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Open Government: Fostering Dialogue with Civil Society.
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This publication presents the results of the International Roundtable on “Building Open Government in South East Europe: Information, Consultation and Public Participation” held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 23-24 May 2002. It was organized by the OECD in collaboration wit the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, the World Bank Institute (WBI) and the Open Society Institute (OSI). The publication provides an overview of the key issues involved in building open government today: ensuring transparency, accountability and openness; widening opportunities for citizens and civil society organizations.
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Howard, A. E. Dick: Toward the Open Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
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In this publication A. E. Dick Howard presents his views on the future of the open society in Central and Eastern Europe. He makes the claim that despite the many premises for the open society like consent of the governed, respect for human dignity, fairness in criminal procedure, limits on arbitrary government power, and a commitment to the rule of law, there is no premise more fundamental than the ideal of the open society. In this publication he makes a short review of the first steps of the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe towards building of civil societies. In his analysis the author pays special attention to the hazards on the road to the open society.
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Popper,Karl:"The Spell of Plato", The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 1.
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The first volume of the book represents a critical introduction to the philosophy of politics and of history. It examines some of the principles of social reconstruction and criticizes notions as historism. In the first volume of “The Open Society and its Enemies”, Popper also makes a review of the development of Greek philosophy and especially Plato. He also dwells on the issues of Aestheticism, Perfectionism, and Utopianism. Popper makes the claim that the Western civilization originates from the Greeks who were the first to make the step from tribalism to humanitarism.
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Popper,Karl: "The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx and the Aftermath", The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 2.
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In the second volume of his book Karl Popper continues his review of major works in political theory. He presents his view on the ideas of authors like: Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard. He claims the following: “It is a great step forward to learn to be self-critical; to learn to think that the other fellow may be right - more right than we ourselves. But there is a great danger involved in this: we may think that both, the other fellow and we ourselves, may be right. But this attitude, modest and self-critical as it may appear to us, is neither as modest nor as self-critical as we may be inclined to think; for it is more likely that both, we ourselves and the other fellow, are wrong”
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McInnes, Neil: Popper's Return Engagement: The Open Society in an Era of Globalization.
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The article is a critical essay on the notion of the civil society. The author, Neil McInnes, follows the evolution of the notion in the works of Henri Bergson and Karl Popper
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The Open Society Assesses Its Enemies: Shocks, Disasters and Terrorist Attacks.
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This paper conducts a systematic investigation of the determinants and costs of terrorism attacks at the aggregate level. The authors use newly assembled data-sets on terrorism attacks, natural disasters and bank and currency crises to answer three questions: what are the determinants of terrorism incidence, is there an output cost after a terrorist attack and do democracies suffer a larger or smaller cost? They find that rich countries are the most prone to suffer attacks while democracies are neither more nor less vulnerable than other countries. Finally, they find strong evidence that the output cost of attacks is smaller in democracies.
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