Social organization of the state: The problem of balance

A. Rubinshtein
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A. Rubinshtein: The Institute of Economics RAS, Moscow, Russia

Journal of the New Economic Association, 2024, vol. 65, issue 4, 196-217

Abstract: The main emphasis of the paper is made on the use of a new paradigm of "state" and its representation in the form of a meta-system "political power-economy-civil society". Such understanding of the state's essence, according to the author, fits into Hayek's concept of "social order", which coordinates the actions of many participants pursuing different goals. Accordance to the author's definition of the state, we have such an order that "balances" the influence of the elements of metasystem "political power - economy - civil society". It is clear that at different stages of the evolution of the state, the elements of this metasystem, experiencing the failures of the market, of the state and of civil society, can acquire greater or lesser influence on all components of the life of society. It is not difficult to assume that the degree of balance of this metasystem, or, according to Hayek, the measure of "balancing the forces at work", is likely to be different. Finding an appropriate measure to assess the degree of its balance is one of the objectives of this paper. The article presents an econometric model for determining the appropriate meter, which makes possible to assess the degree of its balance. The results of its testing are carried out. To this end, we used data from an expert survey involving more than 700 respondents - members of the New Economic Association (NEA) and participants of the Fifth Russian Economic Congress (REC-2023), who answered questions from a specially developed questionnaire on the topic "Paternalistic state, civil society, humanitarian sector of the economy". The results of the responses' analysis allowed us to assume that the experts confirmed almost all the main conclusions of the article.

Keywords: public order; state; power; civil society; social organization; sociological survey; econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 B53 C43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.31737/22212264_2024_4_196-217

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