Check 9 - Democracy and Subsidiarity: Subsidiarity

Central government only undertakes tasks or makes decisions which localities cannot or which require uniform regulation.The gravitational pull of power to the centre is one of the things designers of the German constitution had in mind at the end of the Second World War. Germany had a certain fundamental and rather paradoxical advantage the UK lacks - they were defeated, along with Japan, and so their institutions were largely dissolved and reinvented in such a way as to avoid the accretion of power at the centre. This is a version of this week's topic - Subsidiarity - and we look at the German model in depth, and why it has been so successful.Talking points:Historic backdrop of SubsidiarityWe need to reinvent local democracyExecutive mayor in Tubingen and the pandemicHow that looks in other countriesTrust in government and optimal population (+/- 5 Million)Advantages of principle of subsidiarityHazards of disempowermentUniform regulation and local implementation in GermanyAshby's Law of Requisite Variety and subsidiarity...and child protectionRegional power, policy experimentation and learningLinks:Good 2 min overview of Subsidiarity (youtube):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0moAiq22kTroves of info on Wikipedia:Subsidiarity in general:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity...and the Catholic Church:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_(Catholicism)Pope Pius XI's Quadragesimo anno:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadragesimo_annoGreat conversation on Local Government in the UK (youtube, 10 min):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO8c1Iy1VWESuccesses in the fight against Covid - (Panorama/ BBC iplayer):https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000thry/panorama-covid-who-got-it-right(Story about Tubingen 42:00 minutes in)A new kind of democracy in Yorkshire (article):https://www.shaping-community.co.ukIn depth archive on German law:https://germanlawarchive.iuscomp.org/?p=380...and a top-line view on Wikipedia:https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Germany Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.