Athēnaiōn politeia. Aristotle on the constitution of Athens,

"Second edition."

Aristotelis Politeia athēnaiōn /

Title romanized; t.p. and text in Greek.

De politeia ecclesiastica Christi, et hierarchica opposita, libri tres.

Pts. 1 & 2 paged continuously.

Politeia athenaion

Mode of access: Internet.

Welfare Regimes and “progressive” governments in Latin America: The cases of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia

Several authors have applied the concept of Welfare Regimens for studying social policy in Latin America (Esping-Andersen, 1993 and 2000). Among others, Martínez Franzoni (2007) develops a typology, with fi eld work is at the turn of the millennium, and establishes three categories: State-productivist regime, state-protectionist and family orientated. Most countries in the region are placed in the latter category. The hypothesis of this article argues that with the emergence of governments considered “left” or “progressive” in several countries of the region from the late ‘90s and, more decisively, in 2000’, the map of welfare regimes models could have mutated substantively. The nationally transformative experiences are different (various socio-economic realities and political action in which they are located exists) but they have several contact points that can be summarized in a greater state intervention in different areas previously closed to their operating and recovery of important functions of welfare and care of the population by the government. The paper discusses with an exploratory and descriptive approach the welfare schemes that would shape in three countries that have constitutionalized the change from the neoliberal paradigm: Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.

Res Publica: Citizenship and Political Representation in Portugal, 1820-1926

The term res publica (literally “thing of the people”) was coined by the Romans to translate the Greek word politeia, which, as we know, referred to a political community organised in accordance with certain principles, amongst which the notion of the “good life” (as against exclusively private interests) was paramount. This ideal also came to be known as political virtue. To achieve it, it was necessary to combine the best of each “constitutional” type and avoid their worst aspects (tyranny, oligarchy and ochlocracy). Hence, the term acquired from the Greeks a sense of being a “mixed” and “balanced” system. Anyone that was entitled to citizenship could participate in the governance of the “public thing”. This implied the institutionalization of open debate and confrontation between interested parties as a way of achieving the consensus necessary to ensure that man the political animal, who fought with words and reason, prevailed over his “natural” counterpart. These premises lie at the heart of the project which is now being presented under the title of Res Publica: Citizenship and Political Representation in Portugal, 1820-1926. The fact that it is integrated into the centenary commemorations of the establishment of the Republic in Portugal is significant, as it was the idea of revolution – with its promise of rupture and change – that inspired it. However, it has also sought to explore events that could be considered the precursor of democratization in the history of Portugal, namely the vintista, setembrista and patuleia revolutions. It is true that the republican regime was opposed to the monarchic. However, although the thesis that monarchy would inevitably lead to tyranny had held sway for centuries, it had also been long believed that the monarchic system could be as “politically virtuous” as a republic (in the strict sense of the word) provided that power was not concentrated in the hands of a single individual. Moreover, various historical experiments had shown that republics could also degenerate into Caesarism and different kinds of despotism. Thus, when absolutism began to be overturned in continental Europe in the name of the natural rights of man and the new social pact theories, initiating the difficult process of (written) constitutionalization, the monarchic principle began to be qualified as a “monarchy hedged by republican institutions”, a situation in which not even the king was exempt from isonomy. This context justifies the time frame chosen here, as it captures the various changes and continuities that run through it. Having rejected the imperative mandate and the reinstatement of the model of corporative representation (which did not mean that, in new contexts, this might not be revived, or that the second chamber established by the Constitutional Charter of 1826 might not be given another lease of life), a new power base was convened: national sovereignty, a precept that would be shared by the monarchic constitutions of 1822 and 1838, and by the republican one of 1911. This followed the French example (manifested in the monarchic constitution of 1791 and in the Spanish constitution of 1812), as not even republicans entertained a tradition of republicanism based upon popular sovereignty. This enables us to better understand the rejection of direct democracy and universal suffrage, and also the long incapacitation (concerning voting and standing for office) of the vast body of “passive” citizens, justified by “enlightened”, property- and gender-based criteria. Although the republicans had promised in the propaganda phase to alter this situation, they ultimately failed to do so. Indeed, throughout the whole period under analysis, the realisation of the potential of national sovereignty was mediated above all by the individual citizen through his choice of representatives. However, this representation was indirect and took place at national level, in the hope that action would be motivated not by particular local interests but by the common good, as dictated by reason. This was considered the only way for the law to be virtuous, a requirement that was also manifested in the separation and balance of powers. As sovereignty was postulated as single and indivisible, so would be the nation that gave it soul and the State that embodied it. Although these characteristics were common to foreign paradigms of reference, in Portugal, the constitutionalization process also sought to nationalise the idea of Empire. Indeed, this had been the overriding purpose of the 1822 Constitution, and it persisted, even after the loss of Brazil, until decolonization. Then, the dream of a single nation stretching from the Minho to Timor finally came to an end.

Comunicando saberes : una propuesta de formación en artes y cultura para el Departamento del Guaviare

Comunicando saberes es una propuesta de formación en artes y cultura que se articula en una región específica del País: el Departamento del Guaviare. A partir de la apropiación de “campos de expresiones y de conocimientos”, es decir, saberes colectivos y vigentes de los diferentes pueblos y regiones representados en este Departamento, se propone su reedificación (la creación), y su tránsito al plano de las significaciones colectivas (la comunicación). En esta propuesta formativa, el acto pedagógico no sólo deberá coincidir, suscitar y adaptarse a los procesos creativos conducidos o espontáneos que supone la actividad artística, sino que deberá poner en marcha otras estrategias tendientes a movilizar los conocimientos que luego se llevarán al acto formativo, a ampliar y mejorar la producción creativa, y activar las relaciones y el tránsito de las creaciones a la sociedad.

Una nueva mirada a la frontera: diplomacia cultural como estrategia de integración en Norte de Santander y Táchira

El presente estudio de caso tiene como propósito analizar los aportes de diplomacia cultural al proceso de integración entre el departamento de Norte de Santander y el Estado de Táchira, ubicados en la frontera de la República de Colombia y la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, durante el periodo 2006-2013.Para explicar esto, en primer lugar, se describe el papel de la diplomacia cultural como herramienta de política exterior y, su relación con las fronteras y la integración. Posteriormente se analizan las estrategias de diplomacia cultural empleadas por Colombia para las zonas de frontera, a partir de los lineamientos de política exterior establecidos en el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2006-2010 y 2010-2014 y, finalmente se analizan los aportes de las estrategias de diplomacia cultural al proceso de integración de la frontera Norte de Santander-Táchira.

Women's Club of Rock Hill Records - Accession 219

The Women's Club of Rock Hill's mission is to further the cultural, educational, and social interest of its members and to promote interest in Rock Hill’s civic development and welfare. The Women's Club of Rock Hill Records consist of constitutions and bylaws, histories, minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, program notes, brochures, newsletters, membership lists, yearbooks, questions, certificates, awards, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The records also relate to the thirteen affiliated clubs comprising the Woman’s Club of Rock Hill: Amateur Arts, Arts Appreciation, Book Discussion, Book Lovers, Crafts, Hearthstone, Hermitage, Home Study, Lantern, Literary, Outlook, Palmetto, and Politeia, and to other records for the South Carolina Federation of Women’s Club and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Records of various organizations not directly related to the Woman’s Club of Rock Hill are also included, such as the Tri-County Parents Without Partners, the Rock Hill Community Council, the Rock Hill Model Cities Commission, the Rock Hill Senior Center, and the South Carolina Conference on the Status of Women.

Sobre el concepto de filosofía política en Leo Strauss

Según Leo Strauss, la filosofía política no es más que el intento por responder una pregunta fundamental: la pregunta por el mejor régimen de gobierno que haga posible la “vida buena". Esta pregunta admite dos direcciones distintas como respuesta, y éstas se identifican con lo que el Autor denomina solución clásica y solución moderna al problema de la filosofía política. Sin embargo, sólo la primera puede considerarse una respuesta apropiada al problema, aun cuando debe enfrentar algunas dificultades y contradicciones que en este artículo se analizan en detalle.

Entaphia; in memoria di Emilio Pozzi la scuola torinese di storia antica.

"Emilio Pozzi": p.[v]-ix.

Aristotle's Constitution of Athens : a revised text with an introduction, critical and explanatory notes, testimonia and indices /

"First edition 1893."

Observations on the Athenian judicial procedure on the subject of Lysias XXIII

It is thought that Lysias’ speech XXIII, Against Pancleon, was delivered in a paragraphe or ‘counter-indictment process’, called antigraphe in an initial phase. However a review of these concepts and, in general, of some aspects of Athenian judicial procedure has allowed us to conclude that the mentioned speech was made by the plaintiff, client of the logographer, against the defendant in a ‘action for false testimony’, dike pseudomartyrion.