Ciudadanía, derechos políticos y justicia electoral en México

Memoria del IV Seminario Internacional del Observatorio Judicial Electoral

Ciudadanía, derechos políticos y justicia electoral en México es una obra colectiva que presenta el resultado del "IV Seminario Internacional del Observatorio Judicial Electoral", celebrado el 6 y 7 de octubre de 2011 en la ciudad de México bajo el auspicio del Tribunal Electoral del ...

The palestinian-israeli conflict

a very short introduction

The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles in history. In this accessible and stimulating Very Short Introduction, Martin Bunton clearly explains the history of the problem, reducing it to its very essence - a modern territorial contest ...

Luis Gómez Llorente

Educación pública y socialismo

"Lo cierto es que el saber ha sido un instrumento de dominación a través de los siglos. Las clases dominantes, los grupos privilegiados en cada sociedad han retenido como patrimonio privado las formas de sabiduría más sofisticadas según el nivel de cada tiempo. El muro ...

La política como arte estratégico

Repensar la política como arte estratégico, superar la mera repetición de los textos de los clásicos del marxismo y del pensamiento crítico, dialogar con ellos y sus contemporáneos en medio del nuevo período histórico que nos ha tocado vivir. Ésas son algunas de las principales ...

Deliberative systems

'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum ...

Mao cult

rhetoric and ritual in China's cultural revolution

Mao Zedong's political and cultural legacy remains potent even in today's China. There have been many books that have explored his posthumous legacy, but none that has scrutinized the cult of Mao and the massive worship that was fostered around him at the ...

Regeneracionismo autoritario

desafíos y bloqueos de una sociedad en transformación: España, 1923-1930

Los procesos largos de modernización de las sociedades constituyen un tema historiográfico clásico desde hace mucho tiempo. resulta igualmente habitual que tal evolución aparezca vinculada al desarrollo de políticas sociales públicas, sin duda el recurso más concluyente para acreditar el proceso de integración de las ...

Escucha, Sefarad

los motivos que llevaron a la independencia de Cataluña

"Escucha, España" fue el mensaje que hace más de un siglo lanzó Joan Maragall a una España incapaz de asimilar la pérdida de sus últimas colonias de ultramar. Sin embargo, España no escuchó. Se mantuvo inflexible. Las demandas de autogobierno de las colonias antillanas no ...

La violencia como noticia

La noticia es la esencia del periodismo y el conflicto suele ser criterio de lo noticioso. Información y conflicto están vinculados, aunque los medios de comunicación no acaban de encontrar los términos exactos que sirvan para definir e interpretar los conflictos. Este libro plantea el ...

The European Union as crisis manager

patterns and prospects

The European Union is increasingly being asked to manage crises inside and outside the Union. From terrorist attacks to financial crises, and natural disasters to international conflicts, many crises today generate pressures to collaborate across geographical and functional boundaries. What capacities does the EU have ...

History of the Council of Europe

The Council of Europe, the oldest European organisation, was founded in 1949 with the aim of unifying the continent as a whole. The decision to establish its headquarters in Strasbourg was, moreover, symbolic of the desire for reconciliation between peoples. From the outset the Council ...

The European Union as crisis manager

patterns and prospects

The European Union is increasingly being asked to manage crises inside and outside the Union. From terrorist attacks to financial crises, and natural disasters to international conflicts, many crises today generate pressures to collaborate across geographical and functional boundaries. What capacities does the EU have ...

The utility of force

the art of war in the modern world

From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century. Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a ...

Peacebuilding in community colleges

a teaching resource

Offering lifelong and developmental learning to over 13 million students at nearly 1,200 schools, community colleges in the United States attract a student body with remarkable economic, ethnic, and cultural diversity. They provide students with skills and foundational knowledge upon which successful professional careers ...

Conflict analysis

understanding causes, unlocking solutions

The change in the patterns and nature of deadly conflicts since the end of the Cold War has spurred many organizations in and outside governments to develop robust strategies to anticipate, prevent, and respond to these conflicts. Conflict analysis is the critical first step toward ...

La Sagrada Familia, o Crítica de la crítica crítica contra Bruno Bauer y consortes

En 1844 Bruno Bauer atacó a sus antiguos amigos Marx y Engels desde el Die Allgemeine Literaturzeitung, la gaceta literaria que el propio Bauer editaba junto a sus hermanos en Charlottenburg. Reacio a todos los movimientos de la «masa» de la época, Bauer incidió particularmente ...

L'autorevole codice civile

giustizia ed equità nel Diritto privato

SOMMARIO: L’« arte » della legislazione all’alba delle codificazioni nazionali. Creatività politica ed estetica legislativa. « Ius Est Ars Boni Et Aequi ».

In pursuit

of happiness and good government

Respected author, scholar, and columnist Charles Murray has long challenged accepted notions of public and social policy issues. In this volume, originally published in 1988, Murray presents a persuasive and practical argument that reconsiders commonly held beliefs of what constitutes success in social policy by ...

The rise and fall of economic justice and other essays

In his final book, one of the giants of twentieth-century political philosophy returns to his key themes of state, class, and property as well as such contemporary questions as economic justice, human rights, and the nature of industrial democracy. Macpherson not only re-examines historical issues ...

Privacy and media freedom

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right at the heart of any democratic society. It is, however, inevitably restricted by other important values, including the right to privacy: the control individuals exercise over their sensitive personal information. The English law, since the enactment of the ...