Suchergebnisse

In the context of the processes of ratification of European Union Treaties, the Spanish Constitutional Court has issued two "Declaraciones" on the constitutionality of the Maastricht Treaty and the Constitutional Treaty. The two showed different outcomes: the first case was declared unconstitutional, while the second one was declared constitutional. Behaviorist approaches, which explain judicial behaviour as a result of power struggles between partisan blocks within the institution cannot explain cases like ours, in which the preferences of the main political actors converged. The article shows that an argument based in the institutional constraints defined by the procedures of constitutional amendment applicable to each case offers a better explanation of the different outcomes. Adapted from the source document.

La actual situacion de crisis economica ha avivado el debate sobre la reforma del modelo territorial espanol y la mejora de la gestion de los servicios publicos locales. Un debate que se ha abordado en una cuestionada modificacion legislativa que entrara en vigor en enero de 2014(1), y que potencia la gestion supramunicipal reforzando el papel de las diputaciones. En este contexto surge nuevamente la discusion en torno a las areas metropolitanas y su forma de gestion. Las areas metropolitanas se han convertido en 'arenas politicas' en donde se toman decisiones sobre aspectos fundamentales para la vida de los ciudadanos, con grandes gastos publicos, pero que permanecen alejadas de los mismos. Los casos de Barcelona y Vigo nos serviran para analizar las variables que condicionan el exito de la institutionalizacion de las areas metropolitanas y su gestion de los servicios publicos The current economic crisis has spurred a debate on the reform of the Spanish territorial model and the improvement of the management of local public services. A debate that will attempt to be resolved in a legislative amendment that power the supramunicipal management by strengthening the role of the councils. In this context arises again the debate around the metropolitan areas and their management. Metropolitan areas have become 'political arena' where decisions are made on fundamental aspects for the life of the citizens, with heavy public expenditure, but who remain away from those. The cases of Barcelona and Vigo will help us to analyse the variables that determine the success of the institutionalization of metropolitan areas and the management of public services. Adapted from the source document.

Examines the struggles of EZLN, the Zapatista National Liberation Movement, against injustices, focusing on indigenous communities, mestization, and constitutional amendments aimed at the enlargement of cultural and political rights. Summary in English.

The deliberative democracy bases its expectations of results in interactions of communication of a normative type lessening the relations of power and domination that exist in politics. It is interesting to observe how a deliberation is made on governmental decision making, through case studies. In this frame, the article analyzes the confrontation of two factual powers (the Group for a Better Country and the transnational pharmaceuticals), the lobbying, the use of political resources, the role of the state and the final corollary in the deliberation for the public decision making: the modification of the article 77 of the Law of Industrial Property. Adapted from the source document.