¡Ey, las ideologías existen!

comunicación política y campañas electorales en América Latina

Éste es un libro para la academia. Éste es un libro para la política. Éste es un libro para el periodismo y para la ciudadanía interesada. Pero es, básicamente, un libro para quienes hacen consultoría política, porque la fragilidad de los argumentos sólo produce diagnósticos ...

Política y políticas en América Latina

Este libro presenta un renovado balance de algunos de los grandes acontecimientos políticos y sociales latinoamericanos de la primera década del siglo XXI y, a su vez, reúne elementos históricos y analíticos. La "resurrección" del Estado, la calidad institucional de la sdemocracias, los dilemas de ...

America's blind spot

Chávez, oil, and US Security

High oil prices are bound to undermine the U.S. economic recovery, unless global supplies increase significantly. Latin America holds the world's biggest oil reserves after the Middle East, but politics are hindering its potential, especially in Venezuela. Global U.S. security would benefit ...

Memorias

Santiago Carrillo, autor de estas Memorias, se considera superviviente de una generación combustible que «ha dejado en el camino, muertos en las trincheras, bajo los bombarderos o las represiones, a millones de sus componentes». Se trata del relato de una vida política larga y azarosa ...

Democratic transition in the Middle East

unmaking power

Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case ...

Security in 21st century Europe

Europe's traditional problem of war between states is being displaced by a new and equally daunting set of security challenges. While major war within Europe remains unlikely, the 2008 Georgia war and the 2011 Libya war were reminders that violent conflicts are still prevalent ...

Fisty key thinkers on globalization

Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of fifty of the most important theorists of globalization ...

Comunicación y terrorismo

En estas páginas el lector observará la tensión del político cuando tiene que responder a un atentado, la incertidumbre y el trauma de los periodistas que lo cubren y el escepticismo de los ciudadanos que asisten como espectadores. De aquí la estructura del libro que ...

Tao Te Ching

los libros del TAO

El descubrimiento de los textos más antiguos del primer clásico del taoísmo, el Tao Te Ching —el Lao zi de Guodian, los libros de Mawangdui y Sobre el Gran Uno—, anteriores a las versiones tardías hasta ahora utilizadas, ha planteado nuevos problemas y abierto nuevas ...

Foundations of modern international thought

Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David ...

After the spring

probation, justice reform, and democratization from The Baltics to Beirut

The protests that have sparked a generational revolution in Tunisia and Egypt have spread far and wide and renewed past efforts to replace authoritarian regimes with democratic institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This book argues that a central aspect of democratization ...

After the spring

probation, justice reform, and democratization from The Baltics to Beirut

The protests that have sparked a generational revolution in Tunisia and Egypt have spread far and wide and renewed past efforts to replace authoritarian regimes with democratic institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This book argues that a central aspect of democratization ...

Electoral systems and political context

how the effects of rules vary across new and established democracies

Electoral Systems and Political Context illustrates how political and social context conditions the effects of electoral rules. The book examines electoral behavior and outcomes in countries that use 'mixed-member' electoral systems - where voters cast one ballot for a party list under proportional representation (PR) and ...

Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice

engineering electoral dominance

Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advanced democracies ...

The power of american governors

With limited authority over state lawmaking, but ultimate responsibility for the performance of government, how effective are governors in moving their programs through the legislature? This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives most successful and explores this theory through original data ...

Patterns of democracy

government forms and performance in thirty-six countries

In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important--and unexpected--conclusions about what type of democracy ...

Capitalist development and democracy

It is a commonplace claim of Western political discourse that capitalist development and democracy go hand in hand. Cross-national statistical research on political democracy supports this claim. By contrast, comparative historical studies carried out within a political economy approach argue that economic development was and ...

Patterns of democracy

government forms and performance in thirty-six countries

In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important--and unexpected--conclusions about what type of democracy ...

Normalidad de la crisis/crisis de la normalidad

El relato de la crisis se ha instalado en el discurso contemporáneo como el único marco posible para pensar nuestra actualidad. Ello, por cierto, ni es inocente ni carece de consecuencias: implica una domesticación simbólica y la adscripción a cierta tradición narrativa, en los términos ...

España se merce... democracia directa

Es más fácil cagarse en los políticos que afrontar una responsabilidad ciudadana. Es que hay que hacer cosas además de hablar; por uno mismo, por el propio país, para que esto mejore. Considera al opositor político casi como su mejor aliado, pues la política necesita ...