The Political Consciousness of Post-Industrialism@@@The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics.

More so than other types of social actors, the professions in modern society have assumed leading roles in the creation and tending of institutions. They are the preeminent institutional agents of our time. Different professions work in various ways: some attempt to create general cultural-cognitive frameworks; others to devise normative prescriptions to guide behavior; and still others to exercise coercive authority. Also, individual professionals assume varying roles within their professional community: some concentrate on devising and testing general principles, others transport these ideas to varying communities; and still others work to apply the principles to individual cases. Professions themselves adhere to an institutional model, but this model has undergone important changes over time.

Lords of the Dance: Professionals as Institutional Agents

The increasing density of international regimes has contributed to the proliferation of overlap across agreements, conflicts among international obligations, and confusion regarding what international and bilateral obligations cover an issue. This symposium examines the consequences of this “international regime complexity” for subsequent politics. What analytical insights can be gained by thinking about any single agreement as being embedded in a larger web of international rules and regimes? Karen Alter and Sophie Meunier's introductory essay defines international regime complexity and identifies the mechanisms through which it may influence the politics of international cooperation. Short contributions analyze how international regime complexity affects politics in specific issue areas: trade (Christina Davis), linkages between human rights and trade (Emilie Hafner-Burton), intellectual property (Laurence Helfer), security politics (Stephanie Hofmann), refugee politics (Alexander Betts), and election monitoring (Judith Kelley). Daniel Drezner concludes by arguing that international regime complexity may well benefit the powerful more than others.

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The Politics of International Regime Complexity

Resena del libro:
Politics in Time. History, Institutions and Social Analysis.
PAUL PIERSON. Princeton University Press. New Jersey, 2004. 196 p.

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Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Social Analysis

Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics

https://www.temasydebates.unr.edu.ar/index.php/tyd/article/download/79/78

Elías José Palti. Verdades y saberes del marxismo. Reacciones de una tradición política ante su “crisis”

El presente ensayo propone una reflexion critica sobre las practicas de los politologos y los limites de la politologia contemporanea. Para ello, reconstruye, en primer lugar, los principales elementos que articulan las nociones de comunidad cientifica de Thomas Kuhn, campo cientifico de Pierre Bourdieu y la de arenas transepistemicas de Karin Knorr-Cetina. En un segundo momento, el texto aplica estos conceptos a la ciencia politica contemporanea (con especial referencia a su desarrollo en Argentina), tratando asi -de forma critica- de echar luz y develar las sombras sobre las consecuencias de adquirir uno u otro posicionamiento teorico-epistemologico sobre la mencionada ciencia

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Debates y embates de la politología.

Introducción a la investigación comparada

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Although Lijphart's typology of consensus and majoritarian democracy can be regarded as the most widely used tool to classify democratic regimes, it has been rarely applied to Latin America so far. We try to fill this gap by adapting Lijphart's typological framework to the Latin American context in the following way. In contrast to previous studies, we treat the type of democracy as an independent variable and include informal factors such as clientelism or informal employment in our assessment of democratic patterns. On this basis, we aim to answer the following questions. First, how did the patterns of democracy evolve in Latin America over the two decades between 1990 and 2010 and what kind of differences can be observed in the region? Second, what are the institutional determinants of the observed changes? We focus on the emergence of new parties because of their strong impact on the first dimension of Lijphart's typology. From our observations we draw the following tentative conclusions: If strong new parties established themselves in the party system but failed to gain the presidency, they pushed the system towards consensualism. Conversely, new parties that gained the presidency produced more majoritarian traits.

Juan Bautista Lucca

Papers

Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Social Analysis

Elías José Palti. Verdades y saberes del marxismo. Reacciones de una tradición política ante su “crisis”

Debates y embates de la politología.

Introducción a la investigación comparada

'Break-In Parties' and Changing Patterns of Democracy in