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In order to answer this question, we need to clarify what it refers to. We have to find out if ?globalization? can semantically be related to ideology. Ideology denotes the entirety of our personal judgments, ideas and views based on knowledge, experience and sensation by which we perceive and interpret the world, our position in it and the whole society. If we use an enlightened perspective we consider ideology as a kind of prejudice by which reason is dominated. Why is this relevant for the context of globalization? Generally speaking, globalization stands for the process of ongoing international interconnection and progress in nearly all areas of life, such as e.g. in economy, politics, culture and communication. This view involves the implicit experience of change that affects not only our environment, our society and its institutions but also the national states and their citizens. The environment and its resources are a pre-requisite for globalization. Due to the process of constant market liberalization the resources are changed and ultimately destroyed. In this paper we will discuss as whether political measures have the power of exerting any control upon this dialectic mechanism.

This paper intends to shed new light on the causes of split-ticket voting in concurrent multi-level national & regional elections held under PR electoral rules. Up to now, differences in electoral outcomes shown in Spanish concurrent elections have been understood as a product of the mechanisms associated to second order elections. Evidence against this interpretation is presented, & alternative explanations from the international literature are tested. We find that in one hand Andalusian intrablock & regionalist ticketsplitters weight their national & regional electoral ch9ices in a different manner: while in the national arena ideology is the main predictor of the electoral behavior, in the regional arena ticket-splitters tend to cross their ideological preferences in order to issue their votes based on regional executive performance or valuation of locally rooted leaders. In the other hand interblocks ticket-splitters seem to be ideologically balancing their votes. Tables, Graphs, Appendixes, References. Adapted from the source document.

Differences in causal attributions about poverty in less development countries among Nicaraguan & Spanish university students of Psychology were analyzed depending on their ideology & political action (for example, electoral participation, being a membership of a political group or NGO). Data were collect by means of an auto-applied questionnaire. Results show differences among Spanish & Nicaraguan students in attributions about causes for poverty in less development countries considering the mentioned variables, although those attributions changed in both groups depending on the situation: actors (people who live in a less development country) or observers (peoples who live in a development country). Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.

This paper, which is divided in four parts, starts by considering the symbolism inherent to the election of the first Afro-American President, a sign of the democratic vitality of the United States & of the exceptionable capacity of its political & constitutional system to welcome social, philosophical & ideological transformations. We will then consider Obama's candidacy, which was able to reconcile modern strategies & a message rooted in the classical American political tradition. The third chapter includes an analysis of the potential implications of Obama's triumph in the American electoral dynamics, followed by a conclusion where we briefly describe the main challenges that his Administration will meet, especially in domestic politics. Adapted from the source document.

This paper focuses on the analysis of public opinion towards European integration in Greece, Portugal & Spain, where the citizen's positive evaluations of Europe have been remarkable. In this sense, this article analyses how public attitudes towards Europe have been structured in this countries. Secondly, it examines the determining factors of the positive attitudes & shows the kind of variables that are basic to understand the differences between Greeks, Spaniards & Portugueses as well as the traditional euro-optimism toward European integration of these Southern countries. The findings show the relevance of identities & the different impacts of party cues & ideology in the attitudes of support to European integration. Tables, Graphs, Appendixes, References. Adapted from the source document.