The role of politics in knowledge society (PDF)

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Sociology - Political Sociology, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 1,3, Bielefeld University (Fakultät für Soziologie), course: Governance Theory , language: English, abstract: The functions of politics today should experience modification. Only by encompassing the following three tasks, the political system could be able to overcome its current crisis and abolish systemic risks and internal doubts of effective governance.

1) Politics should reconfigurate its role in a way that it understands itself as a mediator between the various governance actors and functional systems, without being able, though, to be the "conductor". After a first attempt to understand the functional logics of environmental systems, political action could try to form a balance between the autonomy of and the interrelations between these systems. By mediating the illustrated disorder, along with the anarchy of symbols in knowledge society, politics might encounter a new and more effective sphere of intervention and thus once again develop a special function to fulfill.

2) In a global competition for talent, resources, and locations, competences that secure the survival therein should be politically promoted. These globally demanded competences are...

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