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TEFI TCA – id. code 3919procedures and structures provided are useful, too. In general withthe classification of a good as a private, mixed or public one thesocial subsystem responsible for its provision is named, too.1.1.1. Liberal and Republican politicsThe liberal state is thought of as the warden of a competitive society.The democratic process of opinion formation is imagined ascompletely carried out by compromise. The rules of the compromiseformation are justified by liberal fundamental rights, securing theresults’ fairness in concrete via the representative composition of theparliamentary bodies and the democratic decision modes.The Separation between society and the state machinery from cannotbe eliminated, but bridged by the democratic process. Normativeprecautions, like e.g. fundamental rights, separation of powers andobedience to the law work in a disciplining way. They are enabling thecompetition between political parties on the one hand, governmentand opposition on the other hand thus leading to an adequateobservance of social interests and values. The core element of theliberal model is the legal standardized competitive society, being thetechnology to produce the common welfare understood as apolitical.The exercise of political power is legitimated by the justifyingdemocratic decision-making-process. Election results are the licensefor to wield political power. Emanating from the people theFinal report 17