Procesos genocidas

Democracy may be the most important and urgent theme to debate these days. After two decades of democratic regime in Latin America, this book urges the readers to ponder on the strengths, achievements and challenges of our democracies and search for the path that will strengthen them. Thoughts and possible solutions by renowned analysts and experts on various disciplines are compiled in these twenty-seven essays by Felipe Gonz?lez, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and C?sar Gav?ria among others.

El espacio público urbano se ha convertido recientemente en objeto de intervención de la acción pública a través de diversos programas que buscan rescatar la infraestructura física y social de la ciudad mediante su embellecimiento. A partir de los casos del rescate del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México y del centro histórico de Coyoacán, este libro explica el encuentro entre dos universos: por un lado, la idealización del espacio público y, por otro, las tensiones generadas al aterrizar dichas concepciones.

Su experiencia política, conjugada con su formación académica, confieren a los textos que conforman este libro, una mirada crítica de la sociedad chilena y su modelo neoliberal heredado de la dictadura.

Parties are the major actors of political representation in democracies. They have been acknowledged repeatedly as the critical link between voters, representatives and guarantors of democratic governance. Without them, a democracy can hardly be said to exist because they are the principal links between government and society. However, parties can lose their representative capacity, and be challenged by disaffected electorates that pursue other alternatives for political involvement. This book focuses upon the electoral weakening of Latin America's traditional parties. These parties dominated ...