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A Fascism That Came to Stay? On Spanish Falange’s Political Culture

2019

Sanz offers a synthetic analysis on the development of the fascist political culture in Spain, as part of the renewed recent Spanish historiography and the integration of the history of that country in its European context. To that end, he explores its cultural roots in the renewed nationalism developed since the turn of the century and its ideological and political construction in the assault on the Second Republic’s democracy. Likewise, it shows the development of the political culture of Falange, fully fascist based on an ultranationalistic, regenerationist, “revolutionary” and “traditional” synthesis, in dialectic with the cultures of the reactionary nationalism and the Catholic right. …

“Lack of interest in politics”: a result of non-democratic experiences or of the non-existence of the Kantian republican state in the 21st century?

2019

This essay examines the appearance of distrust, disinterest and aversion to politics and political participation in today’s democracies by taking the Kantian concept of a republican state into account. The goal is to find out reasons for the lack of interest in politics by investigating certain aspects in today’s democracies that might be not in compliance with the Kantian understanding of republicanism. The essay will start with an examination of the republican state and why it is mostly referred to as being much as the parliamentary democracy we know today. Then, these results will be compared with modern democracies (USA, Switzerland and Germany) in order to find the underlying reasons f…

From US Colony to Independent Country: The Construction of a State

2017

This chapter covers the twentieth century, when the Philippines were changed by the US colonization after a brutal war of conquest. Progress in education, medicine, urbanization and transportation was obvious, while the Americans fostered the development of a Filipino political class that was called to govern the country alongside American political ideals, as was hoped with the implementation of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1935 under president Quezon. The difficult years of the Japanese occupation gave place to an independent nation in 1946, which had to deal with the presence of US military bases during the Cold War, profound social inequalities inherited from the Spanish period, and a…

The EU, the Nation-State, and the Perennial Challenge to European Integration

2020

This introductory chapter sheds new light on the increasingly complex relationship between the European Union and the nation-state—in its capacity as EU member state—at a time when its fundamental values are being called into question by prominent political currents. The chapter explores the concept of the nation-state in a contemporary European context and shows that tensions between supranationalism and intergovernmentalism are since long a defining feature of European integration. The chapter then introduces the book’s interdisciplinary approach which offers different disciplinary perspectives on how the return of the nation-state impacts the EU’s ability to meet the multifaceted challen…

Vācijas pašaizsargājošās demokrātijas modeļa piemērošanas iespējas Latvijā

2017

Maģistra darbs “Vācijas pašaizsargājošās demokrātijas modeļa piemērošanas iespējas Latvijā” ir izstrādāts ar mērķi analizēt demokrātijas aizsardzības veidus un apdraudējuma pakāpi, kā arī sabiedrības attieksmi pret demokrātijas pašaizsargāšanās modeli Latvijā. Pētījuma iecere saistāma apstāklī, ka demokrātiskās iekārtas stiprināšana un nodrošināšana pret iespējamu apdraudējumu ir ar pieaugošu aktualitāti Latvijas politiskajā procesā un sabiedriskajā domā. Pētījumā analizēts pašaizsargājošās demokrātijas teorētiskais modelis, tā ieviešana un attīstība Vācijā, kā arī analizēti demokrātijas aizsardzības veidi Latvijas Republikas likumdošanā un politiskajā procesā, tos aplūkojot kontekstā ar ie…

La Política de la Educación social en la Europa de las desigualdades

2013

The aim of this research is to analyse some indicators which allow us to understand the current state of social education politics in Europe, with special reference to Spain. Some European and Spanish social and educational policies which try to confront the challenges of the current financial crisis are also explained. Some deficiencies, failures and contradictions attached to the process of the construction of European citizenship are pointed out. Some key topics which seem to foresee a deeper social and democratic crisis apart from the economic one are tackled. It is explained how the new forms of inequality evidence the failure of some of the important declarations of intent and objecti…

Defending democracy against technocracy and populism : deliberative democracy's strengths and challenges

2020

Me the people. How populism transforms democracy. ByNadia Urbinati. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press2019.

2020

Populism, Its Prevalence, and Its Negative Influence on Democratic Institutions

2022

Populism is presented as a severe challenge to democracies as it delegitimises the institutions and processes on which democratic society is built. The infectious nature of populism within a system drives a shift in the public mood. The authors investigate this phenomenon through a content analysis of party posts on Facebook during the 2019 European parliamentary elections across 12 countries. They find almost a quarter of posts contain some form of populism, with anti-elitism the most common trope. Populist appeals are most likely to accompany critiques of labour and social policy, labelling elites or minority groups as causing inequalities which disadvantage the ordinary people. Both form…

Using self-controlled case series to understand the relationship between conflict and cholera in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo

2021

Abstract Background Cholera outbreaks contribute significantly to diarrhoeal disease mortality, especially in low-income countries. Cholera outbreaks have several social and environmental risk factors and extreme conditions can act as catalysts for outbreaks. A social extreme with known links to infectious disease outbreaks is conflict, causing disruption to services, loss of income and displacement. Methods Here, we explored this relationship in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), by fitting publicly available cholera and conflict data to conditional logistic regression models. We used the self-controlled case series method in a novel application, to understand if an exposu…