Civil Society And The Reform Of Finance

Author : Charles McDaniel, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317503473
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and the Reform of Finance written by Charles McDaniel, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to resolve the recent financial crisis have obscured a more deeply rooted financialization crisis that impacts not only the market economy but also the vital civic and moral traditions that support it. This book reveals the cultural influence of finance in reshaping the foundations of American civil society and proposes a return to certain "first principles" of the Republic to restore the nation’s economic vision. This book demonstrates how funding concerns and financial incentives "revalue" faith traditions, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and even the nation’s healthcare system in ways that are eroding the diversity of American culture. These changes also undermine the ethical framework of both democratic government and the free-market system. While financial influence has diminished the value of civil society, this book proposes that revitalized intermediary institutions still offer the best path forward in restoring the financial sector and, more broadly, enriching the American competitive ethic toward development of a more virtuous economy. The book is written for an academic and professional audience, offering a blueprint for the involvement of civil society with government in providing more communally integrated oversight that could contribute to a genuine democratization of finance.

Author : MCDANIEL, JR.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367598853
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and the Reform of Finance written by MCDANIEL, JR. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to resolve the recent financial crisis have obscured a more deeply rooted financialization crisis that impacts not only the market economy but also the vital civic and moral traditions that support it. This book reveals the cultural influence of finance in reshaping the foundations of American civil society and proposes a return to certain first principles of the Republic to restore the nation's economic vision. This book demonstrates how funding concerns and financial incentives revalue faith traditions, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and even the nation's healthcare system in ways that are eroding the diversity of American culture. These changes also undermine the ethical framework of both democratic government and the free-market system. While financial influence has diminished the value of civil society, this book proposes that revitalized intermediary institutions still offer the best path forward in restoring the financial sector and, more broadly, enriching the American competitive ethic toward development of a more virtuous economy. The book is written for an academic and professional audience, offering a blueprint for the involvement of civil society with government in providing more communally integrated oversight that could contribute to a genuine democratization of finance.

Author : Lisa Kastner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351798138
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Financial Regulation written by Lisa Kastner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalitions of consumer groups, NGOs, and trade unions have traditionally been considered politically weak compared to well-organized and resourceful financial sector groups which dominate or "capture" financial regulatory decisions. However, following the 2008 financial crisis, civil society groups have been seen to exert much more influence, with politicians successfully implementing financial reform in spite of industry opposition. Drawing on literature from social movement research and regulatory politics, this book shows how diffuse interests were represented in financial regulatory overhauls in both the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). Four cases of reform in the post-crisis regulatory context are analyzed: the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the US; the introduction of new consumer protection regulations through EU directives; the failure of attempts to introduce a financial transaction tax in the US; and the agreement of 11 EU member states to introduce such a tax. It shows how building coalitions with important elite allies outside and inside government helped traditionally weak interest groups transcend a lack of material resources to influence and shape regulatory policy. By engaging with a less well-known side of the debate, it explains how business power was curbed and diverse interests translated into financial regulatory policy.

Author : Gordon White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Civil Society written by Gordon White and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. The search for civil society

Author : Albrecht Schnabel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134467079
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Global Finance written by Albrecht Schnabel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This key text brings together twenty activists, officials and researchers from the five continents to discuss this burning question of today's globalization debate. Providing rare, authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, Civil Society and Global Finance is rich in insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.

Author : Elizabeth Friesen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230368301
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging Global Finance written by Elizabeth Friesen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friesen demonstrates how transnational CSOs and NGOs can influence the context in which international political decisions are made. She shows how, by reframing the issues, the transnational campaign for the cancellation of third world debt altered the dominant discourse, shifted the agenda and thereby shaped political outcomes.

Author : Lorenzo Fioramonti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135157177X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens vs. Markets written by Lorenzo Fioramonti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an apparent temporary relief, the financial crisis is back full steam. The ?double dip? has turned into a full-blown meltdown of financial markets, public budgets and, by and large, democratic accountability. This global crisis is a fundamental wake-up call: a signal that our conventional political economy and, perhaps, the very foundations of our societies need a serious rethink. Currently, the spotlight is on the role of political elites and economic agents (especially the investors included in the vague notion of ?markets?) and their strategies to stabilize or destabilize countries, from North America to the Eurozone. Regrettably, the actual and potential role of civil society is hardly mentioned in public debate. Yet, it is exactly within civil society that important responses to the crisis may emerge. It is within civil society that an alternative paradigm and a fundamental rethinking of conventional wisdom may be fostered. Citizens vs. Markets is the first book to unpack the transformative role of civil society in a sector in which it has traditionally been less proactive, in order to reflect on possible forms of social transformation that are not merely remedial but also constructive in nature. This is the most important struggle of our times.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

Author : Albrecht Schnabel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0203219716
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Global Finance written by Albrecht Schnabel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This key text brings together twenty activists, officials and researchers from the five continents to discuss this burning question of today's globalization debate. Providing rare, authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, Civil Society and Global Finance is rich in insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.

Author : Yukihiko Hamada
Publisher : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
ISBN 13 : 9176713563
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Finance Reforms written by Yukihiko Hamada and published by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA). This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money is a necessary component of any democracy: it enables political participation, campaigning and representation. However, if it is not effectively regulated, it can undermine the integrity of political processes and institutions, and jeopardize the quality of democracy. Therefore, regulations related to the funding of political parties and election campaigns, commonly known as political finance, are a critical way to promote integrity, transparency and accountability in any democracy. Political finance regulations must adapt and adjust to political, economic and societal changes. This report contributes to the discussion of the future of political finance by exploring the following trends, opportunities and challenges related to money in politics that need to be taken into consideration when improving political finance systems: · mainstreaming political finance regulations into an overall anti-corruption framework; · supporting the implementation of existing political finance regulations and monitoring their performance; · harnessing digital technologies to ensure transparency and accountability in political finance; and · designing targeted political finance measures to encourage the inclusion of underrepresented groups in politics.

Author : Toby Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131735852X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Markets and Development written by Toby Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the political relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy’s latest form. The dramatic increase of ‘access to finance’ investments, newly gender-sensitive approaches to building neoliberal labour markets, the universal promotion of public-private partnerships, and the ‘development financing’ of extractive industries, have all seen citizens, social movements, and NGOs variously engaged in, and against, neoliberalism like never before. The precise form that this engagement takes is conditioned by both the perceived and real opportunities, and the risks, of an agenda which seeks to intern ‘emerging’ and ‘frontier markets’ deep within a concretising world market, with transformative repercussions for both those involved and, notably, for state-society relations. The contributors to this volume focus on essential aspects of the contemporary neoliberal development agenda and its relationship to and with citizens and civil society, tackling questions related to the roles that various actors within civil society in the underdeveloped world are playing under late capitalism, and how these roles relate to current efforts to establish and extend markets, and market society more broadly, in a neoliberal image. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.