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Any contemporary state presents itself as committed to the “rule of law”, and this notion is perhaps the most powerful political ideal within the current global discourse on legal and political institutions. Despite being a contested concept, the rule of law is generally recognised as meaning that government is bound in all its actions by fixed and public rules, and that these rules respect certain formal requirements and are enforced by an independent judiciary. This book focuses on formal legality and the question of how to achieve good laws—a topic that was famously addressed by the 18th century enlightened thinkers, but also by prominent legal scholars of our time. Historically, th...
This book explores the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), putting Global South voices and perspectives at the centre of the analysis. Covering a wide range of thematic and methodological areas that inform existing and emerging discourses in SDP, it represents an unparalleled resource for researchers and practitioners working in this area. Arranged into geographical sections covering Africa, Asia, South America, North America and Oceania, the book presents original research in Global South countries or by Global South researchers and practitioners, sometimes in collaboration with colleagues from the Global North. It highlights practices and theories created, developed, interprete...
This is the first book in English to present a comprehensive analysis of the October 2019 social outbreak in Chile and its consequences for the country’s political system. For almost 30 years (1990-2019), Chile was recognized as a model of political and economic stability in Latin America, but the 2019 protests put into question the whole structure of representation based on programmatic political parties. This contributed volume analyzes the causes of the social outbreak by examining the interaction between political parties and social movements in Chile since 2000, establishing bridges between the sociology of social movements and the political science of parties and forms of traditional...
Desde el año 2002 el Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas ha promovido el Premio Nacional de Sociología y Ciencia Política, un reconocimiento a la trayectoria académica y científica de las más relevantes figuras de la Sociología y la Ciencia Política de España. Hasta la fecha de publicación de esta obra catorce han sido los galardonados, que sitúan a ambas disciplinas en niveles de excelencia y reflejan las diversas escuelas que han colaborado en el estudio de la evolución de nuestra sociedad y sus tendencias. Trayectorias en Sociología y Ciencia Política es un homenaje a las personas premiadas con esta distinción, que se han dedicado a analizar algo tan sutil y complejo de...