Democracy
& Nature, Vol. 3, No. 3
Institutional
Restructuring and the Liberatory Transition: Taxation and Welfare as a Case
Study
James
Robertson
Abstract
A liberatory
post-modern transition to a people-centred, ecologically sustainable path of
progress will involve changes in personal lifestyles, societal institutions,
technologies, scientific and economic assumptions, and ethical and spiritual
values. These are all linked, change in one will tend to open the way to change
in others, and resistance to change in one will tend to impede change in others.
Taking, as an example of institutional change, the growing awareness in
governmental and political circles that existing systems of taxation and
welfare must be restructured, and concluding that mainstream recognition of the
need for change can be converted into opportunities to advance the liberatory
project, this article examines some of the problems to be overcome.
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