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Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty
2021
The aim of this article is to read Rogues, in order to show that Derrida is neither a philosopher of democracy nor a critic of sovereignty , but rather a thinker of democratic sovereignty. Taking my cue from his Aporias, I argue that democratic sovereignty is aporetically in excess over itself, for it is based on articulating the path through the im-possible passage from the unconditional injunction of the ‘promise’ to the exigency of sovereignty. That is why it can neither be absorbed into the conditions of any existing democracy nor abstracted into any pure identity of sovereignty. Political trends today fail in enduring the aprioricity of aporia, as neoliberals valorize the posited condi…
Criminal networks analysis in missing data scenarios through graph distances.
2021
Data collected in criminal investigations may suffer from: (i) incompleteness, due to the covert nature of criminal organisations; (ii) incorrectness, caused by either unintentional data collection errors and intentional deception by criminals; (iii) inconsistency, when the same information is collected into law enforcement databases multiple times, or in different formats. In this paper we analyse nine real criminal networks of different nature (i.e., Mafia networks, criminal street gangs and terrorist organizations) in order to quantify the impact of incomplete data and to determine which network type is most affected by it. The networks are firstly pruned following two specific methods: …
Voluntad política para un tiempo de reformas: Presupuestos previos para abordar una reforma constitucional
2019
The vast majority of Spaniards is in favor of a constitutional reform. Before the undertaking of this reform, there are some previous conditions that need to be granted: a rational debate on ideas; a reduction of the political and social tension; a common goodwill to reach a consensus; and some loyalty during negotiations. As many other scholars, the author agrees that instead of talking about a constitutional reform, it would be more adequate to talk about some constitutional reforms, that should be undertaken gradually. He also stresses that these reforms do not imply the opening of a new constituent process. In addition, he underlines the fact that the Catalan crisis should not be the tr…
Las elecciones en las Comunidades Autónomas
2003
SUMARIO: I. Introducción. - II. Las Fuentes del Derecho Electoral de las Comunidades Autónomas. 1. Constitución. 2. Ley Orgánica del Régimen Electoral General. 3. Estatutos de Autonomía y leyes ordinarias. - III. Los principios del bloque de constitucionalidad que inspiran el derecho de sufragio de las comunidades Autónomas. 1. Universal. 2. Libre. 3. Igual. 4. Secreto. - IV. Los elementos generales del sistema electoral de las comunidades autónomas. 1. El cuerpo electoral. 2. Circunscripción electoral. 3. La fórmula electoral. 4. La barrera legal. - V. El procedimiento electoral. 1. La periodicidad electoral y la disolución anticipada. 2. La Administración electoral.
30 minutes of philosophy of law: Old and new problems
2007
Este trabajo recoge la intervención que cerró el seminario «Derecho, ética y política. Un debate en torno a la obra de Ernesto Garzón Valdés» (Alicante, 15 y 16 de junio de 2007). En ella se recogen algunas reflexiones del autor sobre los problemas cruciales de los que debería ocuparse la filosofía del Derecho contemporánea: 1) Estado de Derecho y terrorismo; 2) el impacto de las investigaciones neurológicas en el concepto de responsabilidad; 3) la erosión de las estructuras institucionales a nivel internacional; 4) la relación entre etica, política y Derecho desde el punto de vista de una filosofía analítica del Derecho; y 5) América Latina como contexto de investigación jurídico-filosófic…
Book Review: Dialectics in Social Thought
2014
Peace as a Priority
2012
Chapter 9 underlines how since its inception the European Union has presented itself to the world as a great “peace project”. The European project consists in creating a “community of peace and democracy” based on the conviction that peace does not emerge from dissuasion but rather out of cooperation. Europe attempts to remodel the world by realising the Kantian dream of “perpetual peace”, which is not based on the balance of military powers (or the supremacy of one of them) but rather on the universal recognition of the dignity of the human being, on the universal guarantee of human rights, and on sustainable human development, which means superseding the current neoliberal model of global…
Rivoluzione cognitivista e teoria del diritto: un programma di ricerca
2017
Questo scritto ha un carattere esclusivamente programmatico. È dedicato alla presentazione delle linee essenziali di un programma di ricerca nel quale siamo impegnati già da un po’ di tempo, e che intendiamo sviluppare nel prossimo futuro. Nei primi due paragrafi tratteggiamo sommariamente il contesto culturale e scientifico della “rivoluzione cognitivista”, nel quale il nostro programma si colloca (behavioural law and economics; responsabilità e imputabilità; euristiche e bias nella decisione giudiziale). Nel terzo paragrafo elenchiamo le linee di ricerca affini già battute da altri autori. Il quarto paragrafo è dedicato alla formulazione del nucleo centrale del nostro programma: quali son…
Split-ticket voting in German Federal elections, 1953–90: an example of sophisticated balloting?
1999
Abstract Though the German electoral system has provided the opportunity of split-ticket voting since 1953, until now there has only been mere speculation concerning the rationality of ticket-splitting. In this paper we examine the rationality thesis empirically, using data provided by the official representative electoral statistics of the Federal Republic. Modifying the Downsian notion of rational voting, rational ticket-splitting is defined in terms of coalition building and of voters' expectations of the electoral success of candidates and parties. Applying this conceptual framework, it will be shown that the combinations of first and second votes actually chosen by a majority of the Ge…
Europe’s Path to Public Reason
2012
Chapter 7 highlights how addressing public issues publicly is a main target of European institutions, considering their commitment to the identification of shared values and the protection of rights. In consideration of this, it is reasonable to ask whether the “Public Reason” set forth by Rawls can be somehow applied to Europe’s current perspective, understanding it to be the ruling criterion governing public issues. A major obstacle is to be found in the anti-pluralistic attitude which is widespread across the European states. However, constitutionalism, which is nowadays widely rooted on a global scale, makes contemporary political communities to characterize by disagreement and by the n…