This article discusses the influences of the positivist ideology on urban planning and its consequences on the urban reform movement that, since the country’s democratization, defends the right to the city’s flag. Understanding positivism as an ideology of the bourgeois order, deeply rooted in the modern Brazilian state, the text accompanies its in...
The extraordinary and “last ratio” character that characterizes state coercion determines the procedure of this modality of Law of exception, which does not respond to ordinary conflict resolution procedures between the State and the Autonomous Communities. From the time the requirement is neglected by the President of the Community to the approval...
Aquesta nota aborda el procediment d’aplicació de la intervenció territorial prevista en l’article 155 de la Constitució. L’anàlisi, de caràcter estrictament jurídic, se centra en tres moments: el primer, preparlamentari, que correspon a la iniciativa del Govern de la nació i el requeriment al president de la comunitat autònoma; el segon, parlament...
Do participatory processes produce democratic change as envisaged in normative accounts? Or, on the contrary, do they have negative effects or produce politically innocuous results, as some empirical research suggests? These are critical questions that remain largely unanswered. The potential effects associated with these processes seem boundless. ...
In this article I face one of the actual challenges that is confronting the philosophical reflection: trying to accomplish a believable defense of the moral universalism. I propose a version that attempts to expose two of the greatest normative needs that are conditioning its plausibility and that according to the majority of thoughts it result inc...
