Homero en China y otras extravagancias

Parties are the major actors of political representation in democracies. They have been acknowledged repeatedly as the critical link between voters, representatives and guarantors of democratic governance. Without them, a democracy can hardly be said to exist because they are the principal links between government and society. However, parties can lose their representative capacity, and be challenged by disaffected electorates that pursue other alternatives for political involvement. This book focuses upon the electoral weakening of Latin America's traditional parties. These parties dominated ...

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The Mirage is an expression of Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi’s perspective that the struggle in which many Arab and Muslim countries are currently engaged against extremist groups and organizations is not limited to the realm of military and security operations; it is also an extended war of an essentially intellectual nature that requires long-term planning, which is no less important – indeed, perhaps even more so – than planning in military and security terms. Academic scholarship plays a vital role in protecting the security of nations and societies via rigorous analysis of challenges...

La actuación de las Administraciones Públicas, que por mandato constitucional, solo debe estar dirigida a servir el interés general, no puede seguir lastrada por la presencia de una percepción social generalizada de corrupción en la esfera de la gestión de los servicios públicos. Es necesario luchar contra el problema de la corrupción desde todos los ámbitos posibles, pero particularmente desde la propias Administraciones Públicas, y no solo desde la manifestación de un compromiso de erradicación de este fenómeno, sino que es necesario que éstas se impliquen de forma real y...