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Electoral management design

Electoral management bodies (EMBs) need to become more professional if they are to retain the trust of voters. This handbook was developed for electoral administrators and those involved in reforming EMBs. It provides comparative experience of and best practices on EMB structures and funding models ...

When stereotype meets prejudice

antiziganism in european societies

Antiziganism is a widespread phenomenon in all European societies. Poor or rich, ‘postcommunist’ or ‘traditional’, North or South, with ‘lean’ or ‘thick’ welfare systems-all European societies demonstrate antiziganist prejudice. All across Europe Romanis are among the poorest, most destitute, and most excluded communities. Widespread prejudice ...

Rule of law and constitution building

the role of regional organizations

Regional organisations play an increasingly important role in strengthening and upholding the rule of law. Depending on their mandates and regional contexts, this role takes various forms. Regional organisations are also seeking to strengthen constitutional governance in their member states by developing regulatory frameworks that ...

Cortázar sin barba

La leyenda de Cortázar no deja de crecer en el corazón del público que bebió de su talento y de sus relatos; este libro les encantará. Y en aquellos lectores que no han leído a Cortázar, seguro que despertará pasiones encontradas. En muy raras ocasiones ...

El bandido adolescente

Publicada en 1965, "El bandido adolescente" recrea con el ímpetu narrativo que caracteriza gran parte de la obra de Ramón J. Sender la vida de William H. Bonney, el mítico pistolero del Oeste que pasó a la historia con el sobrenombre de Billy el Niño ...

Doña Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui

en el archivo de protocolos de Trujillo

Cuando doña Francisca Pizarro llegó a Trujillo, seguramente vinieron a su memoria los recuerdos de aquella lejana infancia que quedaron en Perú cuando hubo de encaminarse a la tierra de su padre. Su venida a España, impuesta por la Corona, y tras reiteradas súplicas en ...

Reminiscencias literarias posmodernas

de Unamuno a Francisco Nieva

Lo expresado literariamente a través de diversas y múltiples reminiscencias posmodernas de las letras españolas del siglo XX, ejemplifica un dislocamiento manifiesto de la modernidad, unido a una ruptura interna del presunto proyecto de progreso, abocado, sin embargo, a abrirse, en última instancia, a entornos ...

Borders, asylum and global non-citizenship

the other side of the fence

The experience of border crossing for refugees and irregular migrants challenges global border and migration controls in multiple contexts. Using qualitative field research in Tanzania, Spain, Morocco and Australia, Heather Johnson asks how a global regime of migration management and control can be perceived through ...

Ecos de la Inquisición

INDICE: Antecedentes. Nacimiento de la Inquisición. La creación de la moderna Inquisición por los Reyes católicos. La Inquisición con los Austrias. La Inquisición con los Borbones. Rasgos peculiares de la Inquisición española. Ecos inquisitoriales.

Crimes of globalization

new directions in critical criminology

This book addresses immensely consequential crimes in the world today that, to date, have been almost wholly neglected by students of crime and criminal justice: crimes of globalization. This term refers to the hugely harmful consequences of the policies and practices of international financial institutions ...

El virtuoso discreto

primera y segunda parte

El virtuoso discreto, una obra manuscrita, hasta ahora inédita, del maestro Bartolomé Jiménez Patón, era un texto a punto de publicación, a tenor de las preceptivas aprobaciones que muestra. Concluida probablemente en 1629, en plena madurez de su autor, representa un período de transición entre ...

The right to regulate in international investment Law

Since the inception of the international investment law system, investment promotion and protection have been the raison d'etre of investment treaties and states have confined their policy space in order to attract foreign investment and protect their investors abroad. Languishing in relative obscurity until ...

Common Law legal english and grammar

a contextual approach

Lord Denning, an influential but controversial English judge, stated that 'Words are the lawyer's tools of trade'. This course book reflects that conviction as it focuses on words, the language of the law - legal terms, expressions, and grammar - introduced systematically with relevant aspects of ...

El modelo Consum

una cooperativa responsable y sostenible

La de Consum es una historia de éxito colectivo, el de una cooperativa que nació en 1976 con un pequeño supermercado en Alaquàs (valencia). Treinta años después, Consum posee una amplia red de puntos de venta con fuerte presencia en diversas comunidades autónomas, y ha ...

Blackstone and his commentaries

biography, Law, history

One of the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal tradition, William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9) has recently begun to attract renewed interest from legal and other scholars. The Commentaries no longer dominate legal education as they once did, especially ...

The death and life of the music industry in the digital age

"The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age" challenges the conventional wisdom that the internet is 'killing' the music industry. While technological innovations (primarily in the form of peer-to-peer file-sharing) have evolved to threaten the economic health of major transnational music ...

Politics of happiness

connecting the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche and Derrida to the political ideologies of happiness

This unique and engaging study argues that the Western concern with achieving happiness should be understood in terms of its relationship to the political ideologies that have emerged since the Enlightenment. To do so, each chapter examines the place that happiness occupies in the construction ...

The bubble economy

is sustainable growth possible?

The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks "too big to fail," financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. Wall Street has discovered that it is more ...

Designing future-oriented airline businesses

Designing Future-Oriented Airline Businesses is the eighth Ashgate book by Nawal K. Taneja to address the ongoing challenges and opportunities facing all generations of airlines. Firstly, it challenges and encourages airline managements to take a deeper dive into new ways of doing business. Secondly, it ...

The EU accession to the ECHR

Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) provides that the EU will accede to the system of human rights protection of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Protocol No 9 in the Treaty of Lisbon opens the way for accession. This represents ...