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Libertad de expresión y discurso político

propaganda negativa y neutralidad de los medios en campañas electorales

Desde sus orígenes, la democracia busca ser sinónimo de la isegoría o igual voz de los asuntos públicos. Actualmente la preponderancia de los medios de comunicación ha llevado a Sartori a hablar de videocracia como una intersección entre democracia y televisión. Este libro aborda dos ...

European Union foreign policy in a changing world

The European Union finds itself at a critical juncture; not only has the deepening crisis in the eurozone weakened the EU's internal structure, it has impacted significantly on its international image and external relations. The third edition of European Union Foreign Policy in a ...

Evaluación de impacto ambiental y evaluación estratégica

Contrariamente al impulso comunitario que ha venido empujando al legislador estatal en materia de evaluación ambiental, la aprobación de la Ley 21/2013, de 9 de diciembre, de evaluación ambiental, no trata de responder a ninguna suerte de deber de transponer al ordenamiento jurídico español ...

Los recursos contencioso-administrativos

doctrina, jurisprudencia y formularios

La presente obra se dedica al estudio del sistema de recursos en el orden contencioso-administrativo con una metodología que parte de una concepción unitaria del proceso y sus diversas manifestaciones, con la observancia de las peculiaridades propias de este orden jurisd iccional. Concretamente, se aborda ...

The EU, the US and global climate governance

This volume presents a critical analysis of transatlantic relations in the field of environmental governance and climate change. The work focuses on understanding the possible trends in the evolution of global environmental governance and the prospects for breaking the current impasse on climate action.Drawing ...

Representaciones de género en el cine español (1939-1982)

figuras y fisuras

La presente investigación es un análisis de los modelos identitarios femeninos y masculinos durante el periodo franquista y la Transición a través del cine. El estudio parte de una lectura interpretativa de la filmografía que alcanzó mayor popularidad en la sociedad española entre la Guerra ...

Why gender matters in economics

Gender matters in economics--for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics, this textbook provides a rigorous economic ...

Atlas of cities

More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities ...

Law and Disorder

fbsurdly Funny moments from the Courts

Charles M. Sevilla finds comic gems in court transcripts. This new collection starts with a chapter on defendants (one of whom, when asked his marital status, replies after a long pause, "Adequate") and follows with sections on lawyers, experts, witnesses, evidence and even one called ...

The use of foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges

n 2007 the International Association of Constitutional Law established an Interest Group on 'The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges' to conduct a survey of the use of foreign precedents by Supreme and Constitutional Courts in deciding constitutional cases. Its purpose was to determine ...

Cataluña en España. España en Cataluña

trece visiones académicas sobre una verdad única

Es mucho lo que en los últimos tiempos se habla acerca de la historia de España y de la Corona de Aragón, en general, y de Cataluña, en particular. En su mayor parte, se trata como no podía ser de otra manera de aseveraciones construidas ...

El español jurídico

El español jurídico va dirigido a especialistas de la traducción y la interpretación, ya sean estudiantes o profesionales. No es ni pretende ser un libro de Derecho español, sino un estudio del lenguaje jurídico español, en especial de los términos jurídicos y los conceptos que ...

La familia y la Seguridad Social

En la presente obra se analizan las relaciones entre la familia y la Seguridad Social. Se parte de la premisa fundamental de que la familia, con base en el principio de solidaridad, desarrolla como una de sus funciones esenciales la previsión y satisfacción de las ...

Legalidad y legitimidad en el estado contemporáneo

La actual crisis de la ley ha vuelto a poner encima de la mesa la clásica cuestión de la legitimidad, cuando de creía haberla resuelto en la modernidad, bajo la égida del procedimentalismo deliberativo democrático. En efecto, día a día puede comprobarse, que el plano ...

East Indies

the 200 year struggle between Portugual, the Dutch East India Co and the English East India Co for Supremacy in the Eastern Seas

In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and the Portuguese became the first Europeans to sail the Eastern Seas in search of spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains, and other oriental goods. Over the next 100 years, the Portuguese spread their trading ...

European Union and new regionalism

competing regionalism and global governance in a post-egemonic era

Stemming from an international and multidisciplinary network of leading specialists, this best-selling text is fully updated with new chapter additions. With the first edition prepared at the end of the last century and the second edition adding inter-regional relations, this new edition focuses on competing ...

How think tanks shape social development policies

Across the globe, there are more than four thousand policy institutes, or think tanks, that research or advocate for economic and social development. Yet the relationship between these organizations and the policies they influence is not well understood. How Think Tanks Shape Social Development Policies ...

Asset rotation

the demise of modern portfolio theory and the birth of an investment renaissance

An all-weather, tactical approach to asset management utilizing Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) In Asset Rotation, portfolio management pioneer Matthew P. Erickson demonstrates a time-tested approach to asset management that has worked throughout the history of capital markets, in good times and bad. Providing investors with ...

Public sector accounting

As change sweeps across the public sector, a huge range of accounting and financial management challenges are created. This textbook analyses the reforms that are being introduced to deal with these challenges and their global impact on the public sector. Readers are provided with an ...

Paper money collapse

the folly of elastic money

Explore the inevitable collapse of the fiat monetary system Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money, Second Edition challenges the mainstream consensus on money and monetary policy. While it is today generally believed that the transition from 'hard' and inflexible commodity money (such as ...