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Freedom of Religion or Belief, or FoRB, provides for autonomy of religious communities, including freedom to organise themselves, to train their leadership, and to educate their members, without government interference. Tensions between the tenets of the religious community and the wider society are inevitable. In this article, we justify religious autonomy through three lenses: transactional, traditional FoRB, and minorities. If people are free to join and leave the community, religious autonomy should prevail. We then analyse European cases that illustrate the tension between religious autonomy and non-discrimination.

The proposed paper will analyze the democratic political systems of Central American countries. After an initial theoretical reflection about the concepts of representation and representativeness in Central America, the paper will discuss the "perliementenretion" (or parliamentary tendencies) of the presidential systems of this subcontinent leading to an increasing compatibility between executive and legislative powers. The next section will make a more in depth comparative analysis of Central American perliements, focusing on the institutional position of the legislative assemblies and will refer to variables as political control mechanisms, agenda setting powers, minority rights and the effectiveness of the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition. Finally the paper will present a comprehensive mapping of the veto players in the political systems in these Central American countries.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 118, 2008: 563-586 ; El presente ensayo analizará los sistemas políticos democráticos de los países centroamericanos. Después de hacer una reflexión teórica inicial acerca de los conceptos de representación y representatividad en el área, se discutirá la "parlamentación" (o las tendencias parlamentarias de los sistemas presidenciales del subcontinente, los cuales conducen a una creciente compatibilidad entre los poderes ejecutivos y legislativos. La siguiente sección hará un análisis más en profundidad de los parlamentos centroamericanos, enfocándose en la posición institucional de las asambleas legislativas y se referirá a variables tales como los mecanismos de control político, los poderes que crean las agendas, los derechos de las minorías y la afectividad de la oposición parlamentaria y extraparlamentaria. Finalmente, el texto presentará un mapeo exhaustivo de los actores que utilizaran el veto en los sistemas políticos centroamericanos.Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 118, 2008: 563-586