La commune et forte prégnance de l’Église catholique dans la France d’avant 1789 et dans le Québec d’avant 1960 rend légitime l’analyse comparée de la Révolution française et de la Révolution « tranquille » québécoise, malgré l’éloignement dans le temps et dans l’espace de ces deux ruptures politiques et religieuses. Cette approche donne à voir les...
This chapter examines the impact of globalization on the nation state. It analyses the case for and against the globalization thesis, focusing on the extent to which global economic integration might restrict the parameters of domestic political autonomy. The chapter first distinguishes between the politics of globalization and the globalization of...
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...
This article looks into the problem of the foundation of Greek democracy —5th century BC— by critically analyzing the approaches of two contemporary thinkers in the field of Greek studies, Loraux and Castoriadis, concerning the language used by Athenian democracy and the representa-tions and institutions created by it. The analysis focuses on certa...
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. ...
This chapter examines the impact of globalization on the nation state. It analyses the case for and against the globalization thesis, focusing on the extent to which global economic integration might restrict the parameters of domestic political autonomy. The chapter first distinguishes between the politics of globalization and the globalization of...
With a strong will to critically rethink the myth of the political transition process in post-Franco Spain, the article analyzes, first, the peculiarities of this process in Galicia and the key role played by the cultura; second, we move on to describe the Transitions singularities viewed from the Galician narrative in the context of literary memor...
Depuis son dernier statut de 2004, la Polynésie française est un « pays d'outre-mer » placé sous le régime des collectivités d'outre-mer dotées d'autonomie. Au-delà de sa nature de collectivité décentralisée, elle est devenue une entité politique qui se gouverne et s'identifie par des signes propres, même si sa langue officielle reste le français. ...
Le champ géographique des compétences de l'administration territoriale française va évoluer en 2011 avec la création du 101e département, celui de Mayotte. Cette départementalisation hors de l'hexagone est le fruit d'un long processus politique commencé en 1975 à la date du premier référendum qui allait par la suite séparer Mayotte du reste de l'ar...
