Author: Inter-American Commission on Human RightsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900453024X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Volume 19 (2003)
Author: Inter-American Commission on Human RightsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900453024X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Violence Against Women in Politics
Author: Mona Lena KrookPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019008846X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Women have made significant inroads into politics in recent years, but in many parts of the world, their increased engagement has spurred physical attacks, intimidation, and harassment intended to deter their participation. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this phenomenon, exploring how women came to give these experiences a name - violence against women in politics - and lobbied for its increased recognition by citizens, states, and international organizations. Tracing how this concept emerged inductively on the global stage, the volume draws on research in multiple disciplines to resolve lingering ambiguities regarding its contours. It argues that this phenomenon is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against political rivals. Rather, violence against women in politics is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors. Drawing on a wide range of country examples, the book illustrates what this violence looks like in practice, as well as catalogues emerging solutions around the world. Issuing a call to action, it considers how to document this phenomenon more effectively, as well as understand the political and social implications of allowing violence against women in politics to continue unabated. Highlighting the threats it poses to democracy, human rights, and gender equality, the volume concludes that tackling violence against women in politics requires ongoing dialogue and collaboration to ensure women's equal rights to participate - freely and safely - in political life around the globe"--
ABC Pol Sci
Author: State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 1
Author: Miguel A. CentenoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107311306
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.
FIVE REPUBLICS OF CENTRAL AMERICA
Author: DANA G. MUNROPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033741573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bibliografía de obras sobre el derecho de los Estados Unidos de América en lenguas extranjeras
Author: Marie-Louise H. BernalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : es
Pages : 68
Book Description
Marbury Versus Madison
Author: Mark A. GraberPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Combines documents and analytical essays timed for the bicentennial in 2003. It explains the constitutional, political, philosophical background to judicial review, the historical record leading to this landmark case and the impact of the decision since 1803.
Why INEGI? The saga of a Mexican institution in search of the truth
Author: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y GeografíaPublisher: INEGI
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The book presents the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, what is and how it has developed over time, since it was founded in 1983. The Institute is today an eminently technical and at the same time autonomous body of the Mexican State.Beyond a chronology of events, this book raises two needs that have marked the Institute's evolution: the first, to properly measure the many components of reality, whether social, economic or natural; and the second, decisive for the public's trust and whose absence would invalidate the purposes of the previous need, to preserve the information from any consideration, other than strictly professional, in all stages of its production and dissemination.This work conveys INEGI's transcendence as an indispensable institution for the country to respond to the fundamental question, common to all human beings: to know and understand the reality of their environment.
In Search of a New Order
Author: Eduardo Posada CarbóPublisher: Institute of Latin American Studies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 192
Book Description
This collection of essays, the result of the second workshop on nineteenth-century Latin America held at ILAS examines various aspects of the question of 'order' in the region after Independence. The volume opens with a chapter by Anthony McFarlane who looks at the first attempts to create a new political order in New Granada in 1810-15. This is followed by papers by Ana María Stuven and Paul Gootenberg discussing how intellectuals perceived the question of 'order' in Chile and Peru respectively. In the third section Eduardo Zimmermann and Frédéric Martinez examine aspects of law and order in relation to the judiciary in Buenos Aires and the police in Bogotá. The volume closes with chapters by Carlos Malamud and Guy Thomson who analyse aspects of public order and revolutions in Argentina and Mexico respectively.
The Early Colombian Labor Movement
Author: David SowellPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9780877229650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
David Sowell traces the history of artisan labor organizations in Bogotá and examines long-term political activity of Colombian artisans in the century after independence. Relying on contemporary newspapers, political handouts, broadsides, and public petitions, Sowell analyzes the economic, social, and political history of the capital's artisan class, a middling social sector with very significant social and political strengths. This is the first study in English of nineteenth-century Latin American artisans and one of the few treatments that spans the whole of nineteenth-century Colombian history.The rise and late decline of artisan class political activity coincided the Colombia's integration into the world market. Initially petitioning for tariff protection, Bogotá's craftsmen in time mobilized to address numerous issues, including industrial education, internal trade order, credit, and better health and educational facilities. Sowell traces the transformation of Colombia's economy and the (mainly negative) effects its evolution had on bogotano artisans. By the end of the nineteenth century, the artisans class was fragmented, their labor leadership replaced by workers associated with industrial production, transportation systems, and the production of coffee. Author note: David Sowell is Assistant Professor of History at Juniata College.