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Māwardī and Machiavelli : Reflections on Power in their Mirrors for Princes
2018
Abstract Despite their apparently contradictory views on religion’s role in statecraft, and despite being separated by both history and geography, Al-Mawardi and Machiavelli approach the question of political power in an unapologetically direct fashion. This paper interrogates their philosophies and the way in which their highly unstable social settings and their rather more stable religious traditions intersect in two of their key texts, The Ordinances of Government and The Prince, respectively. These texts demonstrate that even early Muslim tradition had a theory of impersonal governance, whereas 500 years later Europeans had by no means given up on narratives of personified power.
F. Marco Simón - F. Pina Polo- J. Remesal Rodríguez (edd.), Religión y propaganda política en el mundo romano, Barcelona 2002
2004
Review of the volume collecting the papers of the I Colloquio de Historia Antigua held in June 2001 at the University of Zaragoza on the theme "Religión y propaganda política en el mundo romano" and the relationship between religion and political power
Du sujet foucaldien au sujet post-moderne. Laïcité et déni du politique dans le système scolaire français
2008
Le passage des sociétés modernes aux sociétés postmodernes impose la réévaluation de la notion de sujet et des modalités de construction de la règle scolaire. Si, à l’école, le contrôle devient régulation, la question de la nécessaire intériorisation de la loi scolaire gomme celle de l’arbitraire et de la plurivocité des règles. La spécificité du système éducatif français tient à la construction historique républicaine de la laïcité, abusivement saisie comme neutralité politique ou religieuse. Le déni du caractère négociable et interprétatif des normes scolaires scelle le caractère politique de l’institution scolaire et les difficultés à penser collectivement le lien/lieu scolaire.
Non-elected Political Elites in the EU
2017
With globalization and Europeanization, profound changes have taken place in the composition and structure of elites. Once solidly tied to the nation state, elites have, following processes of differentiation and specialization, become more transnational than ever before. Their development has been conditioned by the evolving relationship between international, transnational, and national powers. In the European context, key institutional players today include the European Commission, the European Ombudsman and the European Court of Justice as aspiring representatives of the general European interest and the Council of Ministers and member states as representing national interests in the EU…
VOX Spain: The Organisational Challenges of a New Radical Right Party
2021
This article examines the organisation of VOX, a new radical right party in Spain. It shows that the party has taken early and uneven steps to build a mass organisation and initially opted for open membership recruitment with participatory organisational elements. Also, the party’s rapid growth and quick entrance into political institutions at different state levels led the party leadership to establish more centralised control and limit members’ prerogatives, though recruitment continued. Centralisation in part responds to organisational needs given the party’s quickly acquired political relevance, but also to the desire of the central party leadership to forestall the articulation of terr…