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Dialettiche del Risorgimento: Del Noce e Frosini interpreti della storia politica italiana
2021
Nel saggio si propone un confronto tra le interpretazioni del Risorgimento di Augusto Del Noce e Vittorio Frosini. Ne sono concetti di particolare rilievo l’incontro tra cattolicesimo e spirito liberale o l’accostamento tra i valori risorgimentali di una libertà di ispirazione laica e democratica. Antonio Rosmini e Giuseppe Mazzini costituiscono tra le principali fonti e premesse speculative sulle cui basi poggia il discorso politico dell’uno e dell’altro. The essay proposes a comparison between the interpretations of the Risorgimento by Augusto Del Noce and Vittorio Frosini. Concepts of particular importance are the encounter between Catholicism and the liberal spirit or the juxtaposition …
Democracia, república y federación en época isabelina. Una aproximación al proyecto federal de Roque Barcia Martí = Democracy, Republic and Federatio…
2016
Este artículo propone una aproximación al proyecto federal defendido por Roque Barcia Martí a mediados del siglo XIX, prestando especial atención a los principios teóricos y los argumentos –inspirados por una fuerte religiosidad– que sustentan su propuesta. Más allá de la estricta cuestión territorial o de las plasmaciones jurídico-políticas concretas, la federación aparece como una solución global a las tensiones de la modernidad que el Estado liberal no sabía solucionar. En este planteamiento, el campo político se configura como un espacio de humanización que reclama, como punto de partida, la necesaria reformulación política del Estado para transformar la sociedad y, potencialmente, la h…
On the distribution of education and democracy
2006
This paper empirically analyzes the influence of the distribution of education on democracy by controlling for unobservable heterogeneity and by taking into account the persistency of some of the variables. The most novel finding is that increase in the education attained by the majority of the population is what matters for the implementation and sustainability of democracy, rather than the average years of schooling. We show this result is robust to issues pertaining omitted variables, outliers, sample selection, or a narrow definition of the variables used to measure democracy.
SCALING LAWS FOR THE LIFETIMES OF GOVERNMENTS IN THE SZNAJD DEMOCRACY
2005
We investigate the lifetimes of governments in the original and a randomized one-dimensional Sznajd model. We find various scaling laws for the lifetime of the democracy and for the reigning time of governments in this model, depending on the system size N.
How Democratic is Latvia? Audit of Democracy 2005–2014
2015
The Audit of Democracy 2014 prepared within the scope of National Research Programme “National Identity”. Audit preparation and publication supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the United States Embassy in Latvia.
Council Appointed Mayors in Spain: Effects on Local Democracy
2017
El presente artículo toma en consideración los efectos que el sistema de elección del Alcalde tiene sobre la democracia local, basándose en la consideración cinco aspectos: el sistema electoral y su influencia en la composición política de las administraciones locales; la estructura de la administración local y la distribución de funciones entre los alcaldes y el pleno municipal; el papel de los partidos políticos; los mecanismos de control del ejecutivo local y la participación ciudadana. El estudio subraya especialmente la incidencia que el sistema de elección del alcalde por los concejales tiene en relación con los principios de responsabilidad, legitimidad, transparencia y eficiencia de…
Humanities and Social Sciences. Latvia, vol. 29, N 2 (Autumn-Winter 2021)
2021
Harnessing ICT to develop community and identity: a model for academic departments
2006
Universities have been early adopters of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). However, does availability imply use? How is ICT being used by academic departments? This article addresses these questions, and discusses the use of ICT to support research, instruction and service, but more specifically, the use of ICT to enhance a sense of identity and community across all members of a department. The authors' observations of university departments across the Atlantic reveal very limited uses of ICT. A democratic web-based academic departmental community model is proposed to assist in the strengthening of departmental identity and community as well as advancing its mission. Concept…
Il governo tecnocratico della moneta e i crocevia del processo di integrazione europea. Riflessioni alla luce della sentenza Weiss
2021
The well known judgment of the German Constitutional Court in the “Weiss” case has been widely criticized under EU law, mainly because of its being in contrast with a preliminary ruling rendered by the European Court of Justice in 2018. At variance with these criticisms, it is here submitted that such a judgment brings well into focus some institutional ambiguities of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); namely, the powers (more and more) exercised by the European Central Bank (ECB) in the field of macroeconomic regulation and control, in spite of (its) not being provided with political legitimacy. Seen in this perspective, the “Karlsruhe” judgment objectively looks as aimed at restoring …
Crisi dell'età dei diritti?
2013
The paper discusses various criticisms that are frequently leveled against the so-called “age of rights” – i.e., the contemporary legal and political doctrine that places funda-mental rights at the center of legal and political discourse, and that shapes legal institu-tions accordingly (written, rigid constitution, judicial review of legislation, etc.). After providing a definition of the main features of the age of rights, the author discusses and tries to rebut the principal critical stances on this topic, mainly by making use of the theoretical tools deployed by contemporary analytical jurisprudence on legal rights and legal reasoning.