Non-economic voting and incumbent strength in Turkey

Evidence suggests that incumbent parties find it harder to be re-elected in emerging than in advanced democracies because of more serious economic problems in the former. Yet the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) has ruled Turkey since 2002. Does economic performance sufficiently account for the electoral strength of the AKP government? Reliance on economic performance alone to gain public support makes a government vulnerable to economic fluctuations. This study includes time-series regressions for the period 1950-2011 in Turkey and demonstrates that even among Turkey's long-lasting governments, the AKP has particular electoral strength that cannot be adequately explained by economic performance.

Un aspecto de...

En relación a la arquitectura mediada, el autor realiza una breve reflexón sobre la problemática que enfrenta al lenguaje fotográfico y a la arquitectura, y por extensión se relaciona las deudas de este con al lenguaje infográfico

Arqueología del Futuro. La movilidad como opción de futuro. Viviendas móviles, transportables, desmontables

A través de la Historia aparecen muchas y variadas manifestaciones de cambio necesarias para afrontar el futuro 2 de la arquitectura, o lo que es lo mismo, de las ciudades. Estas manifestaciones, alternativas, teorías, proyectos, a menudo denostados por la crítica o dejados de lado por lasTeorías Históricas de carácter generalista 3 , destacan por la generación de nuevas visiones, fuera de los marcos convencionales (dentro de la modernidad) de la arquitectura contemporánea. Su carácter prospectivo dibuja un gran elenco de posibles futuros que deben ser estudiados, analizados, catalogados, desde una perspectiva actual (ese futuro imaginado desde el pasado) que permita evaluar los grados de vigencia de los mismos a través de una Arqueología del Futuro

El Pisito 2011

Analyzing residential architecture in Spain today signifies tackling a complex, apparently fragmentary situation, one that makes comment or criticism quite difficult. In the last few years authority over housing and city planning has been transferred to the regions,1 and each has developed its own framework of laws, its own regulations and requirements, and has shaped urban and regional development on the basis of its own criteria. In parallel, schools of architecture have multiplied, reaching many of the zones previously regarded as ?peripheral.? It is easy to understand how the old administrative centrality has given way to a more pluralistic situation closer to the specific problems of each city and region. As a result cultural differences have been accentuated, even compromising the possibility of speaking of an ?architecture Spanish? or reducing it to a mere summation or mosaic of local circumstances. Part of the debate of recent years has been focused on underlining these differences. This essay takes the opposite approach. The premise from which it starts out is that analysis of the phenomenon of ?residential architecture in Spain? makes it possible to acknowledge the survival of a cultural unity that explains the present and the recent past and that does not conflict with the diversity of local experiences.