...Gail Pacheco; Thomas Lange Purpose The purpose of this paper is to model the link between political participation and life satisfaction whilst correcting for the endogenous nature of the relationship; explore the impact of different strengths of political participation and aim to uncover...

...Barrie Pettman; John Marangos Purpose The purpose of the paper is to develop alternative paths to the transition process as a result of alternative models of transition. Design/methodology/approach A political economy methodology to the transition process results in alternative transition...

...Tibor R. Machan Purpose Aims to question whether political principles, for example, those of socialism or libertarianism, have lasting significance. Design/methodology/approach – Lays out a case for the stability of at least one variety of political principle, namely that of libertarianism...

... in their struggle for political and economic rights for the community. Based on a national survey data this article examines some of these concerns. It analyses the extent of concern about poverty, unemployment and lack of basic facilities such as water, housing and electricity among the community and draws...

... maximization suppression strategy was consistent with public choice tenets. As such, the public choice interpretation of British political history presented here adds further to political‐economic models of legislator/executive behavior. The British General Election of 1945 represented one of the greatest...

...Thea Vinnicombe; Richard Staveley Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are typically linked with the foundations of political economy, while at the same time, Locke’s teaching is regarded as differing substantively from that of Hobbes. Locke, in fact, differs from Hobbes on only one substantive issue...

... (in the sense of creating an “investor friendly” environment) is necessary for growth, and ultimately also good for the poor and unemployed – and hence will promote equity in the longer run. Whilst GEAR attempts to tackle the socio‐political environment that was inherited by the post‐apartheid government...

... and private appropriation of land; feudalism; a system of perfect liberty; late eighteenth century England; and the American colonies, and examine how wealth power, monopoly power, employer power, and political power is manifested within each. We conclude, as does Smith, that modes of social organization can...

... to cope with different levels of uncertainty encountered in foreign markets and to fully tap the new resources. Organizational effectiveness is directly influenced by the firm’s ability to achieve a “close‐fit” between the internal dynamics and the socio‐political structures. This, in turn, is possible...

... and political insecurity. How to do full justice to such exceptional contributions is not an easy job. I hope that the application of the new research program will make the task more amenable. We are dealing here with two social thinkers from two different historical milieus, who belong to two different...

... in developing economies everywhere in the world. Presents an analysis of political corruption and argues why some countries are afflicted by it more than others are. For this, several lines of argument are explored, empirical tests and observations are analyzed and finally a model for an economy in transition...

...L.A. Duhs Y.S.   Brenner . Looking into the Seeds of Time: The Price of Modern Development, second edition . New Brunswick, London : Transaction Publishers   1998 . , ISBN: 1‐56000‐996‐9 © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Economic growth Ethics Politics Philosophy...

...Irmi Seidl Though sustainable development is widely accepted, its realisation is hampered by numerous factors, many of which are located within the political system. The paper discusses some of these hindrances and the council on sustainable development which is designated to counterbalance...

... authoritative position in the national political arena, although increasing voter apathy and the growth of the Protestant Church movement could again threaten its position. The 1965 Vatican encyclical Pacem et Terris had broken with its predecessors by recognising the urgency of eliminating...

... constitutive element of the capitalist system is found in Hobbes’ writings. His mentality is bourgeois and he uses a model that can only correspond to a mercantile society of capitalist character, in which political rights are less important than security in the market. The economic liberalism of Adam Smith...

...Thomas W. Hall; John E. Elliott After a clarification of definitions important in methodological discussions, a brief history of early methodological thought in economics and political economy is presented. The development of “orthodox” methodology is traced, and the fundamental assumptions...

... Japan Politics A most interesting aspect from the viewpoint of social economics is that Japan, rather than being colonized at the time of the Western Powers’ advances in East Asia, continued as an independent nation, and subsequently was rapidly modernized, in preparation for the development...

... by nature? Is man a political animal? Is the justification for human existence to be found in the individual alone or in the social whole? Is society a synthesis of individuals, or does it contain something more than the simple totality of individuals? For millennia, economic thought considered...

...Alan Duhs Economics and political philosophy tend to lead separate existences in separate university departments. This paper argues that there are gains to be had in the understanding of the teaching of economics if the intellectual divide between these disciplines is bridged. The history...

...Philip McDermott R.J.   Johnston . Nature, State and Economy: A Political Economy of the Environment . John Wiley & Sons , 1996 . 2nd edition © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Environment Politics Society The bleakness of Johnston’s conclusions may have been...