2021-10-04

Sustainable Governance, State and Role of Individuals: Dilemma of contradiction Between Economics and Politics

 



By Salam Al Rabadi

 

It is clear that many of the developments related to the “Covid_19” pandemic have led to a change in the economic and political facts and data related to the debates on the status of the state, sustainable governance and the role of individuals..etc, which in its entirety revolve around the dialectic of the fundamental contradiction between the globalization of the economy on the one hand and the nationalism of politics on the other. It is the dialectic that can be expressed by the following problematic question:

 

To what extent can the state maintain its position and functions? What is the possibility of achieving sustainable governance?

 

In principle, it can be said that one of the most complexities and dilemmas that prevents access to sustainable governance, is still closely related to the problematic of contradiction in the development of both economics and politics. The economy is logically and to some extent always moving towards the global, while politics is still practiced primarily locally or nationally. Here, the division or contradiction appears in the relationship between authority, responsibility and accountability to some extent, so that we find that there is a global economic authority versus a national or local political responsibility in which the use of authority is concentrated. This contradiction hinders the possibility and effectiveness of achieving and consolidating the principles of sustainable governance at all levels.

 

Therefore, in order to reconcile between domestic politics and the global economy, the point of balance between them must be based on sustainable governance, which is based on the principle of interdependence between political and economic concepts on the one hand, and the principles of transparency, accountability and participation on the other, here the individual (as a citizen or as a consumer ) can be the judgment or equilibrium by which that lost balance can be achieved. Which we need at the level of the possibility of achieving sustainable governance.

 

As each of the political and economic forces are trying to win over individuals to their side, whether on the economic or political level( the individual is, on the one hand, a voter, and on the other, a consumer). In the economic field, despite all the problematic of inequality and distributive justice, the individual consumer still holds the initiative at the economic level, based on his being the basis, goal and reference of commercial forces in all their forms. In addition, the individual citizen is the basis of political authority according to the democratic process and the electoral vote, as it still has a significant impact on the level of determining political orientations.

 

Based on this, the individuals on whom the political and economic systems are based must assume responsibility, engage and participate in the process of creating that influence and pressure to confront the monopolies and control of capitalist, security, political, media and even academic elites, in order to be the mainstay in achieving accountability, participation and transparency policies on which governance is based.

Where governance policies should not be limited to structural reforms or protest in the streets and at the ballot box. Rather, the sustainability and process of governance must be supported by directly holding monopoly forces accountable through a culture of consumption, as spending or saving money may lead to desired ends. This logic or direction of direct action may be better and more effective than traditional forms of political and economic expression.

 

In light of global markets trying to evade the rules and restrictions of accounting, the role of the individual (the consumer) appears as a force to be reckoned with. It can no longer be ignored that individuals all over the world are now turning to political shopping more than towards electoral voting. Thus, participation in the economic boycott process and the trend towards political shopping (so to speak) is a positive indicator that indicates that the individual consumer's political activity has begun to move in the right direction. Where the increasing activity and influence of economic forces, and the corresponding unclear political will, results in a growing realization that political shopping is a more effective form of sustainable governance.

 

Where it seems that consumption or political shopping has begun to replace traditional citizenship, as it is the tool that enables the individual (as a citizen or consumer), to impose accountability and correct public policies in a more serious and practical manner. In light of financial greed, political indifference and the absence of responsibility among many technocratic elites and market forces, individuals can assume responsibility and participation in achieving sustainable governance by adopting political shopping policies as a strategy or a new form of effective accountability.

 

To sum up, in practice we must admit that while the social contract that binds peoples and governments is becoming increasingly fragile, it seems that the pressure and influence of individuals is making a real impact in the face of monopolistic forces and corruption. That effect, which governments or even some international institutions cannot bring, and which may be fundamentally unwilling to do so.





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