Este artículo se propone releer la autoridad desde una perspectiva tradicionalmente antiautoritaria como la anarquista y, en concreto, desde el pensamiento de Bakunin. Para ello, se reflexiona desde unos textos poco estudiados del anarquista ruso y se muestra que, pese a sus críticas a la autoridad, no la quiso abolir sino repensar y transformar. L...
Este artículo analiza la promulgación en México de la reforma electoral de 1963, interesante caso de apertura política controlada implementada por el régimen autoritario posrevolucionario entonces imperante en el país, considerado aquí el antecedente más lejano de la transición democrática mexicana, operada a finales del siglo xx. El presente texto...
The article studies the relations between civil society and the Venezuelan authoritarian regime, taking into account the latter’s hegemonic ambitions, its strategies to control social life, and the forms of resistance or adaptation of the civil society organizations facing this hegemonic impulse. Society’s ability to halt progress toward full autho...
The beginning of the 21st century has been marked by the rise of governments with authoritarian colorations in several Western countries, from Eastern Europe to the Americas. We start from an analysis of the central hypothesis of Levitsky and Ziblatt’s (2018) work “How Democracies Die”, which, upon witnessing the arrival to power of Donald Trump, a...
The Brazilian elections of 2018, 2020, and 2022 were marked by aggressive and violent (mainly speech) acts coming from candidates and reproduced by voters. Such acts often had the object of attacking the opposing ideological field in the intention of getting votes and engagement. But, are such discursive strategies effective? In an attempt to answe...
We discuss the recent development of Cuban civil society, characterized by restrictions arising from the current post-totalitarian regime and the emergen-ce of new identities and demands. Data derived from two series of interviews with officials, activists and academics, made at two moments of the Cuban current political process: the governments of...
We analyze the determinants of Jair Bolsonaro’s electoral victory in the brazilian presidential election in 2018, through the description of his political trajectory and electoral campaign, a theoretical discussion and data analysis. A quantitative technique is used for a multivariate analysis of data extracted from the 2018 Brazilian Electoral Sur...
This article aims to analyze the legitimacy of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, considering the historical pillars of legitimization of the crown and its current situation. The research is addressed through a qualitative approach while the hypothetical-deductive method is used by formulating a guiding question and establishing...
The aftermath of the Second Vatican Council saw the emergence of theopolitical imagination defending both radical conservative and progressive views. This article studies two such experiments, namely, Marcel Lefebvre’s rejection of the Council and liberation theology’s yearning for a solution, here and now, of poverty, understood as a sign of the K...
