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Maternity as a political strategy in Ecuadorian feminism

This essay reflects on the particularities of Ecuadorian feminist discourse around the texts by Zoila Ugarte de Landívar (1864-1969) and Nela Martínez Espinosa (1912-2004). For this, it is analyzed the way in which maternity is handled in their journal articles from the concept of strategic essentialism. Analyzed discourses also reveals the complexity of an own Latin American...

Towards a cooperative infrastructure: political culture of solidarity in participatory budgeting

The purpose is to explore the political culture inherent in participatory budgeting. The quality of citizen participation is the existence of a political culture of solidarity, which produces a ... nuanced with results of semi-structured interviews. It is concluded that there is an interdependent link between political culture of solidarity (at the family level), organizational practices (at the

Political participation of the victims: Subjects of collective repair in Colombia

framework of the Colombian armed conflict; these organizations have positioned the role of victims in the peace process and in the construction of a country through dialogue and participation in political ... the framework of Law 1448. Keywords: collective reparation; political participation; conflict; victims; Colombia; peace A quienes persisten en vivir, y conocen la absurdidad de su existencia

The political culture of the Paraguayan left: Traits, tensions and redefinitions

This paper aims to analyze the political culture of the Paraguayan left around three aspects. On the one hand, it identifies the core and shared features of that political culture; on the other hand ... political culture; on the other hand, unraveling the most important areas of dispute within that culture and, finally, it points out some of the innovative features that can reconfigure the political culture

From the new political model to the first EU-Cuba Agreement

The negotiations of the European Union-Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement, starting in 2014, were the result of the new political model (NPM) created by both partners. This model

Insecurity and political power in the North Triangle of Central America

In this paper, from the theories of the logic of power and collective action, the relationship between insecurity and political power in the Northern Triangle of Central America is analyzed. It is ... Security, Evaluations of the State, and Policy Preferences. En E. J. Zechmeister (Ed.), The Political Culture of Democracy in the Americas 2014: Democratic Governance across 10 years of the AmericasBarometer

The political dimension of heritage: vindicating the social value of the railway in Chile between dictatorship and democracy (1973-2012)

This article analyzes the vindication of the social value of the railroad in Chile between the political contexts of the dictatorship (1973-1990) and democracy (1990-2012). The technological ... Artículos La dimensión política del patrimonio. Reivindicación del valor social del ferrocarril en Chile entre dictadura y democracia (1973-2012) The political dimension of heritage

Political parties and social movements in Latin America (2011- 2016): A configurational analysis

This work aims to answer the question: Which are the condition for the autonomization of social movements vis-à-vis political parties, in Latin America? Through a study of eigth cases, using a ... State intervention and the identification of political options. Keywords: political representation; social movements; autonomization; Latin America; QCA Introducción1 Desde mediados de la

Tout pour le peuple, rien par le peuple: a critic of Chantal Mouffe’s populism

Chantal Mouffe’s theoretical-political work can be read from two registers. On the one hand, her proposal for an agonist democracy, capable of shaking the ossification and lethargy that afflict our ... University Press. [ Links ] Vergara, C. (2020). Populism as plebeian politics: Inequality, domination, and popular empowerment. The Journal of Political Philosophy, 28(2), 22-246. [ Links ] 1Este

Digital technologies and regeneration democratic in Spanish and Mexican political parties

The political disaffection, the economic crisis, and digital technologies have transformed the political scene. As a consequence, from it different formulas are being constructed to shape popular ... political parties Gema Sánchez Medero*  * Doctora en Ciencias Políticas y de la Administración por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Profesora de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Quality of government, crime victimization and particularistic political participation in Latin America

Studies about the effects of victimization on political participation have focused on civic, partisan, and electoral participation, but have ignored particularistic forms of participation. In ... eighteen countries of Latin America by the Americas Barometer. The analyses show a positive relationship between victimization and particularistic political participation and that this relationship is

A 21st century State. State’s modernization speeches in Cambiemos’ era (Argentina 2015-2019)

in Argentina under its proposal to modernize it. Based on the analysis of press articles of national circulation newspapers and interviews with political officials disseminated by these media, we

Work and life culture with a sense of solidarity

This article analyzes the way in which the political subject in Latin America opens the way to a culture of life, without discrimination and with respect to historical-cultural diversity. The ... political culture of work, as an activity of self-realization. Associated free work that responds to the felt needs of the population, through the rational and efficient use of geophysical resources and

Book Review: Powell, F. (2017). The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State. Bristol: Policy Press.

draws on social policy, history and sociology, as well as media sources to take a well-balanced and engrossing look at the formation of the modern Irish welfare state. The Political Economy of the Irish ... the country?s post-revolutionary political landscape. Chapter one considers the case for social policy to respond reflexively to changing needs and demands in order to secure a universalist welfare

The impact of covid-19 on contemporary Latin American scenarios

This essay looks into the potential impact of covid-19 in Latin America on the economic, social, political and geopolitical dimensions. Firstly, it characterises the pre-pandemic regional situation ... , Universidad de la República (Uruguay) | | 2 Magíster en Economía Política Internacional por la London School of Economics and Political Science (Reino Unido). Profesor asistente, Facultad de Ciencias

The effect of political generations on electoral participation. The case of Chile, 1999-2013

effect of political generations on voter turnout. We show this effect in the context of compulsory voting and voluntary voting. By multivariate statistical analysis of pre-election polls from 1999 to 2013 ... note that compulsory voting age, political generation, ideological identification and even -in some cases- the socioeconomic status of respondents are robust predictors of participation. With voluntary

The dominant sectors in the postneoliberal Ecuador

private capital in public decision-making and the processes of social redistribution, weakened the political influence of those sectors, but not necessarily economic, especially those committed to ... political process in a relational perspective. Keywords: dominant sectors; capitalism; state; post-neoliberalism; corporatism; elites Introducción La preocupación académica por los sectores

The Socrates Café: Community Philosophy as an empowering tool in a day care centre for older people

participant observation and interviews with participants and organisers, the paper will examine the purposes, benefits and use of community philosophy as an empowering tool. Social justice demands that we seek

Partidos políticos y movimientos sociales en América Latina (2011-2016): un análisis configuracional

This work aims to answer the question: Which are the condition for the autonomization of social movements vis-à-vis political parties, in Latin America? Through a study of eigth cases, using a ... State intervention and the identification of political options. Keywords: political representation; social movements; autonomization; Latin America; QCA Introducción1 Desde mediados de la

Authoritarianism. History and problems of a fundamental contemporary concept

Since it was used by Juan Linz to characterize the franquismo political experience, authoritarianism has become a specialized and fundamental concept of comparative politics. Later used in Latin ... political experiences, the term has not ceased to build a conceptual history linked to various political regimes arising (or not) from coups of state and/or military dictatorships. Currently, it reappears