PARTNERSHIP, SOCIOCULTURAL INFORMATION AND STIMULATION IN SMALL BRAZILIAN MUNICIPALITIES: CONCRETE EXAMPLES

The text came from the UNESP-Project in Partnership with the Public Administration: City of Echaporã ‖, a multidisciplinary project, interdepartmental and that results from a term partnership signed between the State University / Campus Marilia, the Regional Office of Articulation Planning and the Municipality of Echaporã.Given the serious social problems diagnosed in this county Administrative Region of Marilia, somaramse forces and, since April 2002, Echaporã account with the performance of a design matrix that involves the community in six (6) subprojects, among which a which emphasizes the dissemination of information (the public library as a center of information and knowledge irradiator for urban and rural areas, seeking to enter the Society daInformação). By their nature, the project-matrix is considered open and can accommodate new subprojects, where they concern the problems identified in the initial diagnosis. For its validity, each subproject has its own methodology, some innovative and will be subject to further systematization and dissemination, however, after a few months of deployment, the results show the correctness of community involvement (being representative) in all discussions and steps of research, and activities developed, widely disseminated to the target audience. The membership of the community, the leaders and the authorities can be considered a good barometer of the actions carried out in Echaporã and evidence of change in information culture that is already noticeable in the city, setting the socio-cultural dynamics of the same, in terms a new public policy to be strengthened with the participation of specialists in this specific area, in direct work with local managers, in this case, specific examples relating to the strength of information in the process of change in small municipalities.

Estado Constitucional de Derecho y Democracia: ¿conceptos antagónicos?: revisando Centroamérica

El texto explora las concepciones sobre democracia y Estado Constitucional de Derecho. Intenta explicar las posibles diferencias entre ambas expresiones y sus puntos de encuentro. Recurre tanto a doctrina de ciencia política como de derecho constitucional.Se sostiene la conveniencia científica, desde una perspectiva también histórica, de hablar de estado constitucional de derecho entendido como una categoría más exacta de lo que debe entenderse como forma de acceder al poder y proteger los derechos fundamentales.Finalmente, se hace un análisis de la situación actual de Centroamérica y se relaciona aquella con la existencia real de estados constitucionales de derecho en la región. The article analyzes on the concepts about democracy and rule of constitutional law. It aims to explain the  possible differences and coincidences between these notions throughout the political sciences and constitutional law. From an historic view, it points out to the scientific convenience and correctness of the term ‘constitutional rule of law’, understood as a more precise category of what it must be defined as a means to access the power and the protection of fundamental rights.Finally, the article examines on the current situation of the Central American region emphasizing on whether these states embrace a true constitutional rule of law.