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This article analyses key positions of the critique of the social-democratic economic model. The critique is associated with the excessive role of the state, with planning, with increasing obstacles in the way of conducting business, and with the ineffectiveness of the educational system. Using as an example the functioning of the Scandinavian economic system, which in recent decades has made significant advances in constructing a just and resilient society of universal well-being, the author presents counter-arguments in defence of the effectiveness of socialdemocratic methods of administering the economic system. The work concludes that when subjected to deeper analysis, the critique of the social-democratic model in many cases lacks objectivity, while the results of the functioning of this system have been extremely positive. The successes of the social-democratic model in the Scandinavian countries have been particularly evident in the qualitative parameters of the development of society (the development of human potential, the quality and scope of medical and educational services, and the care shown by the economic system for the environment).

This paper is a critical analysis of a recent case decided by the Brazilian Constitutional Court, which can be considered as paradigmatic of the current approach of Brazilian case law with reference to constitutional interpretation. The case regards the unconstitutionality of a statute provision which allowed the enforcement of penalties pending a second instance appeal and therefore before res judicata. This analysis aims at discussing the concept of constitutional provisions and legal interpretation theory as well as the legal arguments applied in these cases. The approach endorsed by the Court will be argued from both a theoretical point of view and a political standpoint, in order to outline its inadequacy and conflict with the Rule of Law doctrine.

This paper is a critical analysis of a recent case decided by the Brazilian Constitutional Court, which can be considered as paradigmatic of the current approach of Brazilian case law with reference to constitutional interpretation. The case regards the unconstitutionality of a statute provision which allowed the enforcement of penalties pending a second instance appeal and therefore before res judicata. This analysis aims at discussing the concept of constitutional provisions and legal interpretation theory as well as the legal arguments applied in these cases. The approach endorsed by the Court will be argued from both a theoretical point of view and a political standpoint, in order to outline its inadequacy and conflict with the Rule of Law doctrine.

The word Plattenbau in Germany today has strong associations to the former East German regime. Throughout the 1970s until the state's collapse in 1990, hundreds of thousands of prefabricated panel apartments were erected annually throughout the GDR as part of state policy to "solve the housing question by the year 1990". However, prefabricated panel construction has existed since the early 1900s. In order to appropriately assess the role that these buildings could potentially play in society today, it is essential to understanding the turbulent reception of prefabricated domestic architecture throughout history. Plattenbau construction methods have always been linked to social, political, economic, and aesthetic issues, and for this reason have remained historically stuck between condemnation and fascination

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Citing/Siting Africa in the Indian Postcolonial Imagination -- Chapter 1. "Every Secret Thing"? Racial Politics in Ansuyah R. Singh's -- Chapter 2. Race and the Politics of Position: Above and Below in Frank -- Chapter 3. Fictions of Postcolonial Development: Race, Intimacy and Afro-Asian Solidarity in Chanakya Sen's -- Chapter 4. Hands and Feet: Phyllis Naidoo's Impressions of Anti-apartheid History (2002 - 2006) -- Epilogue -- Index