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State Paternalism and Autonomy

2020
This chapter examines how state paternalism affects autonomy. Paternalism is described as active and passive, both of which affect personal liberty but can be regarded as beneficial. The ethico-legal issues associated with paternalism are considered in detail and how the state might claim the right to use face recognition technology without consent is ...
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State Autonomy in Taiwan

1997
In the previous chapter, we showed how Taiwan stepped up capitalist development under the direction of the Japanese colonial government and the KMT. A common conclusion of many studies is that the state has played a significant role in promoting economic growth in Taiwan (e.g., Amsden, 1985; Gold, 1986; Haggard, 1990; Wade, 1990). A laissez-faire state
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The Ottoman state and the question of state autonomy: Comparative perspectives

Journal of Peasant Studies, 1991
Donated by Klaus Kreiser ; Reprinted from : New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, 1992.
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Autonomy Impaired: Centralisation, Authoritarianism and the Failing Iraqi State

Ethnopolitics, 2015
Regional autonomy is guaranteed in the constitution of Iraq, yet between 2006 and 2014 the Shiite prime minister at the time, Nouri al-Maliki, did his utmost to limit the power of both Kurds and Sunnis. Maliki worked to further centralise governance and amassed greater controls and power—from militarily to legislative—for his party.
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The Autonomy of Fact‐Stating

2001
Abstract Explores a central Wittgensteinian view: that whether words that aim to be fact stating cannot be hostage to anything other than the internal consistency of their ambitions. There is no external perspective from which one might coherently maintain a metaphysical scepticism about them.
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The State and Ethnic Autonomy in Nigeria

Regional & Federal Studies, 2003
This article examines the utility of the principle of autonomy in the management of deeply divided polities, from the perspective of the Nigerian case. It traces the origins of the principle to the attempts by the colonial authorities and subsequent regimes to accommodate the country's ethnic diversity, but argues that this essentially state-centred ...
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Authority, Autonomy and the Legitimate State

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1992
ABSTRACT R. P. Wolff has argued that there is an irreconcilable conflict between the distinguishing mark of every state, viz. supreme authority over all its citizens, and the primary obligation of rational beings, viz. to act autonomously by taking moral responsibility for all of their actions.
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State Autonomy — A Conceptual Framework

2005
The principle of economic determination entails that economic phenomena explain (or determine) non-economic phenomena. The reach of economic determination within Marxist theory may be clarified by distinguishing between the claims of Marxist sociology and the theory of history.1 The sociology does not claim that all non-economic phenomena are explained
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Native Autonomy in a Multinational State

2020
This chapter examines the conceptions of autonomy, indigeneity, and other dimensions of native belonging in the multinational Russian state. It explains why many Buryats have not taken up discourses of indigenous rights, even though doing so would likely benefit them in concrete financial and political ways.
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Sub-state nationalism / autonomy :

2013
This work was conducted with the aim of advancing our understanding of the modern and political nature of nationalism as a social phenomenon. To this end it has proposed an understanding of nationalism as contextually linked to the governmentalisation of the state.
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