rise to the phenomenon of state collapse. In the early post,Cold War period, state collapse was usually viewed as a regional phenomenon, and concerns were mainly limited to humanitarian consequences for the local population and destabilizing effects on neighbouring countries. Now, state collapse is seen in a more global context, and concerns are directed at the emergence of groups of non,state actors who are hostile to the fundamental values and interests of the international society such as peace, stability, rule of law, freedom and democracy. Secondly, the article offers some observations about the normative implications of the phenomenon of state collapse for peace,building and reconstruction. [source]

The "right distance" when dealing with violence

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL, Issue 174 2002
Sandrine Lefranc
The issue of the researcher's relationship with the subject of ,extreme violence' is approached here from the point of view not of subjective motivations, but of the scientific rule of distanc-ing which, in the absence of specific epistemo-logical recommendations, seems to apply in this case as in others. At times of ,exit' from violence, when a repressive authoritarian regime is replaced by a democratic government, the ,right Distance' of the researcher has particular consequences: it may coincide with the tenets of governmental ,reconciliation' policies, in particular the injunction to victims to weigh their demands against the need for pacification in the general interest. This convergence - which does not necessarily involve collusion - shows how difficult it is to find the right stance towards the subject of ,violence': epistemological rules cannot be dissociated from a particular political context and from a social relationship with violence, and may thus have normative implications. [source]

Nodal Governance, Democracy, and the New ,Denizens'

JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 3 2003
Clifford Shearing
We begin this paper by reviewing some recent transformations in governance. We then propose three new concepts that we believe assist us in coming to terms with these transformations and the political statuses that have emerged as part of them. These concepts are ,nodal governance', ,denizens', and ,communal space'. Following this we will explore the normative implications of nodal governance as it has taken shape to date, with an emphasis on the ,governance disparity' that is paralleling the ,wealth disparity' across the globe. In response to this disparity, we will end with an outline of a normative vision and practical programme aimed at deepening democracy in poor areas of South Africa, Argentina, and elsewhere. We will argue that the main virtue of nodal governance, namely, the emphasis on local capacity and knowledge can be retrieved, reaffirmed, and reinstitutionalized in ways that enhance the self-direction of poor communities while strengthening their ,collective capital'. [source]

Real Wage Rigidities and the New Keynesian Model

JOURNAL OF MONEY, CREDIT AND BANKING, Issue 2007
OLIVIER BLANCHARD
oil price shocks; inflation targeting; monetary policy; inflation inertia Most central banks perceive a trade-off between stabilizing inflation and stabilizing the gap between output and desired output. However, the standard new Keynesian framework implies no such trade-off. In that framework, stabilizing inflation is equivalent to stabilizing the welfare-relevant output gap. In this paper, we argue that this property of the new Keynesian framework, which we call the divine coincidence, is due to a special feature of the model: the absence of nontrivial real imperfections. We focus on one such real imperfection, namely, real wage rigidities. When the baseline new Keynesian model is extended to allow for real wage rigidities, the divine coincidence disappears, and central banks indeed face a trade-off between stabilizing inflation and stabilizing the welfare-relevant output gap. We show that not only does the extended model have more realistic normative implications, but it also has appealing positive properties. In particular, it provides a natural interpretation for the dynamic inflation,unemployment relation found in the data. [source]

Efficiency-wage Unemployment and Economic Welfare in a Model of Endogenous Growth

LABOUR, Issue 4 2001
Jürgen Meckl
This paper examines positive and normative implications of efficiency-wage-induced unemployment within a model of endogenous growth. Sector-specific impacts of the wage rate on labour efficiency establish a correlation between the growth rate and the rate of unemployment. The sign of this correlation is determined by the intersectoral wage differential. Despite the existence of unemployment, decisive positive properties of the full-employment model are preserved. However, welfare implications of the full-employment model may be reversed. The optimal policy can be to reduce growth, while at the same time raising unemployment. [source]