Luces y sombras en la vigencia y políticas de un partido provincial argentino : El Movimiento Popular Neuquino, 1983- 2010

El estudio se centra en el análisis del partido provincial de Neuquén, en el sistema político provincial y en la relación del entramado con la sociedad en las últimas décadas. La intención es explicar los momentos y la acción de los dirigentes políticos que tuvieron incidencia fundamental en la fuerza partidaria, en el estado provincial, su relación con la sociedad y con el Estado Nacional. Sin detenernos en los clivajes históricos que influyeron en la formación del MPN, hechos que motivaron el surgimiento de esta fuerza de inserción geográfica restringida a la provincia de origen, haremos mención a los mismos, al impacto que sufrió el peronismo local ante la emergencia y confluencia de los 'convocados' a constituir el Movimiento Popular Neuquino. Ese impacto adquirió una nueva dimensión en el contexto del 1973, año en que el Frejuli fue derrotado en Neuquén por el emepenismo, momento en que se constituyó en hegemónico en el sistema político neuquino; aunque adquirió nuevas fuerzas, propuestas, figuras y también surgieron tensiones a partir del regreso a la democracia

Luces y sombras en la vigencia y políticas de un partido provincial argentino : El Movimiento Popular Neuquino, 1983- 2010

El estudio se centra en el análisis del partido provincial de Neuquén, en el sistema político provincial y en la relación del entramado con la sociedad en las últimas décadas. La intención es explicar los momentos y la acción de los dirigentes políticos que tuvieron incidencia fundamental en la fuerza partidaria, en el estado provincial, su relación con la sociedad y con el Estado Nacional. Sin detenernos en los clivajes históricos que influyeron en la formación del MPN, hechos que motivaron el surgimiento de esta fuerza de inserción geográfica restringida a la provincia de origen, haremos mención a los mismos, al impacto que sufrió el peronismo local ante la emergencia y confluencia de los 'convocados' a constituir el Movimiento Popular Neuquino. Ese impacto adquirió una nueva dimensión en el contexto del 1973, año en que el Frejuli fue derrotado en Neuquén por el emepenismo, momento en que se constituyó en hegemónico en el sistema político neuquino; aunque adquirió nuevas fuerzas, propuestas, figuras y también surgieron tensiones a partir del regreso a la democracia

Luces y sombras en la vigencia y políticas de un partido provincial argentino : El Movimiento Popular Neuquino, 1983- 2010

El estudio se centra en el análisis del partido provincial de Neuquén, en el sistema político provincial y en la relación del entramado con la sociedad en las últimas décadas. La intención es explicar los momentos y la acción de los dirigentes políticos que tuvieron incidencia fundamental en la fuerza partidaria, en el estado provincial, su relación con la sociedad y con el Estado Nacional. Sin detenernos en los clivajes históricos que influyeron en la formación del MPN, hechos que motivaron el surgimiento de esta fuerza de inserción geográfica restringida a la provincia de origen, haremos mención a los mismos, al impacto que sufrió el peronismo local ante la emergencia y confluencia de los 'convocados' a constituir el Movimiento Popular Neuquino. Ese impacto adquirió una nueva dimensión en el contexto del 1973, año en que el Frejuli fue derrotado en Neuquén por el emepenismo, momento en que se constituyó en hegemónico en el sistema político neuquino; aunque adquirió nuevas fuerzas, propuestas, figuras y también surgieron tensiones a partir del regreso a la democracia

Shaping Tolerant Attitudes towards Immigrants: The Role of Welfare State Expenditures

This article contributes to the ongoing discussion on how tolerance may be fostered in Western European countries and to the question of how contextual factors such as welfare state expenditures may contribute to this formation. Tolerance is understood as a basic democratic principle that helps civil societies cope with rising levels of diversity stemming from increased immigration and individualism. Within the tolerance literature it is commonly agreed upon that a comprehensive welfare state is capable of bridging class divides and overcoming social categorization. However, over the past decades European welfare states experienced an ongoing influx of immigrants, challenging their general purpose and increasing notions of ‘welfare chauvinism’. Drawing on insights from both tolerance and welfare state solidarity literature, we implement hierarchical analyses based on Eurobarometer data to assess the potential influence of welfare state universalism on political and social tolerance in 15 Western European countries. Moreover, we demonstrate that this relationship is highly conditional on the degree of ethnic heterogeneity within a country.

Birth, Development and Progressive Institutionalization of the Ombudsman in the Russian Legal and Political System

One of the current trends in governance and legal development in Russia is aimed at establishing a modern, efficient and internationally harmonised system of safeguards of human rights and civil liberties. A fairly recent addition to this system has been the institution of ombudsman as a public authority specialised in promoting and protecting human rights and civil liberties. The introduction of this institution as well as its formalisation at the constitutional and legislative levels has been increasingly relevant and important, as it raises the dealings between the state and the individual to a new level. As an independent public institution resolving conflicts between citizens and government authorities, the ombudsman makes steps, within the scope of his jurisdiction, to restitute individual rights, and helps to enhance the reputation of government. The present work describes and assesses the birth, development and institutionalization process of the Ombudsman Office in the Russian Federation, at federal and regional levels, with a particular emphasis on the role of international references and cooperation for institution building. Ombudsmen have done a magnificent job in demonstrating value with the resolution of individual and systemic complaints; subsequent improvements to government; and economic savings by mitigating litigation costs.

Signals and signs in the nervous system: The dynamic anatomy of electrical activity is probably information-rich

The dichotomy between two groups of workers on neuroelectrical activity is retarding progress. To study the interrelations between neuronal unit spike activity and compound field potentials of cell populations is both unfashionable and technically challenging. Neither of the mutual disparagements is justified: that spikes are to higher functions as the alphabet is to Shakespeare and that slow field potentials are irrelevant epiphenomena. Spikes are not the basis of the neural code but of multiple codes that coexist with nonspike codes. Field potentials are mainly information-rich signs of underlying processes, but sometimes they are also signals for neighboring cells, that is, they exert influence. This paper concerns opportunities for new research with many channels of wide-band (spike and slow wave) recording. A wealth of structure in time and three-dimensional space is different at each scale—micro-, meso-, and macroactivity. The depth of our ignorance is emphasized to underline the opportunities for uncovering new principles. We cannot currently estimate the relative importance of spikes and synaptic communication vs. extrasynaptic graded signals. In spite of a preponderance of literature on the former, we must consider the latter as probably important. We are in a primitive stage of looking at the time series of wide-band voltages in the compound, local field, potentials and of choosing descriptors that discriminate appropriately among brain loci, states (functions), stages (ontogeny, senescence), and taxa (evolution). This is not surprising, since the brains in higher species are surely the most complex systems known. They must be the greatest reservoir of new discoveries in nature. The complexity should not deter us, but a dose of humility can stimulate the flow of imaginative juices.

Strategic Voting in Proportional Systems: The Case of Finland. IHS Political Science Series No. 138, September 2014

Voters try to avoid wasting their votes even in PR systems. In this paper we make a case that this type of strategic voting can be observed and predicted even in PR systems. Contrary to the literature we do not see weak institutional incentive structures as indicative of a hopeless endeavor for studying strategic voting. The crucial question for strategic voting is how institutional incentives constrain an individual’s decision-making process. Based on expected utility maximization we put forward a micro-logic of an individual’s expectation formation process driven by institutional and dispositional incentives. All well-known institutional incentives to vote strategically that get channelled through the district magnitude are moderated by dispositional factors in order to become relevant for voting decisions. Employing data from Finland – because of its electoral system a particularly hard testing ground - we find considerable evidence for observable implications of our theory.

The political science of John Adams; a study in the theory of mixed government and the bicameral system,

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Address on the power and value of the Sunday school system in evangelizing heathen and re-constructing Christian communitys, by an improvement of the religion and morals, the education and literature, and the social, civil and political institutions of every people : and on the Southern enterprise of the American Sunday school union ; delivered in the Lutheran Church, City of Charleston, on Monday evening, March 17, 1834 /

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