Statism, Subsidiarity, and Sphere Sovereignty
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Statism,
Subsidiarity, and Sphere Sovereignty
Module 8: Week 8 Introduction
Overview
This module concludes
with a discussion of ways in which current public policy areas have been
impacted by various political ideologies and idolatries. You will consider the
Catholic notion of subsidiarity and the Reformed perspective on sphere
sovereignty, as ways to balance ideology and long-standing political interest
in crony capitalism.
Learning
Outcomes
Upon successful
completion of this module, you will be able to:
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Evaluate the impacts of statist intervention and efforts
to pursue “cosmic justice” on various public policy outcomes.
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Compare and contrast the merits of the Roman Catholic
notion of subsidiary and the Reformed perspective on covenant and sphere
sovereignty as ways to reduce elitism and crony capitalism.
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Evaluate the above in light of Biblical principles of
government and statesmanship.
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Koyzis:
Chapters 8 - 9
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Sowell:
Part IV
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Evaluate the impacts of statist intervention and efforts
to pursue “cosmic justice” on various public policy outcomes.
·
Compare and contrast the merits of the Roman Catholic
notion of subsidiarity and the Reformed perspective on covenant and sphere
sovereignty as ways to reduce elitism and crony capitalism.
·
Evaluate the above in light of Biblical principles of
government and statesmanship.
·
Connect concepts of “Statism, Subsidiarity, and Spere
Sovereignty” to your identified academic and/or professional interest in public
policy.
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Statism, Subsidiarity, and Sphere Sovereignty
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Statism, Subsidiarity,
and Sphere Sovereignty
Statist
interventions would basically mean that the government is controlling a very
large proportion of the economy and uses a blend of mixed economy. The
government by requirements in this economic model has the role of intervening
in markets to control private entities’ overreach. On the part of cosmic
justice reflects a much broader phenomenon that cuts across the nonpartisan
divide or simply weaponized anger or bitterness for political or personal gain.
The capitalists who own the factors of production and the means of production are
influenced by the government from public policy[1]. This means that
government will have control of what is produced and by quantities and
presumably the price. Government control agencies are subject to manipulation
to pass regulations to suit certain groups of people for political or personal
gain. Political-wise, these government agencies have the tendency to reward and
punish private entities that do not support or ascribe to the ruling government
ideologies. Also, the government agencies would punish competitors of own owned
enterprises, businesses similar to those of the political elites. Statism and cosmic justice in their entirety
have liable for rising corruption cases, underproduction, and mass
privatization of government enterprises, which in most cases will tend to
benefit the subscribers of government ideologies.
Businesses thrive as a result of rewards from the government because, in most cases, the business ownerships are supporting the times’ government. It is interesting in that the only way that crony capitalism and elitism exist and are much prevalent is because of statism. When the government’s involvement in the control of businesses is increased, it reciprocates to more businesses benefiting from state protection. This is the reason why the roman catholic advocate for the states to control the entities that cannot be controlled or influenced by the local governments and private companies. When we reduce the intervention of the state government, it means that the economy will be working at a free-market economy more than when there is government intervention. Adopting roman catholic ideology on subsidiarity can fight elitism and crony capitalism. However, it has one disadvantage that producers will tend to create...
