Los tribunales constitucionales de los Estados democráticos son hoy, en menor medida, un tribunal estatal y, en mayor medida, un tribunal constitucional social.
El libro ofrece una visión integral del Tribunal Constitucional de Austria como pieza central del constitucionalismo europeo: explica su origen, interrupciones y restauración, y muestra cómo la jurisdicción constitucional austriaca ha modelado técnicas y categorías hoy comunes en Europa.
Professor Avrich records the history of the anarchist movement from its Russian origins in the 19th century, with a full discussion of Bakunin and Kropotkin, to its upsurge in the 1905 and 1917 Social Democratic Revolutions, and its decline and fall after the Bolshevik Revolution.
"e;Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States.
The political and ideological turmoil of the late 1960's stimulated among Anglo-American philosophers a new interest in applying moral philosophy to the problems of contemporary society, and a search for critical perspectives on Marx and Marxist thought.
This study, based largely on Chinese journals rarely available to Western scholars, explores the abrupt turnabout of Chinese views of the Soviet Union from condemnations of revisionism"e; to appreciation for problems common to both countries.
During the years that the German Social Democratic party organization was legally suppressed by the Socialist Law, the movement underwent a fundamental transformation in its relationship to the traditions of political democracy and socialist theory with which it began in the 1860's.
The author has "e;tried to understand the realities of Soviet society, drawing both upon a superb critical judgment and a warmly sympathetic human insight.
This study, based on an extensive program of interviewing former American, British, French, and Italian Communists, provides many answers to these questions and gives a convincing insight into the motivations, tensions, and loyalties of Party members.
Political scientists generally have been disposed to treat Italian Fascism--if not generic fascism--as an idiosyncratic episode in the special history of Europe.
At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/ pro-life"e; group it is the life of the fetus itself.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantías judiciales de la Constitución, que busca contribuir al estudio y examen crítico del régimen procesal de los mecanismos judiciales de protección de derechos fundamentales en Colombia.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantías judiciales de la Constitución del Departamento de Derecho Constitucional de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y ofrece un estudio exhaustivo sobre la acción popular.
Esta obra forma parte de la serie Garantías judiciales de la Constitución, que examina críticamente los mecanismos judiciales de protección de derechos fundamentales en Colombia.
In this collection of excerpts from the essential works of Hendrik de Man (1885-1953), Peter Dodge reinstates in historical consciousness this pioneer sociologist of the European socialist movement and of labor in industrial society.
Homelessness, black neighborhood development, problems of abortion and sex education--how does religion affect the politics of an American city confronting these and other concerns?
The Center of Mass: How Cities Create Power Beyond Office is a structural study of political influence, urban identity, and non-positional power, using Mumbai and Balasaheb Thackeray as its central historical case.
La renuncia voluntaria a los privilegios hereditarios de la aristocracia, la voluntad científica de su pensamiento, así como el estilo de su escritura, claro y pedagógico, hacen de Piotr A.
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), filosofo, historiador de las ideas y profesor universitario, fue un elocuente defensor de la libertad individual frente a los totalitarismos.
In a period marked by growing fluidity between the West and the Communist nations, the role of revolution as an instrument of political and social change takes on an intense, possibly dangerous importance.
This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late Chou era into the twentieth century.
"e;Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States, is as important a contribution as the essays.
A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous formal constraints on women's public activity, but many women in Rome's leading families wielded substantial political and social influence.
A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart.
For about eight months in 1968 Czechoslovakia underwent rapid and radical changes that were unparalleled in the history of communist reform; in the eight months that followed, those changes were dramatically reversed.
