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| | Richard Sandbrook - Research |
 | | I edited and contributed to Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide (Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming 2002), which is inspired by a vision of a social-democratic globalization that contrasts with the dominant neoliberal vision. | | | The latter distinction lies in the compression of the phases of industrialization, democratization, and extensions of social citizenship in the global south, whereas in Europe these phases occurred sequentially over the course of nearly a century. | | | Globalization, which features as a major constraint on development policy in my current research on social democracy, directly occupied my research energies during 2000-2002. |
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http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~sandbroo/research.htm
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| | Social Solidarity, Democracy and Global Capitalism |
| | Although the value of these forms of existing social capital is massive, it is not large enough to transform the economy, even if these funds were transformed to democratic control and to social goals. | | | One element of relative continuity is that the values and aspirations of democratic-egalitarian social movements have remained similar. | | | Even if social capital were to become dominant in one or several countries, they would still not be free from global economic pressures emanating from transnationals and global financial institutions. |
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http://www.ola.bc.ca/online/cf/documents/CWlaxe.html
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| | Political parties and leaders. The World Factbook. 2003 |
| | Independence Party or IP [David ODDSSON]; Left-Green Alliance or LGP [Steingrimur SIGFUSSON]; Liberal Party or LP [Gudjon KRISTJANSSON]; Progressive Party or PP [Halldor ASGRIMSSON]; Social Democratic Alliance (includes People's Alliance or PA, Social Democratic Party or SDP, Women's List)or SDA [Ossur SKARPHEDINSSON]; Social Democratic Party or SDP [Sighvatur BJORGVINSSON]; Women's List or WL [Kristin ASTGEIRSDOTTIR] | | | Bloc Quebecois [Gilles DUCEPPE]; Canadian Alliance [Stephen HARPER]; Liberal Party [Jean CHRETIEN]; New Democratic Party [Jack LAYTON]; Progressive Conservative Party [Peter MACKAY] | | | Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally or PDCI-RDA [Aime Henri Konan BEDIE]; Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Laurent GBAGBO]; Ivorian Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Rally of the Republicans or RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and Peace or UDPCI [leader NA]; over 20 smaller parties |
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http://www.bartleby.com/151/fields/54.html
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| | Social democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A great many social democratic parties have adopted policies of the centrist Third Way, which supports a deregulated economy and emphasises equality of opportunity as the benchmark for social equity. | | | Modern social democrats are generally in favor of a mixed economy, which should be mainly capitalistic but with governmental provision of certain social services. | | | Economic conservative's and classic liberal's argue that social democracy interferes with market mechanisms and hurts the economy by encouraging large budget deficits and restricting the ability of entrepreneurs to invest as they see fit. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-democracy
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| | Social market economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | From the 1960s, the social market economy was the main economic model in mainland Western Europe, pursued by administrations of both the centre right (usually led by Christian Democratic parties) and the centre left (usually led by Labour, Social Democrat or Socialist parties). | | | The social market economy steeres a middle path between socialism and liberalism and aimes at maintaining a balance between a high rate of economic growth, low inflation, low levels of unemployment, good working conditions, public welfare and public services by using state intervention. | | | I-3 of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe The Union shall work for the sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy
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| | Document/Essai - Nancy Thede - Democratic Development 1990-2000: An Overview - 2002 |
| | The issue of democratic institutions of global governance as a necessary step to protect the increasingly threatened global commons is now firmly on the agenda of social movements and many governments. | | | The critique of globalization is generating new perspectives on the weaknesses of democratic institutions and processes, both in new democracies and in established ones. | | | We know that even in established democracies globalization is leading to the development and aggravation of a democratic deficit, characterized amongst other things by the erosion of legislative oversight of policy decisions at the national level. |
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http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/demDev/ddOverview10Years.html
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| | Anti-globalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Members of the anti-globalization movement generally advocate socialist or social democratic alternatives to capitalist economics, and seek to protect the world's population and ecosystem from what they believe to be the damaging effects of globalization. | | | Anti-globalization militants worried for the proper functioning of democratic institutions as the leaders of many democratic countries (Spain, Italy, Poland) were acting against the wishes of the majorities of their populations in supporting the war. | | | The anti-globalization movement developed in the late twentieth century to combat the globalization of corporate economic activity and the free trade with developing nations that might result from such activity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-globalization_movement
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| | Social Credit |
| | The Social Credit party was decisively rejected in the 1971 Alberta election, in favour of Peter Lougheed's Conservatives. | | | If banks were put under social control, this under-consumption could be remedied by distributing a "cultural dividend" to all citizens, also known as a social credit, thus giving the ordinary citizen greater usable income. | | | By 1978, Social Credit had ceased to be a serious contender in Alberta provincial elections. |
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http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/roots/social_credit.html
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| | FedNor - Social Economy Backgrounder |
| | It is also ‘social’ in that its main objective is to meet the needs of the community, including disadvantaged or vulnerable members, and because of the values (democratic process, collective empowerment, etc.) on which its governance and operation are based. | | | The social economy is ‘economic&; in that it involves the production of goods or services and their sale in the market economy. | | | The social economy is relevant to the Government of Canada from a variety of policy perspectives. |
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http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/infednor-fednor.nsf/en/fn02344e.html
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| | Glossary of Terms: So |
| | Promotion of the concept of social wage invariably means arguing against fighting for pay rises, and is based on the assumption that class struggle is a bad thing; better to use the democratic process to elect social democrats to government and legislate improvements in the social wage. | | | The methods of social control and integration may be: regulation, commodification, education and ideology, or democratisation. | | | Social democrats often say that the most effective way of defending and improving workers’ living standards is not to award pay rises, but to increase the benefits that workers receive via state services. |
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/o.htm
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| | Canadian social credit movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Quebec separatism stymied the rise of the provincial Creditistes due to the Parti Quebecois ' attraction to nationalist voters from the right and left despite the PQ's own social democratic leanings. | | | Social Credit was never able to top 16% of the vote. | | | Social Credit formed nine consecutive majority governments spanning 36 years, one of the longest spans of a single party in government in Canadian history. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_social_credit_movement
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| | Glossary of Terms: So |
| | Promotion of the concept of social wage invariably means arguing against fighting for pay rises, and is based on the assumption that class struggle is a bad thing; better to use the democratic process to elect social democrats to government and legislate improvements in the social wage. | | | Social democrats often say that the most effective way of defending and improving workers’ living standards is not to award pay rises, but to increase the benefits that workers receive via state services. | | | The methods of social control and integration may be: regulation, commodification, education and ideology, or democratisation. |
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http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/o.htm
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| | Course Outline |
| | Democratization and democratic governance are complex and demanding political tasks in themselves but these are further complicated by the global transformations which are reshaping the social and political fabric of societies. | | | Another important aspect of democratic discourse and governance in some of the advanced countries is the politics of identity and culture. | | | The absences of a restraining sovereign and regulatory governance are precipitating genocide, terrorism and unilateral impulses in the global context. |
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http://www.hhh.umn.edu/academics/syllabi/2005/pa5012-4.htm
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| | Ryan Social Credit Debate April 1999 |
| | As the Social Credit engineer Major Clifford Douglas said, be democratic all you want in deciding where you want your bridge but once that's decided, then leave the building of it up to the dictatorial civil engineer. | | | Furthermore, I was not only a member of the Social Credit Party of Canada who was evicted from the party for protesting too forcefully leader Martin Hattersley changed the party policy to condone 6% interest but I then formed and led the Social Credit Party of Ontario which continued to advocate 0%. | | | As Adelard often proudly stated, he was the only person in his whole village to have voted Social Credit back in 1935 so my family has a long and proud Social Credit heritage. |
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http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/ryan1.htm
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| | Social Security |
| | "Regardless of how you usually vote, do you think the Republican Party or the Democratic Party is more likely to make the right decisions about Social Security?" | | | He proposes that future increases in Social Security benefits would be smaller for most Americans, but people with the lowest incomes would continue receiving increases in their benefits as they do now. | | | People would be offered the option of investing some of their Social Security taxes in personal accounts. |
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http://www.pollingreport.com/social.htm
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| | IS SOCIAL CHANGE MEDIA A DELUSION? - California Newsreel at 30 and 2000 |
| | As social change media texts become more integrated into their context, that context, social life, will become more "textualized," more articulated and problematized, as a subject for democratic discussion. | | | Perhaps we should declare a moratorium on social change filmmaking until we establish procedures which insure productions will be accountable to organizing needs and can function as integrated parts of long-term strategies for social change. | | | I can already hear some producers objecting that accountability to social change organizing would impinge upon their independence just as much as accountability to the market. |
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http://www.newsreel.org/articles/socialme.htm
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| | 2002 Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Summaries Social Enterprise |
| | Social Enterprise Fund of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | | | While benefiting the organizations and communities they serve, students were also able to develop their skills in a challenging management environment and explore future involvement in social enterprise. | | | Catalyst Alliance's mission is to effect lasting social change by partnering with nonprofit organizations to create entrepreneurial, efficient, and sustainable approaches to their missions, while mobilizing a strong network of committed social entrepreneurs. |
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http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/summer/2002summaries.html
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| | The social economy is no panacea for social exclusion |
| | The role of social science in policymaking, the democratic deficit, direct action and political parties; the provision of services; the changing role of trade unions and personnel departments will be under the spotlight. | | | The term social economy is commonly used to denote the market for services sold by not-for-profit organisations in response to local welfare needs not met by the state or the private sector. | | | The study concludes that social enterprises in the right places and with the relevant support do have a role to play in complementing provision and regeneration via the state and the market. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-11/esr-te110201.php
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| | Pitirim Sorokin - Social Mobility |
| | This greater mobility is probably one of the causes of the belief that the social building of democratic societies is not stratified, or is less stratified, than that of autocratic societies. | | | In pointing out this considerable mobility of the democratic societies, a reservation must be made at the same time, for not always, and not in all "democratic" societies, is the vertical mobility greater than in the "autocratic" ones. | | | By horizontal social mobility or shifting, is meant the transition of an individual or social object from one social group to another situated on the same level. |
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http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Sorokin/SOCMOBLT.HTML
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| | The Democracy Deficit: Taming Globalization Through Law Reform. |
| | Political scientists interested, for example, in globalization and its effect on national democratic institutions, would appreciate the author’s care in describing the various dimensions of the democratic deficit. | | | His reform proposals are designed to improve transparency in decision making and to achieve greater democratic accountability. | | | Chapter 3 considers privatization and deregulation, what Aman calls “the horizontal dimensions of globalization.” The main example Aman develops is the privatization of prisons but there are passing references to other examples of the new public-private partnerships in the delivery of social services, such as education and welfare. |
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http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/aman405.htm
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| | Rethinking Schools Online |
| | The price of continued decay in public education and social well-being will be paid in reduced prospects for a democratic future. | | | Instead, reform should be driven by standards of equity and social justice, including high expectations and educational excellence for all. | | | Social justice unionism retains the best of traditional unionism, borrows from what has been called "professional unionism," and is informed by a broader concept of our members' self-interests and by a deeper social vision. |
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http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/union/sjun.shtml
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| | ACCORD: The Social Economy |
| | Most social economy organisations are democratically governed and re-invest any surplus in the organisation (or a similar organisation, if they should wind-up). | | | A few (eg trading cooperatives) are democratic but can distribute a profit (where the distribution is proportionate to use). | | | ACCORD's focus is to assist and research organisations that operate in the "Social Economy" - a term that is widely used in Europe, and is interchangeable with the term "third sector". |
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http://www.accord.org.au/social
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| | INDIAN HISTORY: Caste, Social Stratification, mobility, Brahminism, Gupta, Islamic rule, invasions, pluralism, gender, sexuality, role of women, sati |
| | The caste system survived not just because it was enforced by the legal writ of an elite class, but as much because it served a social purpose in an era in which it was difficult if not impossible to organize the educational and productive activities of society in a more flexible and democratic way. | | | Any social system that is based on unequal access to economic assets - (whether they be land, raw materials, industrial or commercial wealth) will inevitably lead to some form of social discrimination and inequity. | | | The Sikhs had been at the forefront of powerful social reforms as they fought against the intolerable burden of high taxes imposed by the Mughals. |
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http://india_resource.tripod.com/social.htm
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| | CU Globalization and Democracy |
| | Examination of specific cases in a range of societies located at different places in the global economy will help GAD scholars explore the question of how democratic practices and accountability might be enriched and enhanced. | | | Global economic change, accountability and legitimacy; theories of the state; workplace and industrial democracy; political economy, with special attention to the role of economic enterprises and actors in politics; and American politics, with special attention to democratic theory and practice. | | | The global economy is undergoing rapid and fundamental change that is reshaping political and social relations in the United States and in other nations around the world. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/IBS/GAD/gad.html
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| | Ho Keun Song, Labour unions in the Republic of Korea: Challenge and choice |
| | It is true that the Social Compact as a national consensus helps to calm unrest and reduce social costs; it also strengthens the political platform on which the ruling party has based its reform policies. | | | Third, it is highly likely that their economic interests are associated with social and political reform since their jobs are mainly in the public services. | | | It should be pointed out that worker demands for economic well-being and better working conditions included social and political reforms in the three sectors represented by the unions of journalists, hospital staff, and financial and clerical workers. |
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http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55a/311.html
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| | MoodyII.html |
| | This is not to be confused with the "industrial policy" discussed over the past decade in various liberal and Social Democratic circles, which mainly aims at making individual countries more internationally competitive. | | | For Moody, this social unionism--one that looks beyond immediate workplace and wage issues to the community and to politics--was truncated, during the McCarthy era, into "business" unionism, one that concerns itself only with narrowly- defined material interests (i.e. | | | The result was the rank-and-file rebellion of the 1960's and early 1970's, occurring against the backdrop of a larger American social and economic crisis after 1965, expressed most notably in the Vietnam war, black insurgency, and the end of the postwar boom. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/moodyII.html
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| | It is also a significant loss to the Canadian economy because they will no longer buy Canadian goods and services and they will not contribute to support our important social programs. | | | Canadian taxes are so high compared to the U.S. that Canada is in real danger of losing more of our best and brightest to the United States as they seek higher wages and lower taxes. | | | Specifically, we would put in place tax credits for interest payments on student loans, a higher proportion of grants to loans, and a shift to income-contingent loan repayment schedules. |
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http://members.aol.com/totarisse/politiques1-en.html
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| | Social Security - |
| | A Florida Democratic congressman plans to unveil next week a proposal to bolster Social Security finances, in a break with his party's rejection of a White House push to revamp the retirement system. | | | Learn more about how Social Security will remain healthy and successful as far into the future as we can predict. | | | Even the most pessimistic of economists agree Social Security will remain solvent for decades. |
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http://www.thereisnocrisis.com
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