The love of one’s country
The author shows how the concept of “patria” or native country, can be utilized as a political symbol that evokes an excessive plan, different from constitutionalism, that looks not only to transform citizens’ behaviour, but also its souls and beliefs.
Read MoreWhat remains of the party system?
As a result of the elections, the two traditional parties will continue to dominate Colombian politics. A permanent transformation of the party system should come from the left.
Read MoreGlobalization-Non-governmental Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives (David Clark,ed. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006)
Processes of economic globalization underway since the early 1970s pose new regulatory dilemmas. The mismatch between global economic processes, on the one hand, and national regulations, on the other, creates what Sassen has aptly called a “regulatory fracture”, stemming from the fact that ?economic processes diverge from the model for which extant regulations were designed? (Sassen 1998: 155). Debates about how to deal with such a regulatory fracture are today at the forefront of law and society research on globalization and have given rise to a host of regulatory experiments around the world. A growing number of sociolegal analyses and institutional experiments emphasize non-governmental approaches to regulation, that is, forms of economic and political coordination in which private organizations ?from corporations to civic associations? take on regulatory tasks that were hitherto reserved to the state. From this perspective, forms of global governance have the potential to solve some of the problems faced by national governments in the global economy.
Read MoreAn uncertain future
We hope that the international situation will be favorable, that the mafias receive the weight of justice and that the control agencies worry more about complying with the Constitution than about favoring Uribe.
Read MoreA State without Justices
Mauricio García Villegas thinks without a doubt, that the police is essential in the task of territory recovery. But is it sufficient?
Read MoreThe prosperity of breach
Mauricio García Villegas analyzes the phenomenon of the breach in Colombia.
Read MoreThe drama of the elections in Peru
The elections in Peru emphasize the lack of party system and the importance of Colombian political reform of 2003, which pursues to fortify and democratize the political parties.
Read MoreIt is sufficient to simply include a woman on the list?
Helena Alviar and Isabel Cristina Jaramillo consider that the rank of the themes should be expanded on which the candidates of the Supreme Court of Justice are evaluated.
Read MoreAnd the women of the Court?
César Rodríguez criticizes the absence of a woman in the proposed shortlist by the Supreme Court to choose the new Judge of the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreWhat one must look at
Danilo Rojas invites citizens to scrutinize the programs of the government proposed by the candidates, not only the superficial aspects of their campaign, before placing their vote.
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