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Technische Universität Dresden Course: Latin American Political Development Instructor: Silvia Inclán Summer 2009 Mexico: The old one-party dominant regime becomes a democracy – Political and Social Trends towards Democracy in view of the Presidential Elections of 2000 04.09.2009 Josephine Wragge 2nd Semester International Relations Matrikel.No: 3521502 E-mail: JosiW@gmx.de Table of Contents 1. Introduction – perceptions of the PRI defeat in 2000…………………………………………….3 2. The hegemony of

Public Services Reform, Retrenchment and Charity Finance Executive Summary The political and wider public debates over the impact on charitable/ voluntary organisations and social enterprises of the far-reaching costreduction programmes unleashed by public sector organisations continue to intensify. There remains uncertainty as to future contract and grant funding and historically under-funded areas outside Councils’ and PCTs’ fields of statutory responsibility are subject to particular pressure

Latin American Macroeconomics Overview Professor: Javier Garcia-Cicco Lecture 1: • Outline of the course. • Some stylized facts about Latin America. • Pro-cyclicality • Terms of Trade and the curse of natural resources. LATAM MACRO - Lecture 1 1 Outline of the Course • Lecture 1: Stylized facts about Latin America. The curse of natural resources • Lecture 2: Fear of floating. Dollarisation. Sudden stops. Default risk. • Lecture 3: Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Rules. Recent crisis

The political realism approach by the Machiavellian thought “The Prince” is one of the most important books of all the modern political thought. The authors who, after Machiavelli, undertook to reflect on the power are turned towards this work, so, in particular, criticizing the conclusions of them. The Prince states indeed on the policy of the judgments so morally inadmissible that the term of “Machiavellism” was forged in order to qualify them and to denounce them. The political philosophy

without any doubt the largest city in England, and one of the biggest in Europe. It had a great influence on other European countries or cities. At this time, London meant a lot in terms of culture in Europe. Moreover, since the 15th century, the British capital was also a great European centre in terms of trade and later in terms of industry too. For instance, Great Britain was the first European country to undergo the industrial revolution in the 18th century. In the 16th century, London was a dangerous

International Political Sociology (2009) 3, 378–397 Governing Diasporas1 Francesco Ragazzi Sciences Po (Paris) and Northwestern University (Chicago) The study of migration in general and in IR in particular has generally meant the study of immigration. Yet, sending states increasingly manage and govern numerically impressive ‘‘diasporas’’ abroad. This article assesses the importance of the government of emigrants and diasporas, and reviews the meager theoretical literature on the topic. It then

What is Sovereignty?* Alain de Benoist The concept of sovereignty is one of the most complex in political science, with many definitions, some totally contradictory.1 Usually, sovereignty is defined in one of two ways. The first definition applies to supreme public power, which has the right and, in theory, the capacity to impose its authority in the last instance. The second definition refers to the holder of legitimate power, who is recognized to have authority. When national sovereignty is

welcoming to endogenous innovation and externally driven changes (Le Galès, 2002, Kooiman, 2003, Loughlin, 2009). The decline of the state lies at the heart of the otherwise distinct literatures on rescaling, multi-level governance and international political economy (Cole and Palmer, 2008; Faure and Muller, 2005). Rather than a weakening of the state, per se, some argue that the type of state activity has changed (Levy, 2006). Arguably, states can be more effective as regulators than they ever were as

class emerged. This was combined with the growth of the 'bourgeoisie', the free dwellers in the peculiar towns and cities of northern Europe. Having subtly interwoven some of the religious, economic and social factors, Weber does not omit the political and legal dimension. He argues that 'the State, in the sense of the rational state has existed only in the western world' (1961: 250). He contrasts this western state with the charismatic, patrimonial and other traditional systems of government

of the arguments for the programme of nationalisation in the UK. It is one of many suggested for the phenomena, which occurred in the late 40’s, and accounted for over 80% of the transfer of private industry to public ownership. This particular political argument centres on the idea that “Private ownership of productive assets creates a concentration of power over resources which is intolerable in a democracy” (Griffith & Wall 98) With this in mind, nationalised industries came to produce 9%