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A Brief Review of the History of Reforms to the Legal Regulations of Political Parties in Mexico

This article studies the major reforms in the history of the legal regulation of political parties in Mexico based on the political context in which they took place. The objective is to explain their ... Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Legal Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Email: . Abstract

Towards a Periodization of Oscar Correas’ Critical Legal Theory

the Marxism of the critique of political economy (this from the 1970s to the late 1980s), and the second, with a markedly linguistic turn, embracing skepticism, although he never completely abandons ... America and its particularities. In this sense, I propose the hypothesis of the existence of a “First Correas” and a “Second Correas.” The first aligns itself with Marx’s critique of political economy

How Effective are Hybrid Anti-Corruption Agencies in Tackling Political Corruption? The Case of the Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala

Literature on political corruption agrees that in contexts with widespread corruption, curbing it through institutions is insufficient. That is, formal rules like laws and anti-corruption agencies ... *  * Research Assitant at Latin America Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO, Mexico). M.A. in Corruption and Governance, University of Sussex, UK. Email: . Abstract Literature on political corruption

Report on abusive judicial review of electoral matters

authoritarian tools used by groups of an anti-democratic nature. That is to say, the circumstance that the courts and not the political actors are the ones that implement undemocratic measures with the advantage ... Institute of Human Rights "René Cassin", Strasbourg, France. Specialist in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid, Spain. Author of the Book

Patents in medicine and health as an integral human right

thought of one of the vital enlightenment writers on legal and political philosophy, Immanuel Kant. Kant places the idea of universality at the center of his moral philosophy, and he uses the term ... various international instruments. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural

England’s Stilicho: Claudian’s Political Poetry in Early Modern England

the political poetry of Claudian. This relationship is significant, firstly, because its political force and point suggests a major role for an author who has been largely excluded from studies of ... classical reception in the period, but whose cultural importance is borne out, as this article aims to demonstrate, by a full examination of extant sources; secondly, because Fisher’s political verse of the

The Classical ‘Traception’: Reconceptualizing Classics in Africa (With an Analysis of Fugard, Kani and Ntshona’s The Island)

Classics has been used for various social, cultural and political purposes on the African sub-continent. Part I highlights some theoretical considerations regarding the traditional models of the ... and political purposes, as reflected, for example, in the cultural area of drama. Examining one of these dramatic texts from South Africa -- Fugard, Kani and Ntshona’s The Island -- by using the models

Nostalgia de la muerte by Xavier Villaurrutia within German language philosophical tradition: Heidegger, Rilke, Hegel, Schiller

novel by Rainer Maria Rilke, which is conceptually connected with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s dialectical philosophy and Friedrich Schiller’s humanism. The present work is an interpretation of ... ). Keywords: mexican literature; german philosophy; comparative literature; constitution of the subject; nihilism; humanism Dios es el mundo. La verdad es siempre un contacto interior e inexplicable

Literature and Secularization in Latin American Modernismo: Celebrations, Homiletics and Porfirism in Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

the richness and complexity of Nájera’s spiritual and religious life as well as his uncompromised alignment with the political agenda of Porfirio Díaz’ regime. For that purpose, a small number of ... biblical exegesis or journalistic debates of political-religious content. Palbrs evcla : Literatura y secularización; Modernismo; Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera; cuaresmas; porfiriato. KorDeyws : Literature and

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Global Dissemination of Classical Learning

, Chicago, 2021. form of dedicated conferences, journals, companions and monographs.6 Yet most of those scholarly discourses have focussed on socio-economic, demographic and sometimes political developments ... comparative examination of the different political systems across the entire premodern world as well as of the surviving evidence of rhetorical traditions and the extent to which dissent and criticism towards

Por un cigarro… News of a Collective Novel in the Magazine Cómico (1898)

circumstance that took advantage of anonymity to portray the political and cultural tensions between writers and reporters at the end of the 19th century in Mexico.Keywords : Short novel; literary press

Ronald Dworkin’s Legal Non-Positivism: Main Characteristics and its Confrontation with Legal Positivism of the Twentieth Century (H.L.A. Hart)

. The Connection between Law and Political Morality 113 VI. Dworkin and his Position on Fundamental Rights 114 VII. Conclusion 116 I. Dworkin’s Legal Model It is important that the ... conceptual approach, but also with a normative approach.5 The Dworkinian model constitutes the presentation of a very particular perspective of law -the American law-, which is supported by political

Big Tech Platforms, Democracy and the Law: Global Problems, Legal Perspectives and the Mexican Experience

how and to what extent voters learn from a variety of media sources including newspapers, TV, Radio, internet and so forth. In that regard, the media reinforces political interest and voting intentions ... . It cannot be reasonably challenged that citizens do use and engage with the media to learn about issues and topics relevant to the political arena, such as candidates’ traits, proposals, or careers.5

Reflexivity and Rupture: Emancipation in Socialist and Democratic thought

Based on a critique from both political and theoretical perspectives within the socialist tradition regarding models of social change, placing “revolution” opposite to “reform”, an assessment is made ... a rational basis for political action, but as a unifying force pushing towards political change. II. The Meaning of Political Emancipation in Marxism In German philosophy, the concept of

Criminals and enemies? The drug trafficker in Mexico's Political Imaginary

; derecho; enemigo; criminal; narcocorrido; imaginario TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. The Criminal and the Enemy in the Political Imaginary III. The Criminal and the Enemy in Official ... study aims to explore the impact of the Felipe Calderón Administration's "war on drugs" on the Mexican legal and political imaginary. I address these discourses borrowing from Paul Kahn's exploration of

Criminals and enemies? The drug trafficker in Mexico's Political Imaginary

; derecho; enemigo; criminal; narcocorrido; imaginario TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. The Criminal and the Enemy in the Political Imaginary III. The Criminal and the Enemy in Official ... study aims to explore the impact of the Felipe Calderón Administration's "war on drugs" on the Mexican legal and political imaginary. I address these discourses borrowing from Paul Kahn's exploration of

Who We Are and What We Owe: Reading Marisela Treviño Orta’s Woman on Fire as a Latine/x Antigone-Story

. Initially, Woman on Fire’s protagonist and supposed Antigone, Juanita, has a clear answer to these questions: no. As a result, the play becomes not an ethical and political drama instigated by an Antigone’s ... ,’ in Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, ed. S. E. Wilmer, Oxford/New York, 2010, pp. 353–65 (357–65), T. Hawkins, ‘Dismantling the Anthropological Machine: Feliks Moriso

‘A Spaniard in essence: Seneca and the Spanish Volksgeist’

. This article shall explore how Seneca was conceived, and later re-appropriated and reshaped, as the embodiment of Spanishness, by intellectual and political circles of a nation in mid-reconfiguration ... Spartan values, also used as propaganda by the Metaxas’ regime in Greece.2 Although Spain might be considered as an old nation, since it became a political unity de facto in 1516 and de iure in 1716, it

1968: One Year in the Life of the Mexican Federal Judiciary

of federal judges in the judicial proceedings instituted against the students and other leftist political dissidents. The article concludes that the MFJ was subject to many constraints and limitations ... mostly young persons who had peacefully assembled for a political rally that afternoon.2 There is a burgeoning number of studies and testimonies on the ‘68 in Mexico,3 but little attention, if any, has