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Exchanging Development For Market Access? Deep Integration And Industrial Policy Under Multilateral And Regional-Bilateral Trade Agreements, Kenneth C. Shadlen Dec 2005

Exchanging Development For Market Access? Deep Integration And Industrial Policy Under Multilateral And Regional-Bilateral Trade Agreements, Kenneth C. Shadlen

Ken Shadlen

This paper analyzes the developmental trade-offs involved in multilateral versus regional-bilateral strategies of integration into the international economy. I contrast the regulations that guide policy in the areas of trade, investment, and intellectual property in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in regional-bilateral agreements between the US and developing countries. Both strategies of integration feature similar trade-offs, in that developing countries gain increased market access and opportunities for specialization in exchange for diminished space for use of industrial policy instruments to create new productive capacities. However, the trade-offs are intensified in the case of regional-bilateral agreements: countries receive more market …


Uma História Política Da Transição Brasileira: Da Ditadura Militar À Democracia, Adriano Codato Nov 2005

Uma História Política Da Transição Brasileira: Da Ditadura Militar À Democracia, Adriano Codato

Adriano Codato

This article discusses Brazilian political history, from the military-political coup in 1964 through Fernando Henrique Cardoso´s second presidential term. Written in the form of an explanatory summary, three themes are joined in a narrative on the transition from a military dictatorship to a liberal democratic regime: the military, the political and the bureaucratic. We seek to establish causal inferences linking content, methods and the reasons for and meaning of political change beginning in 1974 with the quality of the democratic regime as it emerged during the 1990s. Our explanation is premised on the need to analyze two different but interconnected …


O 18 Brumário, Política E Pós-Modernismo, Adriano Codato Apr 2005

O 18 Brumário, Política E Pós-Modernismo, Adriano Codato

Adriano Codato

Most contemporary interpretations of Karl Marx's analyses of European politics of the second half of the nineteenth century share both the suppression of all references to the "economy" and its substitution either for the idea of the autonomy of the political (in heterodox views), or for the idea of the performative aspect of language (in post-modern views). This article argues that Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonapart contains an interpretation of politics that can be reduced, from the theoretical point of view, to two explanatory principles of the materialist conception of history: the primacy of economics, and the opposition between …


Migración De Estudiantes: Un Aspecto Del Comercio Internacional De Servicios De Educación Superior, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez Apr 2005

Migración De Estudiantes: Un Aspecto Del Comercio Internacional De Servicios De Educación Superior, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

The present article explores one of the dimensions in the international process of higher education, which concerns to temporal students migration with the professional training and obtaining the degrees.


Modelo E Método De Representação Política Durante O Estado Novo, Adriano Codato Jan 2005

Modelo E Método De Representação Política Durante O Estado Novo, Adriano Codato

Adriano Codato

The article deals with the institution that regulated the political representation of elites during the regime of the Estado Novo in Brazil: the Administrative Department. My theme here is exclusively the Administrative Department of the State of São Paulo (DAESP), an auxiliary organ of government alongside the federal intervenor. The article consists in presenting the composition of DAESP over the nine years that it existed and bureaucratic dynamics resulting from its operation between 1939 and 1947. Reporting the frequency of its meetings and the number of decisions produced.


‘Empowering Europe’S Citizens’? Towards A Charter For Services Of General Interest, Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes, Francisco Comín Jan 2005

‘Empowering Europe’S Citizens’? Towards A Charter For Services Of General Interest, Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes, Francisco Comín

Judith Clifton

This article analyses the development of the European Union (EU) project of a Charter for Services of General Interest (SGI) from the mid-1990s to the publication of the White Paper on Services of General Interest and the draft European Constitution in 2004. Though service charters are often associated with New Public Management (NPM) reforms related to privatization, they are also an integral part of the process of EU institution building, and need to be understood alongside developments such as the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Using a four-stage model of international NPM convergence analysis four phases of the Charter for SGI …


Legal Pluralism, Decentralisation And The Roots Of Violence In Indonesia, Robert Cribb Jan 2005

Legal Pluralism, Decentralisation And The Roots Of Violence In Indonesia, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


Higher Education Policies In Mexico In The 1990s: A Critical Balance, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez, Hugo Casanova-Cardiel Jan 2005

Higher Education Policies In Mexico In The 1990s: A Critical Balance, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez, Hugo Casanova-Cardiel

Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

This article analyses recent policies in higher education in Mexico. The last two decades provide the starting point, and the interpretation centres around higher education policies drawn up by successive presidential administrations of Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994) and Zedillo Ponce de Leon (1994-2000). The second part sets out an initial systemization of the political agenda launched by the federal government of Vicente Fox for the period 2001-2006.


Modernización Incierta. Un Balance De Las Políticas De Educación Superior En México, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez, Hugo Casanova-Cardiel Jan 2005

Modernización Incierta. Un Balance De Las Políticas De Educación Superior En México, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez, Hugo Casanova-Cardiel

Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

El texto ofrece una descripción y análisis de las políticas recientes en el campo educativo superior de México. Se toma como punto de partida el contexto del periodo 1985 a 2005, centrando la interpretación en las políticas de los periodos presidenciales de Carlos Salinas de Gortari y Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. Se propone una interpretación acerca de las tendencias a futuro.


Consolidación O Simplemente Persistencia Democrática? Un Análisis De Las Percepciones De Las Élites Políticas De Nicaragua, El Salvador Y Guatemala., Salvador Marti I Puig Jan 2005

Consolidación O Simplemente Persistencia Democrática? Un Análisis De Las Percepciones De Las Élites Políticas De Nicaragua, El Salvador Y Guatemala., Salvador Marti I Puig

Salvador Marti i Puig

Retornando el estudio de las élites políticas como elemento de análisis para el examen de la democratización en América Latina, este artículo se interroga sobre el alcance del proceso de convergencia intraelitaria, que siguió a la recuperación o instauración reciente de la democracia, en tres países centroamericanos (Nicaragua, El Salvador y Guatemala). El análisis desarrollado, centrado en las opiniones y actitudes que los principales grupos parlamentarios de estos tres países tienen con respecto a la democracia y sus instituciones, así como también en relación con el vínculo Estado-mercado, subraya las características básicas de un consenso elitista aún débil, dada la …


Unidos Por La Historia: Desempeño Electoral Y Perspectivas De Colorados Y Blancos Como Bloque Político, Daniel Chasquetti, Adolfo Garcé Jan 2005

Unidos Por La Historia: Desempeño Electoral Y Perspectivas De Colorados Y Blancos Como Bloque Político, Daniel Chasquetti, Adolfo Garcé

Daniel Chasquetti

No abstract provided.


The Constitutional Adjudication Mosaic Of Latin America, Julio Antonio Rios-Figueroa, Patricio Navia Jan 2005

The Constitutional Adjudication Mosaic Of Latin America, Julio Antonio Rios-Figueroa, Patricio Navia

Julio Ríos-Figueroa

This article maps current constitutional adjudication systems in 17 Latin American democracies. Using recent theoretical literature, the authors classify systems by type (concrete or abstract), timing (a priori or a posteriori), and jurisdiction (centralized or decentralized). This approach captures the richness and diversity of constitutional adjudication in Latin America, where most countries concurrently have two or more mechanisms. Four models of constitutional adjudication are currently in use. In the past, weak democratic institutions and the prevalence of inter par- tes, as opposed to erga omnes, effects of judicial decisions, prevented the development of constitutional adjudication. Today, democratic consolidation has strengthened …


Civil-Military Relations In A Civilized State: Panama, Ronald D. Sylvia, Constantine P. Danopoulos Jan 2005

Civil-Military Relations In A Civilized State: Panama, Ronald D. Sylvia, Constantine P. Danopoulos

Constantine P. Danopoulos

This article traces and analyzes civil-military relations in Panama. After a brief overview of the role of the National Guard in the country politics, the article concentrates on political developments since the 1989 U.S. invasion to overthrow the Noriega regime and the subsequent elimination of the Panamanian military. The study seeks to shed light on political life in an armyless and politically and socially fractionalized country occupying a sensitive strategic location. The concluding part of the study speculates on the possibility that terrorism, domestic security concerns, and regional considerations may prompt Washington and Panamanian leaders to reverse the decision to …


Racial And Ethnic Attitudes And Individual Relatedness Among Greek-Americans, Constantine P. Danopoulos, Anna Karpathakis Jan 2005

Racial And Ethnic Attitudes And Individual Relatedness Among Greek-Americans, Constantine P. Danopoulos, Anna Karpathakis

Constantine P. Danopoulos

The article looks at the self-identity of Greek immigrants in the U.S. and incorporation of American racial ideologies into their racial repertoires. It recognizes Greek Americans for creating a national and racial framework that blends elements of both home and host society institutions and ideologies. It recalls the arrival of thousands of Greek immigrants in the U.S. in the 20th century. The increasing inter-marriage rates between Greek immigrants and Greek Americans are also noted.