Local Government: A Social Ontology of Care

J. Wessels
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Setting out to determine what ‘local government’ is and how it can be understood, I conducted an analysis of the concept ‘local government’ by identifying its institutional, behavioural and territorial attributes. This analysis informed an ontological description of the nature of local government and the underlying assumptions about this reality. Ontological, local government, as a collection of ‘Dasein’ with an immanent tension between anxiety and care, may simultaneously be viewed as being a social collective of individuals, an institution consisting of individuals, and a social action or intervention performed by caring individuals. The description of the nature of local government provides a point of departure for describing and comparing this reality as situated in different contexts. It also serves as a proposed menu for the questioning and challenging of underlying assumptions about local government. The value of this social ontology of care lies in the description of the nature of the reality of local government situated in different contexts. Furthermore, it serves as an agenda for questioning and challenging the underlying assumptions about local government within different contexts.
地方政府:关怀的社会本体论
为了确定什么是 "地方政府 "以及如何理解 "地方政府",我对 "地方政府 "这一概念进行了分 析,确定了其制度、行为和地域属性。这一分析为从本体论角度描述地方政府的性质以及对这一现实的基本假设提供了依据。在本体论上,地方政府作为 "Dasein "的集合体,在焦虑与关怀之间存在着内在的张力,可以同时被视为一个由个人组成的社会集体、一个由个人组成的机构,以及一个由有关怀的个人实施的社会行动或干预。对地方政府性质的描述为描述和比较不同背景下的现实提供了一个出发点。同时,它也是对有关地方政府的基本假设提出质疑和挑战的拟议菜单。这种社会关怀本体论的价值在于描述了不同背景下地方政府的现实性质。此外,它还是质疑和挑战不同背景下地方政府基本假设的议程。
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