“The greatest change that has occurred during Macron’s presidency is the polarisation of the French political system,” says Gilles Ivaldi, a researcher in politics at the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po in Paris, France. Ivaldi explains that Macron seized the centre-ground of French politics. “Because of that, he’s weakened all the pre...
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On the campaign trail and at his inauguration, Joe Biden pledged, above all else, to be a uniter to restore the soul of America. At the end of his first year in office, many campaign promises have been met, but unity has not been one. Far from transcending partisanship as promised, Biden has embraced the levers of presidential discretion and power ...
After gaining independence on November 11, 1918, Poland faced many challenges. The state was a creation formed of the combined territories of the Prussian, Austrian and Russian partitions, which for 123 years were subordinated to different legal systems of the partitioning states. Independent Poland quickly had to work out the foundations for its o...
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Early assessments of Trump’s White House portrayed an organization riven by personality disputes and administrative chaos. But in many ways, Trump’s White House staff descriptively bears a strong resemblance to its predecessors, as we demonstrate by drawing on more than 50 years of data on presidential staff composition. In terms of size, structure...
In November 2020, the Congress of the Republic of Peru decided to vacateMartín Vizcarra. As a result, Manuel Merino de Lama, president of Congress at thetime, came to power. Faced with this event, many citizens, from different parts ofthe national territory, expressed their discontent and went out to protest and march.This situation affected the po...
The objective of the research is specified in the documentary analysis from a legal perspective of the different normative bodies that sustain the state of exception. The powers of exception that the President has assumed circumscribe the suspension of certain constitutional rights by the covid19. The present research work was carried out from the ...
One of the most emblematic cases of violence in recent Colombian history is the event known as the massacre of Bojayá, which took place on 2 May 2002. The article traces, documents, and periodizes the place of the Bojayá massacre in the narrative created by the Presidency of the Republic between May 2002 and May 2017. On the basis of the analysis o...
This article aims to locate the normative origins of the semi-presidential government in the theoretical contribution of German thinker Max Weber. I argue that Weberian reasoning about the Head of State, when freed from the German background in which it arose, may shed light on how semi-presidentialism can be justified in other national contexts no...
The article analyzes the evolution of the number of presidential candidates in Colombia in the period 1974-2018. The starting point is a contextualized neo-institutionalist approach that considers that the number of candidates varies depending on the electoral rules and the socio-political dynamics of the period. It is a case study that analyzes in...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the representation of the current female presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren in two american newspapers. The representation of Elizabeth Warren in the media is being related to the masculinity norm of the presidency. The aim with the study is to create understanding for how implicit biases about gende...
