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La Ciencia Política Mas Viva Que Nunca, Fernando Barrientos Del Monte Jul 2009

La Ciencia Política Mas Viva Que Nunca, Fernando Barrientos Del Monte

Fernando Barrientos Del Monte

Recensión: César Cansino, La muerte de la ciencia política, Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 2008, 352 pp., en Revista "Andamios" Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 355-362.


An Introduction To Social Choice, Maxwell L. Stearns Mar 2009

An Introduction To Social Choice, Maxwell L. Stearns

Maxwell L. Stearns

Social choice studies the differing implications of the concept of rationality (or transitivity) for individuals versus groups under specified conditions and the significance of these differences in various institutional decision making contexts. This introductory chapter on social choice for the Elgar Handbook on Public Choice (Elgar Publishing Company, Dan Farber and Anne O’Connell, editors), introduces the basic framework of social choice, considers the implications of social choice for various legal and policy contexts, and provides a framework for evaluating a range of normative proposals grounded in social choice for reforming lawmaking institutions. After a brief introduction, part II introduces the …


Archetypal Energies, The Emergence Of Obama As A Practical Idealist, And Global Transformation, Carroy U. Ferguson Feb 2009

Archetypal Energies, The Emergence Of Obama As A Practical Idealist, And Global Transformation, Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

During this time of change, AHP and kindred spirits on the edge have important roles to play. We are the keepers and nurturers of a transformative and evolutionary Vision for Consciousness and a more humane world. At issue is what I will call the “psychic politics” for global transformation, nurtured by practical idealism and the Archetypal Energies. In other writings, I have described Archetypal Energies as Higher Vibrational Energies, operating deep within our individual and collective psyches, which have their own transcendent value, purpose, quality, and “voice”, unique to the individual. We experience them as “creative urges” to move us …


"Partisan Balance - Why The American System Doesn't Fly Apart," At Princeton Lecture Series In Politics And Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, David R. Mayhew Feb 2009

"Partisan Balance - Why The American System Doesn't Fly Apart," At Princeton Lecture Series In Politics And Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

A three-part lecture series.

March 9, 2009: "Congress and the Presidency: Dissonance in the Electoral Bases?"
March 10, 2009: "What Happens to White House Legislative Proposals?"
March 11, 2009: "Reform as a Property of the System"