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"Dieser Beitrag untersucht Legitimationsfragen ordnungspolitischer Empfehlungen in der Demokratie. Während die klassische Ordnungspolitik in der Tradition Walter Euckens die Legitimation ordnungspolitischer Regeln mit dem gesellschaftlichen Wohlfahrtsgewinn begründet, muss in der Demokratie die allgemeine Zustimmungsfähigkeit von Regeln als Legitimationsquelle vorausgesetzt werden. Es wird gezeigt, wie die Überzeugungen der Bürger über die Funktionsweise einer Marktwirtschaft ebenso wie die politischen Präferenzen zu einer Modifikation klassischer Ordnungspolitik führen. Eine anti-marktwirtschaftliche Politik ist in einer Demokratie gleichwohl nicht zu erwarten." (Autorenreferat)

Around the world, multiethnic states are in trouble. Many have proven unable to create or sustain any sense of solidarity across ethnic lines. The members of one ethnic group are unwilling to respect the rights of the members of other groups, or to make sacrifices for them, and have no trust that any sacrifice they might make will be reciprocated.Recent events show that where this sort of solidarity and trust is lacking, the consequences can be disastrous. In some countries, the result is violent civil war, as in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, and various parts of the former Soviet Union. In other countries, the state has dissolved in a more peaceful way, as in Czechoslovakia, albeit with significant economic and psychological costs. In yet other countries, particularly in Africa, the state has stayed together, but is little more than a shell, a loose confederation of more or less hostile groups who barely tolerate, let alone cooperate with, each other.

During the Early 1990s the Term Social Market economy has been used rather loosely; this is not surprising since the theory is derived from a specifically German tradition of political economy with little or no resonance outside the Germanspeaking area. The leading thinkers in the genre are hardly known in English-speaking circles and most of their works remain untranslated.The fundamental purpose of this article is to present this rich and diverse strand of thought to a non-German audience barely aware of its existence, to point out possibilities for developing the international aspects of such a theory, and to highlight policy issues concerning the post-cold war European and international orders which can be addressed from social market perspectives.

Ireland has witnessed a succession of community-based responses to regional episodes of ecological degradation in recent years. This paper will argue that the basis for these disputes is the Irish state's neo-liberal and neo-corporatist policy framework, which favours accelerated and reckless infrastructural development while excluding community concerns about health and environmental issues.

IN LOOKING AT LIBERALS, POPULISTS, & FOREIGN POLICY, THE AUTHOR ASSERTS AND DISCUSES FOUR PROPOSITIONS: 1) AMERICAN POLITICS NEEDS A NEW LIBERAL-POPULIST ASCENDANCY; 2) AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS A NEW LIBERAL-POPULIST BASE; 3)THE WORLD NEEDS A NEW LIBERAL-POPULIST AMERICA; 4)AMERICA S LIKELY TO HAVE A NEW LIBERAL-POPULIST GOVERNMENT.

In this study of the changes in the social and political thought of the Edwardian Liberal Party, Dr Emy charts the process of internal conversion by which the Party came to favour an advanced social policy. He links these changes with important developments in the internal composition of the Party, in particular the emergence of a new group of social radicals, and claims that these two factors were responsible for the Liberals' commitment to advanced measures of social reform. The author also maintains that the entry of the social radicals into Parliament marks the origins of a significant debate in modern British politics - the economic problem. He argues that the central issue of the problem - the degree to which social and moral priorities are both entitled to and are able to displace the primacy of deterministic economic assumptions about how society must work - was the critical issue of post-1906 politics, and also came to form the touchstone of modern party allegiances