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Regreso a la jaula: El fracaso de López Obrador
by Roger Bartra¿Cuáles fueron las verdaderas razones del triunfo electoral de Andrés Manuel López Obrador en 2018? Y aún más importante: a dos años de iniciado su gobierno, ¿dónde están las tan esperadas transformaciones políticas que prometía con vehemencia? Una de las claves para el éxito de AMLO, asegura Roger Bartra en este libro, fueron las cuestionables alianzas que impulsaron la campaña del hoy presidente, y que revelaron finalmente su verdadera orientación política. Aunque para los seguidores más fieles de su partido se vendió como un demócrata firmemente anclado en la izquierda, los hechos lo han revelado como un populista de la más conservadora derecha, inspirado en el priismo autoritario de los años sesenta y setenta. Para Bartra, esto significa sólo una cosa: la así autonombrada «Cuarta Transformación» no es sino un retroceso a una etapa de nuestra historia política que parecía ya superada, con todos los riesgos políticos, económicos y sociales que esto implica. Para muestra, basta un somero recuento de los resultados que han traído sus maltrechos programas sociales y sus agresivas medidas de austeridad, amén de su errática respuesta ante la emergencia derivada de la covid-19. Hoy es claro, quizá más que nunca, que el proyecto político de AMLO ha sido un fracaso que puede ser peligroso para el destino de México en el corto plazo. Ante ese escenario, las elecciones de 2021 tienen la posibilidad de equilibrar la balanza política del país en favor de una verdadera democracia plural o consolidar uno de los movimientos políticos más nocivos de nuestra historia reciente. ¿Qué camino elegirán los votantes?
El regreso al infierno electoral: Las elecciones de 2023 y el juicio final del PRI
by Bernardo BarrancoJULIO ASTILLERO • ALBERTO AZIZ NASSIF • BERNARDO BARRANCO VILLAFÁN • GABRIEL CORONA ARMENTA • FRANCISCO CRUZ JIMÉNEZ • ISRAEL DÁVILA • ÁLVARO DELGADO • ENRIQUE I. GÓMEZ • FABRIZIO MEJÍA MADRID • TERE MONTAÑO • VERÓNICA VELOZ VALENCIA Las elecciones del próximo 4 de junio evidenciarán cómo se vivirá la sucesión presidencial en 2024. En el Estado de México, los partidos políticos ya están ensayando sus buenas y sus malas artes para atraer votantes, están sometiendo a prueba máxima la capacidad del árbitro electoral, emplean todos sus recursos intentando seducir a la hidra mediática y han desatado rudísimos rounds de sombra en la entidad con el mayor padrón electoral. Saben que quien impere en estas elecciones habrá dado un paso de oro rumbo a Palacio Nacional. En el último gran examen de las fuerzas políticas antes de la madre de todas las batallas, descuellan dos protagonistas: el PRI, que jamás ha perdido la gubernatura mexiquense -y-que de perderla recibiría el peor golpe en su historia, tal vez definitivo-, y Morena, que sabe que el futuro de la 4T y del obradorismo pasa por controlar esa entidad, al precio que sea. Esta es la historia, estos son los combates.
El regreso liberal: Más allá de la política de la identidad
by Mark Lilla¿Cómo puede la izquierda recuperar sus valores y ofrecer un proyecto de futuro comprometido con la sociedad? El análisis y las conclusiones de Lilla son de lectura obligatoria a ambos lados del Atlántico para entender qué sucede a los partidos progresistas. La victoria electoral de Donald Trump en noviembre de 2016 causó un terremoto devastador en la izquierda estadounidense. Uno de los primeros en reaccionar fue Mark Lilla, el respetado autor de ensayos como Pensadores temerarios o La mente naufragada. Su polémico diagnóstico consideraba que la bizantina deriva del pensamiento progresista hacia debates y posiciones relacionados con la identidad, la alejaban irremisiblemente de la mayoría de los votantes: la izquierda solo podría volver a gobernar si lograba reconstruir un mensaje que apelara a la sociedad en su conjunto y propusiera una visión de un futuro común. En El regreso liberal, Lilla presenta un argumento apasionado, duro y doloroso acerca del fracaso del liberalismo estadounidense desde los años de Reagan. Aunque Clinton y Obama repitieron mandato, el debate político central sigue dominado por las ideas republicanas: un papel reducido del Estado, impuestos bajos e individualismo a ultranza. Enfrente, los demócratas no han sido capaces de construir un discurso alternativo, perdidos en la selva de las identidades. La crítica ha dicho:«Un breve y excelente libro sobre el declive del liberalismo estadounidense que explica cómo pasó de los éxitos de Roosevelt a los abismos de la política de la identidad actual.»Fareed Zakaria, CNN «En su nuevo libro Lilla lanza un aviso importante, apasionado y muy crítico a los liberales que, en su opinión, están atrapados en el fango. El mensaje de Lilla es oportuno y necesario.»Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Washington Post «Lilla plantea una conversación magistral en este breve ensayo.»Los Angeles Review of Books «El retorno liberal es un diagnóstico perfecto.»The Guardian «El libro de Lilla es un importante contrapeso a la opinión general.»The Financial Times «Tras el desastre de noviembre de 2016, se necesita urgentemente un análisis de la catástrofe. Mark Lilla ha escrito un ensayo profundo y provocativo sobre lo que ocurrió, y lo que liberales, moderados y progresistas deberían hacer al respecto.»Steven Pinker
Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by Junko KatoPolitical economists have viewed large public expenditures as a product of leftist government and the expression of a stronger representation of labor interest. The formation of governments' funding bases is a topic that has not been thoroughly explored, and this book sheds important new light on the issue of taxes and welfare. Beginning with a clarification of the development of postwar tax policies in industrial democracies, Junko Kato finds that the differentiation of tax revenue structure is path-dependent upon the shift to regressive taxation. Kato challenges the conventional belief that progressive taxation leads to large public expenditures in mature welfare states.
Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute The Press And Imperil Free Speech
by Craig SilvermanWe Regret the Error. It's a phrase that appears daily in newspapers — the standard admission that something has gone terribly wrong in the reporting, editing, or printing of an article. This brief notice is generally accompanied by an equally terse correction. But Craig Silverman – editor of RegretTheError.com, one of the Internet's most popular media-related Web sites — goes beyond the stale boilerplate to ask key questions that concern everyone who follows the news, both print and broadcast: What is the wellspring of this flood of errors? What can be done to minimize mistakes? Does this culture of error degrade our media-driven society? The resulting answers make for a lively journey through the history of media mistakes, punctuated with a collection of funny, shocking, and often disturbing journalistic slip-ups. The errors are often hilarious, while others are calamitous and even tragic.By pinpointing numerous categories of error (including “Fuzzy Numbers” — when numbers and math undermine reporting; “Obiticide” – printing the obituary of a living person; and “Unidentified Consequences” — typos and misidentifications that create a new, incorrect reality), Silverman shines a bright light on the media's carelessness. Conceding that errors are often inadvertent, the author finds nonetheless that they are occasionally rooted in serious ethical lapses. He chronicles the decline of fact-checking at magazines and the simultaneous rise of fact-checking readers and interest groups, and voices a rousing call to arms for all news organizations to mend their ways and reclaim the role of the press as the honest voice of the people.Regret the Error is a book for anyone who follows the news, and for everyone who insists that our free speech be safeguarded by a vigilant press.
Regrets Only: A Novel
by Sally QuinnThe sizzling novel of two passionate and talented women—and the man they both love…Alison Sterling, beautiful, brilliant, and blonde—and a reporter for a major Washington daily—is embroiled in a secret love affair with the sexy, successful, very married bureau chief of a national newsweekly, Desmond Shaw. Meanwhile, Shaw is having an affair with Sadie Grey, the Southern belle wife of the Vice President. And Sadie Grey is having the time of her life. Irresistible love triangles—which begin as physical attraction and turn into love—are set amidst the dazzling, social whirl of power and politics, and &“there&’s plenty to keep the pages turning&” (Cosmopolitan).
Regular Soldiers, Irregular War: Violence and Restraint in the Second Intifada
by Devorah S. ManekinWhat explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices.Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level. Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency.
The Regulated Internet: Europe's Quest for Digital Sovereignty (Professional Practice in Governance and Public Organizations)
by Vittorio Bertola Stefano QuintarelliThe Internet was once envisioned as a borderless realm, promising to unify nations into a peaceful global society and empower individuals with unlimited access to knowledge. Supported by Western deregulation, this dream flourished - until recently. The European Union's introduction of strict laws governing privacy, competition, and content moderation marked a turning point that shocked big tech and initiated a wave of regulations worldwide. In this book, two leading European experts present the reasons behind this seismic shift. They explain how American dominance by a few colossal companies has reshaped our online lives and triggered a movement towards a regulated Internet. This insightful book also offers perspectives on future developments, emphasizing that our collective decisions shape the digital landscape. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the changing landscape of Internet governance and its global implications.
Regulating Agriculture (Critical Perspectives on Rural Change #5)
by Philip Lowe Terry Marsden Sarah WhatmoreOriginally published in 1994, this volume brings together a set of essays reflecting the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states in seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Drawing on different national and international viewpoints, the essays present original analyses of agricultural regulation in a comparative context. The aspects covered include the roots of the post-war food order; the roles of corporatism, agribusiness and technological change, the challenge of de-regulation and environmental reforms, the introduction of market principles and mechanisms into centrally planned economies and the efforts to forge a new order in international trade.
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
by Wendy BrownTolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying violence--dramatically so in the war in Iraq and the War on Terror. Wielded, especially since 9/11, as a way of distinguishing a civilized West from a barbaric Islam, tolerance is paradoxically underwriting Western imperialism. Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
by Wendy BrownTolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying violence--dramatically so in the war in Iraq and the War on Terror. Wielded, especially since 9/11, as a way of distinguishing a civilized West from a barbaric Islam, tolerance is paradoxically underwriting Western imperialism. Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.
Regulating Business for Peace
by Jolyon FordThis book addresses gaps in thinking and practice on how the private sector can both help and hinder the process of building peace after armed conflict. It argues that weak governance in fragile and conflict-affected societies creates a need for international authorities to regulate the social impact of business activity in these places as a special interim duty. Policymaking should seek appropriate opportunities to engage with business while harnessing its positive contributions to sustainable peace. However, scholars have not offered frameworks for what is considered 'appropriate' engagement or properly theorised techniques for how best to influence responsible business conduct. United Nations peace operations are peak symbols of international regulatory responsibilities in conflict settings, and debate continues to grow around the private sector's role in development generally. This book is the first to study how peace operations have engaged with business to influence its peace-building impact.
Regulating Cannabis: A Global Review and Future Directions
by Toby Seddon William FloodgateThis book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis? The global cannabis prohibition regime is fragmenting as more countries experiment with decriminalization and legalization, and this book aims to make sense of this rapidly changing world. The ‘cannabis challenge’ is complex. How do we balance creating a potentially lucrative legal cannabis industry with protecting public health? How do we hardwire social and racial justice into our reform initiatives? How do we build a cannabis trade that is environmentally sustainable? The book seeks to make sense of our present through a state-of-the-art global review of cannabis law reform initiatives – mapping what has been done, where, and with what impacts. It attempts to generate new ideas for the future of cannabis regulation by viewing it through the lens of business regulation and learning lessons from how other consumer products are regulated.
Regulating Capital: Setting Standards for the International Financial System
by David Andrew SingerFinancial instability threatens the global economy. The volatility of capital movements across national borders has led many observers to argue for a reformed "global financial architecture," a body of consistent rules and institutions to prevent financial crises. Yet regulators have a decidedly mixed record in their attempts to create global standards for the financial system. David Andrew Singer seeks to explain the varying pressures on regulatory agencies to negotiate internationally acceptable rules and suggests that the variation is largely traceable to the different domestic political pressures faced by regulators. In Regulating Capital, Singer provides both a theory of the effects of domestic pressures on international regulation and a detailed analysis of regulators' attempts at international rulemaking in banking, securities, and insurance. Singer addresses the complexities of global finance in an accessible style, and he does not turn away from the more dramatic aspects of globalization; he makes clear the international implications of bank failures and stock-market crashes, the rise of derivatives, and the catastrophic financial losses caused by Hurricane Katrina and the events of September 11.
Regulating Charities: The Inside Story (Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations)
by Myles McGregor-Lowndes Bob WyattIn this volume charity commissioners and leading charity policy reformers from across the world reflect on the aims and objectives of charity regulation and what it has achieved. Regulating Charities represents an insider’s review of the last quarter century of charity law policy and an insight for its future development. Charity Commissioners and nonprofit regulatory agency heads chart the nature of charity law reforms that they have implemented, with a ‘warts and all’ analysis. They are joined by influential sector reformers who assess the outcomes of their policy agitation. All reflect on the current state of charities in a fiscally restrained environment, often with conservative governments, and offer their views on productive regulatory paths available for the future. This topical collection brings together major charity regulation actors, and will be of great interest to anyone concerned with contemporary third sector policy-making, public administration and civil society.
Regulating Chemical Risks
by Michael Gilek Christina Rudén Johan ErikssonThis important contribution to the scientific understanding of chemical risk regulation offers a coherent, comprehensive and updated multidisciplinary analysis, written by leading experts in toxicology, ecotoxicology, risk analysis, media and communication, law, and political science.
Regulating Creation: The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction
by Andrew Flavell Martin Cheryl Milne Ian B. Lee Trudo LemmensIn 2004, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada. Fully in force by 2007, the act was intended to safeguard and promote the health, safety, dignity, and rights of Canadians. However, a 2010 Supreme Court of Canada decision ruled that key parts of the act were invalid. Regulating Creation is a collection of essays built around the 2010 ruling. Featuring contributions by Canadian and international scholars, it offers a variety of perspectives on the role of law in dealing with the legal, ethical, and policy issues surrounding changing reproductive technologies. In addition to the in-depth analysis of the Canadian case the volume reflects on how other countries, particularly the U.S., U.K. and New Zealand regulate these same issues. Combining a detailed discussion of legal approaches with an in-depth exploration of societal implications, Regulating Creation deftly navigates the obstacles of legal policy amidst the rapid current of reproductive technological innovation.
Regulating Difference: Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West
by Marian BurchardtTransnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity and has led to profound changes in the religious make-up of society across the Western world. As a result, societies and nation-states have faced the challenge of crafting ways to bring new religious communities into existing institutions and the legal frameworks. Regulating Difference explores how the state regulates religious diversity and examines the processes whereby religious diversity and expression becomes part of administrative landscapes of nation-states and people’s everyday lives. Arguing that concepts of nationhood are key to understanding the governance of religious diversity, Regulating Difference employs a transatlantic comparison of the Spanish region of Catalonia and the Canadian province of Quebec to show how processes of nation-building, religious heritage-making and the mobilization of divergent interpretations of secularism are co-implicated in shaping religious diversity. It argues that religious diversity has become central for governing national and urban spaces.
Regulating Digital Markets: The European Approach (Palgrave Studies in Institutions, Economics and Law)
by Antonio Manganelli Antonio NicitaThis book illustrates the challenges that regulators and policy makers have faced in the transition from the ‘old’ network industries to the new digital ecosystem. It succinctly describes the evolution of digital economy, its main actors, notably global digital platforms, as well as its interactions, interdependences, and trade-offs. Eventually, it proposes insights about why public rules are needed, what kind of rules could be more effective, fair, and efficient, and who should pose and enforce them. The book is opened by an introduction, dealing with Digital Transformation, Big Techs, and Public Policies, which provides a general conceptual and thematic framework to the following analysis but could be also read as a stand-alone paper. The following chapters are grouped in two parts: I. The Evolution of Digital Markets and Digital Rights, and II. Regulating Big Tech’s Impact on Market and Society. The secondary title - the European approach – has a twofold meaning. It highlights the fact that this work has a clear focus on EU law and policy - although the economic and institutional issues addressed are global phenomena, common to all world’s economies. In addition, it also underlines that European digital policy is not yet complete and effective. This book intends to provide a small contribution to the ongoing policy making process, as well as to the wider academic and policy debate.
Regulating eTechnologies in the European Union
by Tanel KerikmäeThe EU strategy 2020 includes ambitious plans for e-regulation that could improve Europe's competitiveness. However, the European states have very different legal frameworks in this field. This book introduces flagship initiatives and provides a detailed overview and analysis of the current standards and latest developments, offering practical insights and guidelines for practitioners and policy-makers alike. Further, as it discusses the main areas of e-regulation, it can serve as a useful platform for university education in light of the growing need for new kinds of specialists, i. e. IT lawyers. The book concentrates on fields that are directly affected by e-regulation such as cyber-security, databases, computer programs, e-governance, IP and competition law and informatics.
Regulating Europe (Routledge Research in European Public Policy)
by Giandomenico MajoneFirst published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Regulating Free Speech in a Digital Age: Hate, Harm and the Limits of Censorship
by David BromellHateful thoughts and words can lead to harmful actions like the March 2019 terrorist attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. In free, open and democratic societies, governments cannot justifiably regulate what citizens think, feel, believe or value, but do have a duty to protect citizens from harmful communication that incites discrimination, active hostility and violence.Written by a public policy advisor for fellow practitioners in politics and public life, this book discusses significant practical and moral challenges regarding internet governance and freedom of speech, particularly when responding to content that is legal but harmful. Policy makers and professionals working for governmental institutions need to strike a fair balance between protecting from harm and preserving the right to freedom of expression. And because merely passing laws does not solve complex social problems, governments need to invest, not just regulate. Governments, big tech and the private sector, civil society, individual citizens and the fourth estate all have roles to play, and counter-speech is everyone’s responsibility.This book tackles hard questions about internet governance, hate speech, cancel culture and the loss of civility, and illustrates principled pragmatism applied to perplexing policy problems. Furthermore, it presents counter-speech strategies as alternatives and complements to censorship and criminalisation.
Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity
by Douglas A. KysarDrawing insight from a diverse array of sources -- including moral philosophy, political theory, cognitive psychology, ecology, and science and technology studies -- Douglas Kysar offers a new theoretical basis for understanding environmental law and policy. He exposes a critical flaw in the dominant policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis, which asks policymakers to, in essence, "regulate from nowhere. " As Kysar shows, such an objectivist stance fails to adequately motivate ethical engagement with the most pressing and challenging aspects of environmental law and policy, which concern how we relate to future generations, foreign nations, and other forms of life. Indeed, world governments struggle to address climate change and other pressing environmental issues in large part because dominant methods of policy analysis obscure the central reasons for acting to ensure environmental sustainability. To compensate for these shortcomings, Kysar first offers a novel defense of the precautionary principle and other commonly misunderstood features of environmental law and policy. He then concludes by advocating a movement toward environmental constitutionalism in which the ability of life to flourish is always regarded as a luxury wecanafford.
Regulating Government Ethics
by Chonghao WuThis book examines government ethics rules and their enforcement in China (as well as in three other jurisdictions for comparative insights). Empirical research methods (involving primarily semi-structured interviews) were employed to explore the dynamics of actual enforcement policies and practices in China. This book formed an analytical framework through reviewing existing theories on government ethics regulation and general regulation literature and analyzing government ethics rules in the US, the UK, and Hong Kong. Using this framework, it seeks to explore the patterns and features of government ethics rules and their enforcement in China. It shows that the inadequacy of government ethics rules per se and the deterrence-oriented criminal enforcement style of government ethics regulation are important but ignored elements of the problem of rampant corruption in China. Such analysis has generated important and practical policy implications for China's government ethics rules and their enforcement.
Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion
by José A. Gómez-IbáñezThis wide-ranging study of urban infrastructure &“offers a series of fascinating arguments&” in favor of market-oriented approaches to regulation (Times Higher Education Supplement). In the 1980s and &‘90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities—such as gas, telephones, and highways—with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But high-profile failures have since raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these: how can government fairly and effectively regulate &“natural monopolies&”—those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical? Mapping out various approaches to regulation, José Gómez-Ibáñez draws on a wealth of case studies, as well as history, politics, and economics. He makes a strong case for favoring market-oriented and contractual approaches over those that grant more discretion to government regulators. He shows how contracts can provide stronger protection for infrastructure customers and suppliers—and greater opportunities to tailor services to their mutual advantage. At the same time, he highlights scenarios where alternative schemes may be needed.