From social to political. New forms of mobilization and democratization. Conference proceedings

In the recent evolution of contemporary social movements three phases can be identified. The first phase is marked by the labour movement and the systemic importance attributed to the labour conflict in industrial societies. This conflict has been interpreted as a consequence of the shortcoming of social integration mechanisms by Emile Durkheim, as a rational conflict by entrepreneurs’ and workers’ interests by Max Wener, and as a central class struggle for the transformation of society by Karl Marx. The second phase in this development was led by the new social movements of the post-industrial society of the 1960s and 1970s’ students, women and environmentalist movements. Two new analytical perspectives have explained these movements’ meaning and actions. Resource mobilization theory (McAdam and Tilly) has focuses on rational attitudes and conflicts. Actionalist sociology, in turn, has identified the new protagonists of social conflicts that replaced the labour movement in postindustrial societies. The third phase emerges in a world characterized by the ascendance of markets, the increasingly prominent role of financial capital flows, the closure of communities, and fundamentalism. In this context, human rights and pro-democratization movements constitute alternatives to global domination and the systemic conditioning of individual and groups.

Un episodio de “estilización” de la política antirrepublicana: la fiesta de San Francisco Javier de 1931 en Pamplona

[ES] Estudio de caso (Fiesta de S. Francisco en Pamplona, Navarra) del modo en que la derecha conservadora española (Bloque de Derechas) y los radicales (carlistas) emplearon densos elementos identificadores (“identidad”) de lo local (Navarra-España) y católica para generar actitudes y adhesiones políticas antirrepublicanas.

Incorporating American Dreams into Australian Stories: Political Erasure and cultural transference in film adaptations of Australian Literary Classics

Eterio Pajares, Raquel Merino y José Miguel Santamaría (eds.)

Climate Change, Responsibilities, and Defeatism and Complacency

16 p.

Economic Efficiency, Environmental Effectiveness and Political Feasibility of Energy Efficiency Rebates: The Case of the Spanish Energy Efficiency 'Renove' Plan

29 p.

Decarbonising urban transportation

18 p.

ATTITUDES TOWARDS BILINGUALISM AND BASQUE IN RIOJA ALAVESA

Ikerketa honetan, aspalditik euskara mintza-hizkuntza izan ez duen komunitate batean ¿Arabako Errioxan¿ euskara biziberritzeko politikek ekarri dituzten ondorioetako batzuk aztertu dira. Ikerketa honen aztergai nagusia elebitasunaren eta euskararen inguruko jarrerak dira. Jarrera orokorrak jasotzeaz gain, hizkuntza-ereduek, gaitasunarekin eta erabilerarekin lotutako zenbait hizkuntza-aldagaik eta aldagai psikosozial batzuek ¿bizindarra, identitatea, euskal hiztunekiko harremana¿ jarrerekin duten erlazioa aztertu da.Metodo kualitatiboak eta kuantitatiboak baliatu dira ikerketa honetan. Elkarrizketen eta behaketaren bidez, Arabako Errioxako bizilagunen ikuspegiak atzeman nahi izan dira. Galdesortak erabili ziren, berriz, eskualdeko ikasleen datuak biltzeko.Azterlanaren alderdi berritzaile bat da jarrerek denboran zehar duten bilakaeran sakontzen duela. Ikerketa bi fasetan egin da, zortzi urteko denbora-tarteaz (2001ean eta 2009an). Lehen fasean, analisi kualitatiboak eta kuantitatiboak egin ziren ikerketaren testuinguru zabala atzemate aldera. Bigarren fasean analisi kuantitatiboak soilik egin ziren, eta fase bakoitzean neur-tresna bera erabili zen, konparaketa erraztearren.Ikerlan honen ondorio nagusietako bat da ikasleek oro har jarrera positiboak dituztela, hala elebitasunarekiko nola euskararekiko. Ikasleek era bertsuan erantzun zuten 2001ean eta 2009an, nahiz eta euskararen aldeko jarrerak apalxeagoak ziren 2009an. Ereduei dagokienez, jarrera positiboenak D ereduko ikasleek dituzte, eta epelenak A eredukoek. Oro har emaitzek erakusten dute korrelazioa dagoela aztertutako aldagai linguistiko zein psikosozialen eta jarreren artean. Jarrerekin korrelazio indartsua dute, besteak beste, euskara erabiltzeko nahiak eta identitateari lotutako aldagaiek.

Political Institutions, Technology and Growth: a dynamic panel approach

This paper investigates whether the effect of political institutions on sectoral economic performance is determined by the level of technological development of industries. Building on previous studies on the linkages among political institutions, technology and economic growth, we employ the dynamic panel Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator for a sample of 4,134 country-industries from 61 industries and 89 countries over the 1990-2010 period. Our main findings suggest that changes of political institutions towards higher levels of democracy, political rights and civil liberties enhance economic growth in technologically developed industries. On the contrary, the same institutional changes might retard economic growth of those industries that are below a technological development threshold. Overall, these results give evidence of a technologically conditioned nature of political institutions to be growth-promoting.