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{"title":"The Two Shall Become One: Overcoming the Stalemate between Industrial and Climate Change Policies","authors":"Gaylor Montmasson-Clair","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2747935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2747935","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial development and climate change mitigation have historically been opposed to each other. This is reflected in the industrial and climate change policy frameworks in South Africa. As a result of these two opposing frameworks and the disruptive and complex nature of the necessary transition to a low-carbon economy, the emergence of a climate change regime is seen as a threat and a risk to industrial development. Without immediate and ambitious action, the dichotomy between industrial development and climate change mitigation is moreover due to amplify. This raises the need to overcome the limited prism of analysis focused on incompatibility. This policy brief aims to contribute to filling the gap by investigating the interplay between industrial and climate change policies, the compatibility of the two frameworks and the options to manage the transition. This policy brief first argues that South Africa’s institutional arrangement and policy vision for industrial development and climate change are mainly mutually beneficial and provide an opportunity for a holistic approach. Second, the necessity for South Africa to position the country on short-term trade-offs associated with the cost of the transition is put forward. Third, the need for a strategic discovery and policy impact assessment process is ascertained.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134549798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Role of Political Divestiture for Sustainable Development","authors":"Julia M. Puaschunder","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2691786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2691786","url":null,"abstract":"In the wake of historical and political events, stakeholder pressure can trigger shareholders to divest from politically incorrect markets with the goal of accomplishing socio-political change. While mainstream development research advocates for more private investor involvement in sustainable development to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)s in funding infrastructure, health, education and climate change mitigation; the following paper introduces political divestiture as an alternative means to implement sustainable development. While foreign investment can create positive conditions for improving societal development, also politically incorrect usage of funds or regulatory lacunae can do harm in the developing world. Political divestiture is portrayed as an innovative investment allocation to maximize positive development impacts of investment whilst minimizing associated risks of politically insecure markets. In an attempt to balance risk and access to capital, political divestiture is proposed as a means to implement sustainable development by removing funds from politically incorrect regimes in order to be channeled towards socially responsible and sustainable finance solutions. Future research outlooks on political divestiture as sustainable development driver comprise the antecedents and success factors as well as institutional and international frameworks to foster Financial Social Responsibility in the long-term international development domain.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130624456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Прозрачность в Обществе и Финансах: Вред Или Благо? (Transparency in Society and Finance: Harm or Avail?)","authors":"O. N. Volkova","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2675330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2675330","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: Предмет/тема. Технологии прозрачности и подотчетности в последние два десятилетия проникли во все сферы социальной жизни и финансовые практики. Управленческие системы, характеризующиеся прозрачностью и подотчетностью, рассматриваются как бесспорно эффективные образцы для подражания и дальнейшего совершенствования. Тем не менее, рост прозрачности ведет и к определенным дисфункциям, которые в отечественной научной литературе обсуждаются крайне редко и бессистемно. Необходимость соблюдения баланса достоинств и дисфункций, характерных для механизмов прозрачности, при создании и оценке эффективности социально-экономических систем определяет тему данной работы.Цели/задачи: Работа посвящена анализу содержания концептов прозрачности и подотчетности в различных социально-экономических дискурсах, а также критическому анализу практик прозрачности и подотчетности в организациях и на рынках.Методология. Основным методом исследования в работе является критический дискурс-анализ. В разделе работы, посвященном анализу терминологии, использованы методы лингвистического анализа.Результаты: В работе обсуждаются понятия прозрачности, счетности, подотчетности по отношению к социально-экономическим практикам, в том числе, к управлению экономическими единицами. Показано, каким образом прозрачность проявляется в дискурсах власти, управления финансами, организации контроля в социально-экономических системах: посредством квантификации, объективизации, стандартизации, процедур контроля и аудита. Систематизированы основные достоинства и дисфункции механизмов прозрачности в обществе. Выводы/значимость. В работе систематизированы подходы к определению концептов прозрачности и подотчетности в разных социально-экономических дискурсах, сгруппированы их достоинства и недостатки. В качестве наиболее серьезных дисфункций механизмов прозрачности обсуждаются подмена реальности «картинкой», оценка акторов по этой «картинке» вместо их реальной результативности, нивелирование профессиональных и этических ценностей, потеря контроля за ситуацией в ситуациях нестабильности. Отмечается важность оценки этих дисфункций и их последствий при дизайне социально-экономических систем.English Abstract: Importance Transparency and accountability got into all spheres of social life and financial practices in the past two decades. Social systems which are characterized as transparent and the accountable are considered as undoubtedly effective models and further improvement. Nevertheless, the progress of transparency conducts some dysfunctions which also require discussion. Objectives The purpose of the article is to analyze transparency and accountability concepts in various discourses and to interpret these terms in Russian. The critical analysis of transparency and accountability practices is submitted. Methods The Critical Discourse-Analysis is used as the main method of research. The methods of linguistic analysis are applied too when Russian and English concepts’ correspondence i","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127085582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Reasoning and Social Policy","authors":"M. Asher","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2638939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2638939","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing consensus that in the 21st century, broad based economic growth with social harmony would be difficult to pursue without progress in social development. This paper focuses on how incorporating economic reasoning in social policy analysis and discussions could assist in improving design, implementation, and assessment of social programs and schemes. Such incorporation could contribute to better societal outcomes and effectiveness of social policies. The paper provides three inter-related frameworks, for thinking about household welfare, for generating fiscal space, and for diagnosing overall economic growth, or for sector specific constraints, which could be applied to specific contexts of social policy. Their application could assist in pursuing social policies in a more systemic and integrated manner, with requisite understanding of the trade‑offs involved in social policy choices.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116920764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cabildo Elite Network as a Structure of Political Power in Colonial Buenos Aires","authors":"L. del Valle, J. Larrosa","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2626859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2626859","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to show the relationship between the nominations for seats in the Cabildo of Buenos Aires between 1776 and 1810, and the network status of council individuals and families. We test hypothesis on the importance of networks metrics of elite individuals and families with political positions in the council. We find that actors and families with higher degree are statistically associated with diverse indicators of political power.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123112496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiculturalism in France: Overview, Problems, Conditions of International Immigrants and Second Generation Youth in French Societies","authors":"Jahanzeb Mughal","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2697547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2697547","url":null,"abstract":"The world has become a global village and all nationals have got opportunity to visit various parts of the world due to advancement of travelling and communication technologies for the purpose of trade, education, business or trade. Somehow, the main reason to travel for majority of population stands to earn a good earning that is creating trouble for many nations and France is among top of the list. France has emerged as a multi-cultural nation and many of its societies have been based on multi-cultural intruders. The country is thinking to tackle the issue but all in vein and inacceptable by the concerned. The illegal immigrants are demanding to be issued permanent residence of France and identification cards as per the country rules but most injured nation stands the Muslim societies. The whole Europe looks at Muslims with an eye of hatred and consider them threat to their safety especially after the 9/11 attacks on twin-towers of New York City. Our article depicts highlight on the history of establishment of France as a Multi-cultural nation and the challenges it is being faced with.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131722474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Противоречие Принципов Формирования и Функционирования Органов Публичной Власти (Discrepancy Principles of the Formation and Activities of the Public Authorities)","authors":"Andrey Pavlovich Zabaykalov","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2542748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2542748","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: В статье рассмотрено противоречие между двумя принципами формирования и деятельности органов власти: подлинности народного голосования и стабильности и непрерывности осуществления публичной власти. English Abstract: The article tells us about discrepancy between two principles of the formation and activities of the government: authentication nationwide vote and continuity implementation public power.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122661887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gendered Politics and Economic Policy Making:The Case of Public Expenditures on Family Allowances","authors":"Oznur Ozdamar","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2478638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2478638","url":null,"abstract":"Parliament is the place where elected politicians make laws to set the policy direction of countries. The failure of the involvement of different voices such as gender, race, ethnicity and class in policy-making may prove the existence of an unequality in political decisions. Regarding gender, there has been a sufficient amount of empirical evidence in the literature that women and men may have different policy preferences. Their common argument is that women are more likely than men give priority to public policies related to their traditional roles as care givers to children in the family. Public spending on family allowances is one of the family-specific social policies that play an important role in helping families for the childcare and the child rising. This paper, therefore, have analyzed the relationship between female political representation in the OECD parliaments and the resource allocation towards public spending on family allowances. Overall findings are driven by the fact that the fraction of female parliamentarians over the thirty years across OECD countries have not been sufficient for a possible gender effect in policy-making on family allowances. In fact, the fraction of female politicians is above a certain threshold (30%) shows a significantly different allocation of public spending on family allowances. In other words, women’s representation may need to reach a certain critical mass threshold to make an impact on the policy decision process.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114480049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Political Economy of Geographical Indications","authors":"K. Deconinck, Martijn Huysmans, J. Swinnen","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2530427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2530427","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we study the political process that governs the creation and size of new Geographical Indications (GIs). Producers can choose to apply for a GI and subsequently go through a bargaining process with the government. We derive the optimal GI area from the point of view of consumers, producers, social welfare, and the government; and we show how bargaining leads to a GI size in between the applicant’s optimum and the government’s optimum. Under the assumption that the non-GI good is a commodity, any GI implemented through the political process is welfare-enhancing, but not all welfare-enhancing GIs will be proposed by producers.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121379496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics as a Peculiar Business: Additive vs. Entangled Political Economy","authors":"R. Wagner","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2491118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2491118","url":null,"abstract":"This is a preliminary draft of the third of what will be eight chapters in a book titled Politics as a Peculiar Business: Public Choice in a System of Entangled Political Economy. This chapter contrasts two approaches to working with the compound noun “political economy.” The standard, additive framework treats polity and economy as distinct objects, and with polity intervening into economy to change its attributes. The alternative, entangled framework treats polity and economy as comprising a single system that is only partially decomposable into separate subsystems. This alternative framework sets forth an alternative treatment of property rights and of the capital accounts of political enterprises.","PeriodicalId":258423,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Theorizing Politics & Power (Political) (Topic)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123927047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}