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Decentralizing the State
This book, first published in 2005, explores the location and dynamics of power within the state, focusing on a recent wave of decentralizing reforms that have swept across both developed and developing countries in recent years. Variation in the timing of reform across countries only vaguely relates to the genesis of an international consensus pushed by big lenders and development banks or the reemergence of democracy in decentralizing countries. The book develops a theory linking decentralization's adoption to the electoral concerns of political parties: decentralization represents a desirable strategy for parties whose support at subnational levels appears more secure than their prospects in national elections. It examines this argument against experiences in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela and speculates on how recent political changes may affect decentralization's shape and extent in coming years.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification
This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world. The classification of race and ethnicity by the state is a common way to organize and make sense of populations in many countries, from the national census and birth and death records, to identity cards and household surveys. As populations have grown, diversified, and become increasingly transnational and mobile, single and mutually exclusive categories struggle to adequately capture the complexity of identities and heritages in multicultural societies. State motivations for classification vary widely, an...
En configuración permanente
Las elecciones nacionales del 2018 y las locales del 2019 fueron las primeras elecciones realizadas después de la firma del Acuerdo Final para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Construcción de una Paz Estable y Duradera firmado entre el Gobierno nacional y la guerrilla de las farc. El punto dos de dicho Acuerdo se enfocó en la participación política y en el sistema electoral colombiano para promover la apertura democrática y con esto facilitar la transición del grupo armado a la vida legal. Si bien las reformas políticas que buscaban reglamentar lo pactado por el Gobierno se hundieron en el Legislativo, los cambios políticos e institucionales han incidido en la configuración de un...
Policy Analysis in Colombia
Leading Colombian academics and experienced policy practitioners cast new light on their country in this systematic overview of policy analysis for an international audience. Examining the historical development and current status of policy analysis as a field of study and in practice, it considers public policy analysis in government and the judiciary, and across domains including health, education and the military. Contributors also delve into Colombia’s notable success in economic regeneration, the management of cultural diversity and the resolution of long-term internal armed conflict. Not just an important summation of policy analysis in Colombia, this book also provides insights and lessons applicable elsewhere.
Elections before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America
This book looks at various aspects of electoral history in Europe and Latin America, from the late 17th century to 1930, including electoral culture and traditions, electoral participation, electoral fraud, the role of elections in the process of nation-building, and the role of important institutions, such as the Church, in shaping political values and therefore electoral behaviour. There are chapters devoted to the individual experiences of England, Mexico, Ecuador, Ireland, Germany, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Spain.
Between Possibility and Peril
When do domestic courts protect international human rights? By the end of the twentieth century, the world had witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of international human rights law and a growing number of democratic states whose domestic institutions promised to protect those rights. A single institution often became the center of these efforts: the court. Advocates in newly democratized states could look to high courts to demand that their governments comply with international law and bring policy into line with liberal rhetoric. This process, however, put these young courts in a difficult position. With no deep well of historical legitimacy to draw on in new political environments, cour...
Testigos olvidados
Testigos olvidados recoge los testimonios de 21 reporteros que cubrieron los procesos de paz desarrollados entre 1982 y 2016. Comienza con un breve contexto sobre el origen de la guerra en Colombia desde 1948 hasta el inicio del gobierno de Belisario Betancur, primer Presidente de la era reciente en intentar un proceso de paz con los grupos insurgentes. Después de esto, cada gobierno presidencial cuenta con un contexto en materia de paz para que el lector se ubique cronológicamente en los hechos. Seguido al contexto de cada gobierno se abren paso los testimonios que no pretenden explicar al lector la manera correcta de cubrir unas negociaciones, sino que, simplemente, presentan unas experiencias y construyenm memoria sobre algunos de los aspectos menos documentados en la historia de Colombia. De igual manera, este texto no busca dilucidar una verdad única alrededor del cubrimiento periodístico de los procesos de paz, sino que presenta los testimonios, anécdotas y experiencias de los reporteros que, trabajando para un medio de comunicación, siguieron el paso a paso de las negociaciones de paz entre el gobierno colombiano y las guerrillas.
