Realizando los derechos. Su filosofía y práctica en América Latina.

Realizando los derechos. Su filosofía y práctica en América Latina.
Author: Rodolfo Arango Rivadeneira
Publisher: Instituto de Estudios Constitucionales del Estado de Querétaro
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 6077822272

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El presente libro unifica un conjunto de ensayos que se agrupan en una doble perspectiva; la justificación filosófica de los derechos y su aplicación en la práctica del constitucionalismo latinoamericano. La primera parte, dedicada a la filosofía de los derechos, se ocupa del concepto de los derechos, en sus modalidades de humanos y fundamentales; de su función en las democracias constitucionales contemporáneas; de diversas formas de concebirlos y de su goce efectivo en una realidad concreta. El objeto de estudio es el lenguaje normativo desde una perspectiva pragmática. ¿Por qué es importante conservar la pretensión de objetividad a la hora de justificar filosóficamente los derechos? ¿Pueden las buenas razones ser suficiente motivación para mover a la acción o para justificar la omisión? ¿Son exigibles vía la coerción organizada en el estado constitucional y democrático de derecho, las actuaciones basadas en buenas razones debidamente justificadas? ¿Es posible determinar objetivamente un mínimo de acciones u omisiones jurídica, moral y políticamente exigibles? ¿En qué afecta la práctica del derecho constitucional e internacional concebir los derechos como principios o fines? Todos estos interrogantes son abordados y discutidos a la luz de la concepción pragmatista de los derechos. La segunda parte reflexiona sobre el estado, las perspectivas y los desafíos del derecho constitucional en América Latina en los últimos dos lustros. Realizar los derechos, sean humanos, constitucionales o fundamentales, exige siempre tener los ojos bien abiertos a la realidad material que se pretende modificar mediante el uso del discurso normativo. El hecho de que los derechos se realicen de forma progresiva, ha llevado equivocadamente a que algunos les atribuyan una supuesta naturaleza “aspiracional”. Tal apreciación no es compartida aquí; su efecto devalúa el carácter normativo de los derechos. Asociar los derechos humanos y fundamentales —en particular los derechos económicos, sociales, culturales y ambientes— a “aspiraciones”, es recaer en una concepción bien sea iusnaturalista, en la que los derechos per se se tiene con independencia de la realidad sociológica, o iuspositivista, que los hace coincidir con acciones con mera relevancia simbólica. El plano normativo viene a complementarse con el plano de la facticidad; los derechos se realizan siempre en un contexto histórico y geográfico concreto, en nuestro caso el discurso y la práctica del derecho constitucional en Latinoamérica, lo que otorga énfasis y marcadores particulares al tratamiento del tema. Como en la literatura, el lector de otras latitudes podrá, si mantiene la menta abierta, encontrar semejanzas y diferencias en la reconstrucción de una práctica cuyo perfeccionamiento trasciende la utilidad local.

Democracy in Mexico

Democracy in Mexico
Author: Pablo González Casanova
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1970
Genre: Mexico
ISBN:

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Weak Courts, Strong Rights

Weak Courts, Strong Rights
Author: Mark Tushnet
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-07-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400828155

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Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the power of the courts but by decreasing it. In Weak Courts, Strong Rights, Mark Tushnet uses a comparative legal perspective to show how creating weaker forms of judicial review may actually allow for stronger social welfare rights under American constitutional law. Under "strong-form" judicial review, as in the United States, judicial interpretations of the constitution are binding on other branches of government. In contrast, "weak-form" review allows the legislature and executive to reject constitutional rulings by the judiciary--as long as they do so publicly. Tushnet describes how weak-form review works in Great Britain and Canada and discusses the extent to which legislatures can be expected to enforce constitutional norms on their own. With that background, he turns to social welfare rights, explaining the connection between the "state action" or "horizontal effect" doctrine and the enforcement of social welfare rights. Tushnet then draws together the analysis of weak-form review and that of social welfare rights, explaining how weak-form review could be used to enforce those rights. He demonstrates that there is a clear judicial path--not an insurmountable judicial hurdle--to better enforcement of constitutional social welfare rights.

Summary Records

Summary Records
Author: Unesco. Executive Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 804
Release: 1989
Genre:
ISBN:

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International Community Psychology

International Community Psychology
Author: Stephanie Reich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2007-07-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387495002

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This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

The New Constitutional Order

The New Constitutional Order
Author: Mark Tushnet
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2009-02-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1400825555

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In his 1996 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton announced that the "age of big government is over." Some Republicans accused him of cynically appropriating their themes, while many Democrats thought he was betraying the principles of the New Deal and the Great Society. Mark Tushnet argues that Clinton was stating an observed fact: the emergence of a new constitutional order in which the aspiration to achieve justice directly through law has been substantially chastened. Tushnet argues that the constitutional arrangements that prevailed in the United States from the 1930s to the 1990s have ended. We are now in a new constitutional order--one characterized by divided government, ideologically organized parties, and subdued constitutional ambition. Contrary to arguments that describe a threatened return to a pre-New Deal constitutional order, however, this book presents evidence that our current regime's animating principle is not the old belief that government cannot solve any problems but rather that government cannot solve any more problems. Tushnet examines the institutional arrangements that support the new constitutional order as well as Supreme Court decisions that reflect it. He also considers recent developments in constitutional scholarship, focusing on the idea of minimalism as appropriate to a regime with chastened ambitions. Tushnet discusses what we know so far about the impact of globalization on domestic constitutional law, particularly in the areas of international human rights and federalism. He concludes with predictions about the type of regulation we can expect from the new order. This is a major new analysis of the constitutional arrangements in the United States. Though it will not be received without controversy, it offers real explanatory and predictive power and provides important insights to both legal theorists and political scientists.

Forest Law

Forest Law
Author: Ursula Biemann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781941789001

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This artist's book accompanies the exhibition of a collaborative project by Swiss artist Ursula Biemann and Brazilian architect Paulo Tavares, presented at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MSU in August 2014. Forest Law is a dynamic visual-textual engagement with the legal, ecological, cosmological and scientific dimensions of the tropical forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon. A trajectory through a transforming landscape, the book illuminates a series of legal cases and indigenous struggles for the rights of nature, incorporating text fragments, video stills and newly designed maps as well as a selection from legal documents, historical archives and other research material. This publication is coupled with the exhibition catalogue The Land Grant: Forest Law.

Un continente en movimiento

Un continente en movimiento
Author: Ingrid Wehr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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Recoge una selección de trabajos que investigan el fenómeno migratorio interno e internacional del continente americano, durante el siglo XX, el cual otrora receptor de inmigrantes se ha transformado en una región expulsora de migrantes.