Reflections on the Role of Bemusement in Institutional Disruption

2019 ◽  
pp. 105649261987227
Author(s):  
Russ Vince
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Dynamics ◽  
Stability Order ◽  
Institutional Order

In this essay, I reflect on the disruptive potential of bemusement. When people are bemused, we feel confused or bewildered. We can also feel wry pleasure, especially if we are bemused by something perplexing, that confounds expectations or norms. I explore how the affective tensions of bemusement can unsettle persons’ emotional investment in institutional order. I argue that disruption arises from surfacing the absurdities that are part of what is accepted as normal, and I illustrate this with a discussion of the “Dismaland Bemusement Park.” I assert the importance of confounding stability, order, and rationality by recognizing the parallel existence of confusion, absurdity, and illogics. Practical access to these parallel dynamics arises from the art of cultural subversion. Such an art both politicizes and gives pleasure to those involved in disruption and it embraces the ensuing confusion as a critique—as a potentially insightful twist on institutional order.

scholarly journals Role of the Shareholder in Construction of an Institutional Order in the Company

2017 ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
S. I. Lutsenko
Keyword(s):  
Shareholder Value ◽  
Accurate Description ◽  
Institutional Model ◽  
Institutional Order

Setting up an institutional body will allow to balance interests between interested participants in the company (first of all between management and shareholders). Introduction of an institutional order is reached by means of an establishment of the accurate game rules fixed in internal documents (the charter, corporate positions). The author tries to design institutional model of behavior of participants with their accurate description competencies and responsibility which will allow to protect from destruction of «shareholder value».

Ideology and International Institutions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Voeten
Keyword(s):  
International Institutions ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multilateral Institutions ◽  
Militarized Conflicts ◽  
Rising Power ◽  
Institutional Order

Today's liberal international institutional order is being challenged by the rising power of illiberal states and by domestic political changes inside liberal states. Against such a backdrop, this book offers a broader understanding of international institutions by arguing that the politics of multilateralism has always been based on ideology and ideological divisions. The book develops new theories and measures to make sense of past and current challenges to multilateral institutions. It presents a straightforward theoretical framework that analyzes multilateral institutions as attempts by states to shift the policies of others toward their preferred ideological positions. It then measures how states have positioned themselves in global ideological conflicts during the past seventy-five years. Empirical chapters illustrate how ideological struggles shape the design of international institutions, membership in international institutions, and the critical role of multilateral institutions in militarized conflicts. The book also examines populism's rise and other ideological threats to the liberal international order. It explores the essential ways in which ideological contestation has influenced world politics.

Possible role of parallel dynamics in the generation of 150-km echoes in the equatorial ionosphere

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Alam Kherani ◽  
Eurico R. de Paula ◽  
M. Mathews ◽  
J.H. Sobral
Keyword(s):  
Equatorial Ionosphere ◽  
Parallel Dynamics

scholarly journals Zur Legitimität von Staatlichkeit: Eine kosmopolitische Kritik offener Grenzen

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Nida-Rümelin
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Commodity Markets ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Location Factor ◽  
Migratory Movements ◽  
Institutional Order

AbstractBorders are a constitutive feature of states. Political agency would, therefore, come into conflict with a practice of open borders. This is equally true for the dynamics of unleashed global financial and commodity markets as well as for a global labour market. An unregulated mobility of capital, goods, and people would erode the agency of states and diminish politics to a mere location factor. In the following, I argue in favor of the legitimacy of (state) borders and political control over migratory movements, however, not from a communitarian or even nationalist perspective, but from a cosmopolitan one. Political cosmopolitanism differs from sociological, economic, or cultural variants with regard to the role of politics. While other kinds of cosmopolitanism generally understand globalisation as weakening the agency of states, political cosmopolitanism strives for the establishment of a global institutional order, which allows for democratically legitimised political agency beyond the nation-state. The question is what institutional governance of migration is legitimate in a cosmopolitan framework. The following text discusses the political theory (part 1) and some preliminary philosophical-ethical aspects (part 2) of this topic.

scholarly journals Pozycja ustrojowa Prezydenta RP w systemie konstytucyjnym Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w kontekście członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej

Politeja ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4(61)) ◽  
pp. 257-279
Author(s):  
Anna Budzanowska
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Government Administration ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Constitutional System ◽  
Institutional Order

The Constitutional Role of the President of the Republic of Poland in the Context of Membership of the European Union The article presents a synthetic analysis of issues related to the constitutional position of the President of the Republic of Poland in constitutional and institutional order in the context of Poland’s membership in the structures of the European Union. The text mentions the basics of not only legal but also functional elements of the constitutional system. The purpose of this article is also to indicate how much the constitutional model of the executive bodies is sufficient to resolving problematic political issues when there is a particular kind of relationship between the head of state and the government administration.

scholarly journals The role of the Judicial Morgue in Argentinas state terrorism: bureaucratic circuits of repression (1976–83)

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-55
Author(s):  
María José Sarrabayrouse Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Justice System ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
State Terrorism ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Administrative Proceedings ◽  
The Military ◽  
Institutional Order

The military coup of March 1976 in Argentina ruptured the prevailing institutional order, with the greater part of its repressive strategy built on clandestine practices and tactics (death, torture and disappearance) that sowed fear across large swathes of Argentine society. Simultaneously, the terrorist state established a parallel, de facto legal order through which it endeavoured to legitimise its actions. Among other social forces, the judicial branch played a pivotal role in this project of legitimisation. While conscious of the fact that many of those inside the justice system were also targets of oppression, I would like to argue that the dictatorship‘s approach was not to establish a new judicial authority but, rather, to build upon the existing institutional structure, remodelling it to suit its own interests and objectives. Based on an analysis of the criminal and administrative proceedings that together were known as the Case of the judicial morgue, this article aims to examine the ways in which the bodies of the detained-disappeared that entered the morgue during the dictatorship were handled, as well as the rationales and practices of the doctors and other employees who played a part in this process. Finally, it aims to reflect upon the traces left by judicial and administrative bureaucratic structures in relation to the crimes committed by the dictatorship, and on the legal strategies adopted by lawyers and the families of the victims.

scholarly journals authenticity as an inarticulate ideal in the contemporary discourse of good childhoods

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 01-28
Author(s):  
Luiz Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Personal Projects ◽  
Initial Investigation ◽  
Parallel Dynamics ◽  
Role Of Parents

This paper consists of an initial investigation about the meaning of a good childhood following the ethical ideal of authenticity. In this introduction to a philosophy of childhood and authenticity, the central theme is to investigate how the authenticity ideal is already presupposed in the contemporary discourse on what constitutes a good childhood. In the emerging field of philosophy of childhood, the capacities of children for agency, autonomy, and committing and the fundamental role of parents in guaranteeing possibilities to exercise them are being increasingly highlighted, together with a discourse that there are some intrinsic goods of childhood. These developments parallel contemporary reconstructions of authenticity as an ethical ideal. Current debates emphasize the importance of a person finding, creating and constructing their originality, and how to realize it. At the same time, this search must recognize demands emanating from something more than human desires: from one’s culture and community. The parallel dynamics between these two discourses - children-parent and individual-society - point to a direction that applying the concept of authenticity to the construction of novel interpretations and practices of a good childhood can bring fruitful results. After examining such parallels, some of these practices that emerge from the analysis of good childhoods as authentic childhood are pointed out, such as the importance of cultivating children’s moments of caring and committing, and the development of personal projects. The paper concludes by exploring some limitations of the applied methodology and how it can be a strength in future research on this topic.

scholarly journals Over-the-top and under the radar

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Sofie Flensburg
Keyword(s):  
Web Based ◽  
The Press ◽  
Postal Services ◽  
One To One ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over The Top ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Institutional Order

Abstract The article traces the evolution of over-the-top (OTT) services in order to analyse how the growing use of Internet distribution influences the structural conditions and institutional arrangements in Denmark. This story is told in four parts: first, I outline how the shift from postal services to e-mail restructured the conditions for asynchronous one-to-one communication; second, I examine the introduction of web-based services and the declining role of the press as gatekeeper for asynchronous one-to-many communication; third, I focus on the impact of mobile broadband and smartphones on synchronous one-to-one communication and the telecommunications sector; and fourth, I analyse the emergence of streaming technologies and the reorganisation of synchronous one-to-many communication and broadcasting. Building on these examples, I argue that key welfare state principles have come under pressure and that research tends to underestimate the fundamental transformations of the institutional order.

Ewolucja roli państwa w gospodarce i społeczeństwie – analiza i ocena niebezpieczeństw

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Wilkin
Keyword(s):  
Choice Theory ◽  
Social Choice Theory ◽  
Methodological Individualism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Institutional Order

The complexity of the state’s functions and their relationships with economic activities are best analyzed within the political economy, although the social choice theory or methodological individualism are dominant approaches of the mainstream economics. In this chapter, we analyze the role of the state in creating the institutional order and realizing development goals. To this end, we refer to the functional triad of values–standards–goods. The triad also becomes a conceptual framework for seizing the importance of the market and civil society in the inspection and disciplining of the state’s activity.

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