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Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) – human rights commissions and ombudsmen – have gained recognition as a possible missing link in the transmission and implementation of international human rights norms at the domestic level. They are also increasingly accepted as important participants in global and regional forums where international norms are produced. By collecting innovative work from experts spanning international law, political science, sociology and human rights practice, this book critically examines the significance of this relatively new class of organizations. It focuses, in particular, on the prospects of these institutions to effectuate state compliance and social change. Consideration is given to the role of NHRIs in delegitimizing – though sometimes legitimizing – governments' poor human rights records and in mobilizing – though sometimes demobilizing – civil society actors. The volume underscores the broader implications of such cross-cutting research for scholarship and practice in the fields of human rights and global affairs in general.
Disability in American Life [2 volumes]
Disability—as with other marginalized topics in social policy—is at risk for exclusion from social debate. This multivolume reference work provides an overview of challenges and opportunities for people with disabilities and their families at all stages of life. Once primarily thought of as a medical issue, disability is now more widely recognized as a critical issue of identity, personhood, and social justice. By discussing challenges confronting people with disabilities and their families and by collecting numerous accounts of disability experiences, this volume firmly situates disability within broader social movements, policy, and areas of marginalization, providing a critical examin...
Prevention Science and Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Prevention Science and Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Volume 61 highlights the WHOs emphasis on the importance of adopting a public health approach. Chapters in the book include A Prevention Science Approach to Promoting Health for Those with Developmental Disabilities, From Surviving to Thriving: A New Conceptual Model to Advance Interventions to Support People with FASD Across the Lifespan, Disability-related Abuse in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Considerations Across the Lifespan, Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Qualitative Study of Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives on Factors Affecting Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices for Chil...
Direito das Infraestruturas: Um Estudo dos Distintos Mercados Regulados
O Direito das Infraestruturas, como novo Direito, engloba o estudo do conjunto de elementos ou serviços que se consideram necessários para a criação e funcionamento de uma determinada atividade econômica. É uma nova área que tem sua essência no aprofundamento do processo de desestatização e regulação de diferentes mercados; na análise do desmembramento de atividades complementares ou ligadas a uma mesma cadeia produtiva, bem como no estabelecimento de concorrência em diferentes fases das atividades; na definição de uma mesma atividade de distintas naturezas jurídicas (serviço público e atividade econômica em sentido estrito); na busca de novos mecanismos de gestão e financiamento para evitar que as infraestruturas dos distintos setores entrem em colapso; entre outros. Desse modo, apresentam-se estudos de reconhecidos estudiosos dispostos em sete divisões temáticas: I Pressupostos básicos do estado regulador e Políticas Públicas Aplicadas; II As Infraestruturas Públicas; III Regulação d as Energias; IV Regulação das Comunicações; V Regulação das Águas; VI Regulação dos Transportes; e VII Defesa da concorrência no Direito das Infraestruturas.
OECD Public Governance Reviews Public Procurement in Nuevo León, Mexico Promoting Efficiency through Centralisation and Professionalisation
This review examines the ongoing public procurement reforms in Nuevo León, Mexico: both the progress achieved so far and the many challenges that remain.
The Comic Spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca
During the years since his death, Federico García Lorca, Spain's best-known twentieth-century poet and playwright, has generally been considered a writer of tragedy. Three of his major plays are fatalistic stories of suffering and death, and his poetry is filled with dread. Yet most of Lorca's dramatic production consists of comedies and farces. Throughout his poetry and prose, as well as in his most somber plays, runs an undercurrent of humor—dark irony and satire—that is in no way contradictory to his tragic view of life. On the contrary, as Virginia Higginbotham demonstrates, through humor Lorca defines, intensifies, and tries to come to terms with what he sees as the essentially hop...
Mariana Pineda
Mariana Pineda (1925) was Lorca's first success in the theatre. Based on a popular Andalusian ballad, it tells the story of Mariana Pineda who was garrotted in 1831 under the reactionary regime of Ferdinand VII for embroidering a Liberal flag and refusing to betray her lover.
