Instituciones, conflictos sociales y cambios PDF Download

Author: Giraldo García,Fernando
Publisher: Universidad del Norte
ISBN: 9587418271
Category : Political Science
Languages : es
Pages : 202

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Esta obra, dirigida a quienes actúan en el campo de las ciencias sociales, funcionarios públicos y de representación extranjera, investigadores e internacionalistas, presenta la visión de diversos autores acerca de los retos del cambio institucional en el siglo XXI. Se trata de un esfuerzo colectivo, basado en diversas evidencias, que nos permiten constatar el papel del Estado y de la sociedad civil frente a los múltiples cambios que se registran en el contexto regional, nacional e internacional y el impacto de estos en el sistema social y político.Además, la obra posee un hilo conductor - bajo la noción de un orden líquido -, de cambios profundos en las bases del orden social pero comprendidos desde la riqueza de la diversidad conceptual e ideológica, lo cual pone en contraste distintos enfoques respecto a las incertidumbres del mundo de hoy en los escenarios de poder, la política y del pensamiento.

Author: Adam Przeworski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788412533675
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 0

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Author: Catherine M. Conaghan
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Latin America in the 1980s was marked by the transition to democracy and a turn toward economic orthodoxy. Unsettling Statecraft analyzes this transition in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, focusing on the political dynamics underlying change and the many disturbing tendencies at work as these countries shed military authoritarianism for civilian rule.Conaghan and Malloy draw on insights from the political economy literature, viewing policy making as a "historically conditioned" process, and they conclude that the disturbing tendencies their research reveals are not due to regional pathology but are part of the more general experience of postmodern democracy.

Author: Arturo Escobar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429975937
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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This book, paying attention to the axes of identity, strategy, and democracy, grew out of the authors' shared and growing interest in contemporary social movements and the vast theoretical literature on these movements produced during the 1980s, particularly in Latin America and Western Europe.

Author: Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788176481397
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Ernest Bartell
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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These essays provide the first published research on Latin America’s business sectors after recent political transformations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru. They reveal the widely varied political and economic roles of business interests, particularly in regard to military regimes and the retreat of authoritarianism.

Author: Jonathan Fox
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317845234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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First published in 1990. The distribution of rural power in developing countries both shapes and is shaped by national politics. Focusing on Latin America and the Philippines, this volume addresses the question of why rural democratisation has proven to be so difficult across a wide range of national experiences.

Author: Thomas Poguntke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198888821
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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Democracy is in decline and the share of world's population living in freedom under democratic government has decreased considerably as authoritarian practices proliferate. Surprisingly, most of the analyses that study these developments give little attention to the role of political parties in the decline of democracy although there is a broad consensus about the relevance of political parties for the functioning of democracy. How parties can contribute to democracy is best understood by looking at a very diverse range of cases in different parts of the world. Instead of taking a regional approach which dominates the literature on political parties, this volume takes a global perspective. It brings together experts from four continents, which opens up fresh comparative perspectives on the role of political parties in the democratic process. Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy asks how parties contribute to the consolidation of democracy, why they fail today, why new parties emerge and displace old parties, and also what parties need to do in order to survive cutthroat competition, above all with a new (and sometimes not so new) variants of populist parties. It takes a unique global focus, covering old and new democracies in different regions of the world. It covers Western and Central Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, Turkey and Israel, including presidential, semi-presidential, and parliamentary democracies and also some countries where democracy is seriously threatened or eroding. This volume offers unique comparative perspectives combined with a detailed analysis of individual countries and their party systems. It shows that parties are central actors for the consolidation of democracy, but that organisational reforms are necessary to cope with social change such as individualisation, the decline in party membership and the impact of new media and modern communication, thus counteracting the fragmentation of party systems and the decay of democracy. This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

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Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: David Nugent
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804742382
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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The last several decades have witnessed major restructurings--economic, political, and cultural--in the international arena. The depth and scope of these changes have prompted anthropologists to rethink many of their most basic assumptions, to problematize issues that have long gone unexamined, and to grapple with new and unique problems. Doing so has left the discipline profoundly unsettled. Existing standards of scholarship and research methodologies have come under attack, key conceptual categories have been called into question, and truths once considered secure have been subjected to severe scrutiny and even ridicule. Seizing upon the opportunity afforded by the contemporary conjuncture of disciplinary crisis and redefinition, this book raises questions about two interrelated aspects of historical process and academic production. The volume contributes to ongoing debates about the degree to which the developments of recent decades represent the advent of a new historical era, a rupture with the past that requires new conceptualizations and logics in order to be understood. In confronting this question, the contributors to this volume have assembled a range of materials that place the present period of reconstruction in the context of a broader history and geography of other, related restructurings. Locating Capitalism in Time and Space also raises questions about the degree to which the scholarship of recent decades represents a qualitative break with that of the past. At issue here is whether one understands the history of academic production as a linear process of intellectual growth punctuated by major breakthroughs in understanding, or as a political process structured by the same kinds of inequalities and struggles that characterize the social worlds that are the object of anthropological analysis.