Search results for "Autonomy"
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Trade and Interlegality
2019
The idea that the WTO legal system and its institutional bodies (especially the judicial branch) have developed a single-sided ides of what is good and would attempt to impose a deep-rooted liberalization agenda on the rest of world is hardly corroborated by an empirical analysis. Quite the contrary, recourse to a series of legal techniques has made it possible to leave open a space for reciprocal understanding and debate with other circuits of legality.
Federalism, Cultural Policies, and Identity Pluralism: Cooperation and Conflict in the Spanish Quasi-Federal System
2014
The division of cultural policy between different levels of administration and the coordination between them in federal countries is a relatively neglected area of research, even though the cultural sphere always requires a balanced combination of autonomy and governance. A particularly interesting case of this equilibrium arises in Spain; often described as a quasi-federal system, both regarding its model of state and within the sphere of cultural policy. However, we demonstrate that, despite the broadly decentralized development of cultural administration in Spain—a plurinational and multicultural state—different recent judicial and political processes are distorting the quasi-federalism …
The Rocky Road towards Professional Autonomy : The Estonian Journalists’ Organization in the Political Turmoil of the 20th Century
2017
This article attempts to explain the relationships between journalists, politics and the state from the perspective of collective autonomy, that of the professional organization of journalists. The case of Estonian Journalists’ Union demonstrates the complexity and historical contingency of professional autonomy of journalism. The development of the Estonian journalists’ organization occurred as a sequence of transformations from the Estonian Journalists’ Association to the Estonian Journalists’ Union to the Soviet type journalists’ union, and lastly to an independent trade union. This sequence was disrupted by several fatal breakdowns that changed not only the character of the association,…
La régulation de l'éducation en France et dans les pays anglo-saxons. Une comparaison
2004
The autonomy of the schools increased in most educational systems for the last twenty years. So, educational systems had to implement regulation policies in order to orient the action of the agents towards the nation's aims. While England and the United States implemented a regulation by results (incentives linked to school's or teacher's results), France relies on a regulation by process (incentives to implement ‘pedagogical forms' which are supposed to be relevant). These two policies are described, then they are confronted with regard to their internal coherence and tensions, with in mind the question of the French model being a viable one, able to offer an option to the anglo-saxon mode…
How Much Power to Tax do Regional Governments Enjoy in Spain Since the 1996 and 2001 Reforms?
2010
From 1979 to 1983, a new intermediate level of government was created in Spain. This article focuses on the financial aspects of political decentralization in Spain. How much power to tax do the new regional parliaments and executives enjoy? What other sources of income do they dispose of? Which rules have been settled for regulating their tax and non-tax sources of income? Has fiscal decentralization affected fiscal discipline? Are these governments now financially autonomous? These are the questions addressed. The article shows that, with the exception of the Basque Country and Navarre, regional governments were financed mainly through intergovernmental grants during the 1980s and 1990s. …
Is the Categorical Imperative the Highest Principle of Both Pure Practical and Theoretical Reason?
2014
AbstractIn her new book, Patricia Kitcher supports Onora O'Neill's view that the categorical imperative is the highest principle of both practical and theoretical reason. I claim that neither O'Neill's original interpretation nor Kitcher's additional evidence in favour of it are convincing. At its core, this misconception of Kant's position consists in the identification of self-referential critique of reason with the concept of autonomy. It will be shown that the ‘common principle’ (Kant) of both practical and theoretical reason is not the categorical imperative, but the reflective power of judgement, as Kant claims in the Critique of the Power of Judgement.
Phenomenology of precarity
2021
Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method has mostly been applied to epistemological questions. However, it also has great potential for analysing phenomena of social and political relevance. This text outlines a phenomenology of social precariousness, showing how it impacts the experiential, temporal, perceptual and self-perceptual structures of the subject, thereby influencing intergenerational relations.
Acerca de la redefinición de la autonomía privada en la sociedad tecnológica
2018
La sociedad tecnológica del siglo XXI exige una redefinición de la autonomía de la voluntad como principio vertebrador del Derecho privado. Este artículo introduce una reflexión sobre la actualidad de este principio a la luz de dos fenómenos: la creciente vulnerabilidad del consumidor en la contratación de productos y servicios complejos y el incierto panorama resultante de la implementación de la tecnología blockchain a las transacciones contractuales inter privatos. Technological Society in the 21st Century requires a redefinition of principle of private autonomy. This essay analyses this issue referring to the problems of vulnerable consumer and application of blockchain technology to pr…
Los contratos en materia de reproducción humana asistida: especial tratamiento de la autonomía de la voluntad en las donaciones de gametos y en el de…
2022
RESUMEN: A pesar de que en nuestro país la autonomía privada preside la regulación principal en materia de contratos, ésta se encuentra ampliamente condicionada a la hora de suscribir acuerdos en materia de reproducción humana asistida. En consecuencia, es la Ley 14/2006, de 26 de mayo, la que establece ineludiblemente las pautas y requisitos que deben cumplir las partes intervinientes. De esta forma, las donaciones de gametos llevadas a cabo en nuestro país, o la toma de decisión sobre el destino que habrá de darse a los embriones crioconservados, están absolutamente marcados por la ley, dejando un escaso margen de actuación a las clínicas y usuarias que participan en estas prácticas. Por …
Teachers’ Use of Internet Resources for Preparing English Lessons
2011
The twenty-first century is unquestionably the age of the Internet, which is an inexhaustible source of information instantly available. Multimodal texts obtained via the Internet, cheap, authentic and varied, may be successfully used in the process of teaching foreign languages. The paper presents the results of a survey which aimed at diagnosing if and how teachers of English as a foreign language use Internet resources in their teaching. The results reveal that almost all the respondents, young of age and of teaching experience, are skilled Internet users who strongly rely on this resource also in their professional activity. They use the Internet to find teaching materials that suppleme…