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Debate on community service

  We have often heard that the welfare state supports the lazy, although there is no empirical evidence for such a thing, or there are no recorded refusals of appropriate work or work referrals from the Employment Service. So far, we have encountered the paradigm of community service as a possible milder form of serving a sentence for a criminal offense. In the EU, community service is a generally accepted alternative to prison. The same is true in the USA. In our country, however, there has been a tendency to condition social assistance with community service. Even today, prisoners, or perpetrators of criminal offenses for whom they have been finally sentenced to prison, are not obliged to work, although they could consider that they are housed and fed for free. Let's leave aside free access to computers, fitness centers, playgrounds, and the like.  Prisoners are completely free to decide to work, although work is mostly available in the prison laundry, kitchen and the like, ...
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Debata o družbeno koristnem delu

Že večkrat smo slišali, da socialna država podpirala lenuhe, čeprav za kaj takega ravno ni empiričnih dokazov, oziroma ni evidentiranih odklonitev ustreznih del   ali napotnic na delo iz Zavodov za zaposlovanje. Paradigmo družbenih koristnih del smo do sedaj srečevali kot možno milejšo obliko odsluženja izrečene kazni za kaznivo dejanje. V EU je namreč družbeno koristno delo splošno sprejeta alternativa zaporni kazni. Prav tako pa tudi v ZDA. Pri nas pa je pojavila težnja po pogojevanje socialne pomoči z družbeno koristnim delom. Še dandanes zaporniki, oziroma storilci kaznivih dejanj, ki so bili zanje tudi pravnomočno obsojeni na zaporne kazen niso dolžni delati, čeprav bi lahko smatrali, da so zastonj nastanjeni in na zastonj prehrani. Pustimo ob strani zastonj dostop do računalnikov, fitnesa, igrišč in podobno. Zaporniki so pri odločitvi za delo, čeprav so na voljo večinoma dela v zaporniški pralnici, kuhinji in podobno, povsem svobodni in naj bi bili za to delo tudi plačani. La...
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Election promises and reality

  Modern parliamentary democracy is based on the assumption that the people are the bearers of sovereignty. In theory, this mechanism works elegantly and thoughtfully: citizens delegate their political power to elected representatives in regular, free and direct elections. Parliament is thus supposed to act as a reflection of the entire social spectrum – as a microcosm in which the public will is co-formed through representatives of various interest groups, classes and ideologies.  Through the adoption of laws and supervision of the executive branch of power, parliament is supposed to directly influence the everyday life of an individual. Elections in this system are not just a formal act of casting a vote, but a key moment when citizens choose between different visions of the future – from tax policy and the healthcare system to education and infrastructure.  The dictatorship of the majority and the problem of legitimacy  However, the parliamentary system already ca...
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