Auditoria de la democracia. Ecuador by Mitchell Seligson por Freidenberg, Flavia

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Either a Saint or a Prostitute: Ecuadorian Women in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries Novels por Andrade, Jorge

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Citizen participation on the crossway: Direct democracy mechanisms in Ecuador, Peru, Argentina por Welp, Yanina

“…Through a comparative study of Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, this article argues that popular en- quiries, citizen initiative and recall of term of office would contribute either to enforce delega- tive democracy, that is, executive power prominence based on popular support and against the other powers of the state, or to increase quality of democracy by introducing citizens’ control mechanisms and participation in decision making.…”
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Argentina's Inter-Force Field: Notes on the Issues Surrounding the Military por Laleff Ilieff, Ricardo J.

“…In this respect, the relevance of “jointness” in Argentine history leads to a number of questions that cannot be tackled using either one of those different approaches. Employing a critical revision of the concept “civil control,” this article proposes a conceptual redefinition in order to move forward on the quest for an adequate analytical instrument that allows for enquiring into areas that have been neglected by traditional research.…”
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Bolivia: the sinking of the Constituent Assembly and the collapse of the constitutional project por Zalles, Alberto

“…A constitutional project with a philosophy grounded in the multiethnic nature of society and the collective aspirations towards social justice, has been unable to forge either a national pact or a simple plan to move towards a new form of state institutionalization. …”
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Obstacles and Challenges to Gender Parity. Political Violence, Electoral System and Interculturalism por Albaine, Laura

“…Electoral systems tend to either optimize or reduce the impact of such gender parity measures. …”
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Enforced disappearances, multiple motherhoods: Outlines for a communicational mapping of absences por Tamayo-Arango, Alba Shirley, Arenas-López, Katherinne

“…We study the role of expressive collective agency in empowering a transformation of female or feminized subjects- either collective or individual-, through the accounts of five women who confronted violence before and after the enforced disappearance episode. …”
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Violet glasses… but with what lenses? Theoretical routes between the production and the reproduction of work por Colombo, Andreina

“…Using the analogy of the “purple glasses”, three different approaches are identified: (i) with single vision lenses (looking at either production or reproduction), which attempts to describe the two realms from the viewpoint of only one of the two, ii) with bifocal lenses, which consider productive and reproductive work as equally relevant, while establishing clear-cut differences between the two, and iii) with progressive lenses, which allow us to see the two domains as part of a continuum, stressing their simultaneities, overlays and intermittencies . …”
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Public policy training in Latin America: Current status and challenges for political science por Bentancur, Nicolás, Bidegain, Germán, Martínez, Rodrigo

“…This has a direct impact in the relative prominence granted to either domestic or external sources in course reading lists. …”
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