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The Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines is an extensive economic reform omnibus bill proposed by Argentine President Javier Milei on 27 December 2023. It was passed in the Argentine Senate and returned to the chamber of deputies on 12 June 2024, in a 36-36 tie broken by vice president Victoria Villarruel . [ 1 ]
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics is a political science book from 1960 by Seymour Martin Lipset. [1] The book is an influential analysis of the bases of democracy across the world. One of the important sections is Chapter 2: "Economic Development and Democracy."
Positive freedom, Fromm maintains, comes through the actualization of individuality in balance with the separation from the whole: a "solidarity with all men", united not by instinctual or predetermined ties, but on the basis of a freedom founded on reason.
Social liberalism [a] is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political rights, as opposed to classical liberalism which favors limited government and an overall more laissez-faire style of governance. While both are committed to personal ...
Philip Pettit (b. 1945) has argued, in Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (1997), that the theory of social contract, classically based on the consent of the governed, should be modified. Instead of arguing for explicit consent, which can always be manufactured, Pettit argues that the absence of an effective rebellion against it ...
Ordered liberty is a concept in political philosophy, where individual freedom is balanced with the necessity for maintaining social order. The phrase "ordered liberty" originates from an opinion by Justice Benjamin Cardozo in Palko v.
Social democrats are anticapitalists insofar as criticism about "poverty, low wages, unemployment, economic and social inequality, and a lack of economic security" is linked to the private ownership of the means of production. [31] Social democracy or social democratic remains controversial among socialists.
Berlin initially defined negative liberty as "freedom from", that is, the absence of constraints on the agent imposed by other people. He defined positive liberty both as "freedom to", that is, the ability (not just the opportunity) to pursue and achieve willed goals; and also as autonomy or self-rule, as opposed to dependence on others. [5]