Suchergebnisse

Struktur und Organisation des Bildungswesens in Bundesstaaten

Seine Ergebnisse sollen jenseits aller politischen Machtfragen der nüchternen, sachlichen Bewertung dienen, was Deutschland aus den Erfahrungen mit den Systemen dieser Länder lernen kann, wie weit insbesondere mehr Autonomie der Schulen und

Initiative "pro kopf"

Sustainable Development: A Concept with a Future?

"Sustainability" has become something like a universal standard of politics beyond criticism. But what's behind this? In his paper "Sustainable Development: A Concept with a Future?" British publicist Richard D. North points at the weak spots in this

Between Freedom and Censorship. Asian Political Parties in Cyberspace

During the last decade the internet became more and more important as an instrument of political campaigning and discussion. The political parties of Asia use this method too, but in very different ways. James Gomez describes in this paper the latest

Human Rights and the Wars on Drugs and Terrorism

The countries of Latin America face two threats: political and organized terrorism based on illicit drug trade. The fight against these threats gave the military forces the opportunity to defend their importance and their power during the ongoing

The Drug War Against Civil Liberty and Human Rights

In 1971 President Nixon launched the modern war on drugs. It is fought today by a huge expensive bureaucracy and militarized police units. The authors analyzes how this policy violates America's founding principles of individual liberty, limited

Liberty in the Modern World

Modern people have more freedom than any in history, but perhaps understand it rather less. The author wants to remind ourselves that liberty rights and freedoms flows from good government and order and not at least from responsible citizens.

What are Human Rights?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights consists of logically inconsistent bundle of rights and claim-rights. Hardy Bouillon demonstrates in this paper that this problem can only be solved if human rights are put in terms of property rights. Claim

Liberty: The Best Remedy Against Poverty

Opponents of the free market often argue, that freedom was good for the rich, but bad for the poor. Otto Graf Lambsdorff (former chairman of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung) argues that "on the contrary" the market economy was and is the only path to

The Social Dimension of Liberal Policy

"Liberal policy has per se an important social dimension", and "It is based on a model of society which is intrinsically social, and safeguards the freedom of the individual to fulfil his life plan in the civil society", says Professor Hubertus