Movimientos sociales, estado y democracia en Colombia

El tema de reflexion en esa oportunidad fue el de las "Nuevas formas de participacion politica". Aqui se presentan tres aportes importantes para la discusion actual. En primer lugar, Medofilo Medina analiza los elementos que han configurado la participacion politica en Colombia. En segundo lugar, Fabio Velasquez y Ana Maria Jaramillo estudian el fenomeno en dos ciudades colombianas: Cali y Medellin, respectivamente. Mientras que en el primero el enfasis esta puesto en el acontecer historico nacional, los otros dos dirigen su mirada a la tradicion y a la experiencia politica reciente en el...

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...

CONTENIDO: La crisis permanente del derecho constitucional - El siglo XIX - El siglo XX - El estado de derecho en crisis ante los fenómenos de una sociedad de masas.