Pub Date : 2019-04-04DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190862084.013.14
W. Scheuerman
This chapter explores the temporal presuppositions of both early modern and contemporary models of the separation of powers, one of the intellectual and institutional pillars of modern liberal democracy. The separation of powers’ original conceptual renditions and their justifications are explored, with special attention paid to the idea of a tripartite functional separation of government bodies, checks and balances, and the dispersal of state authority as a necessary presupposition of personal and legal freedom. After exploring the separation of powers’ multifaceted temporal premises, the chapter considers how processes of social acceleration tend to impact them in potentially troublesome ways. Social acceleration throws a wrench into the separation of powers’ finely tuned “clockwork.”
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Pub Date : 2019-04-04DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190862084.013.15
Piki Ish-Shalom
This chapter explores the nexus of moral reasoning, politics, and time, especially in the realm of international politics. It argues that a crucial venue through which adversarial politics infiltrates moral reasoning is the latter’s need of temporalization. Temporalization is facilitated by temporal contexts and narratives so that the temporal boundaries of the situations-to-be-judged become essentially contested. The essential contestedness of temporal boundaries can subjugate normative language and moral reasoning to the dictates of adversarial politics and relativism. Temporalization can change morality into an instrument of power politics. To overcome these problems and salvage morality from subjugation and relativism, the chapter suggests that we should focus on international institutions, which can salvage moral reasoning by changing the structure of incentives facing adversaries, encouraging them not to aim predominantly at their own, domestic audience, but equally at international and universal audiences.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190862084.013.9
Kai Wegrich
This chapter discusses how a classic perspective of public policy and public administration, incrementalism, contributes to questions of the politics of time. It argues that the contribution of incrementalism is not limited to emphasizing the advantages of small-scale and stepwise policy or institutional changes compared to comprehensive reform strategies. Beyond this, the chapter shows how contributions from diverse fields, ranging from comparative politics and behavioral insights to urban planning, develop the concept of incrementalism, and how these approaches can enrich debates on policy and institutional change. In particular, the common image of incrementalism as subservient to existing power structures is challenged. Linking the varieties of incrementalism to questions of politics of time helps to develop these insights.
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