ADMS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Forces, Constitutionalism, Commodification

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Antonio Torres- Ruiz

Document Summary

A shift in public policy to create a favourable investment climate. Loss of nation-state economic independence, political initiative, and sovereignty. The nation-state and what it is expected to be: A single paradigm in place: liberal internationalism = market democracy. Predominant support for civil and political rights. The south has embraced the same discourse: Development of a moral and intellectual leadership for the liberal paradigm. A form of new (meta or supra) constitutionalism. Transnational forces and a transnational ruling class. A multilayered process of social co-ordination with a public purpose which includes state and non-state actors, actors both public and private, national and multilateral. Key institutions: international monetary fund, world bank, world trade organization. Current belief in the inevitability of privatization and trans-nationalization of capital. Negative rights clearly privileged by the most influential global institutions. Other un institutions stress the indivisibility of rights. Private actors also engaged in the promotion of human rights.