Search

This paper discusses the relationship between the characteristics assumed by the public administration and changes in the democratic model from 1958 until the second millennium in Venezuela. Methodologically, four stages are distinguished from the characteristics assumed by democracy. 1. Democracy of the big parties and the model of import substitution, political representation and administrative centralization (1961); 2. Formally participatory and administratively decentralized democracy 1990), 3; people's and populist democracy with military base and administrative recentralization (1999); 4). Competitive authoritarianism. It is concluded that there is a significantly political relationship between the model of democracy and the models of public administration assumed in the model of the Venezuelan democratic regime, there are authoritarian changes from the periphery to the center as the institutional model went into crisis until its political breakin in 2018. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present the different approaches from the political theory on the implementation in Venezuela of a totalitarian regime. It is concluded that it began with a form of delegative democracy, from 2005, which degenerated into a competitive authoritarian system (2012 onwards), to finally become a totalitarian system, based on the conflict of powers between the Supreme Court of Justice and the National Assembly, with the weakening and annihilation of the rule of law. The actions of the illegitimate Supreme Court of Justice, not only inconstitutionally invaded exclusive powers of the National Assembly, blocking the proper functions of it, based principally of ideological characters more than in the law, which led the establishment of a purely electoral democracy, with totalitarian aspects, with the imposition and implementation of a Spurious Constituent Assembly, that continuously modifies the Constitutional text in order to benefit the will of the current ruler, in this case of study, Nicolás Maduro. In this way, citizens are violated their right to choose, undermining popular sovereignty, such as completely undermine the electoral mandate expressed on December 6, 2015 and the principles of integral democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to propose guidelines to achieve sustainability and rural development buffalo agro-ecosystems, based on a critical analysis of approaches exist to address sustainable rural development, conceptual aspects to generate sustainability and bubaline context of livestock in Latin America and Venezuela. The best address the buffalo agro-ecosystems approach is the interaction between society and nature. From the analysis of the conceptual aspects it can be inferred that the cognitive ability of farmers from the ecological point of view, can mean a trigger point to create change. The context of Latin America and National reflect a favorable outlook for buffalo farming. The suggested guidelines are around establish mechanisms for regulating the flow of materials and energy level of the buffalo agro-ecosystems, to strengthen the cognitive abilities of farmers and the need to level of government to change the vision of infrastructure for rural development. With these guidelines the buffalo agro-ecosystems may have a high potential to become sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, reasons of postponing motherhood by professional young women are explored and related with changes of course in their biographies, especially with those sociologically associated with individualization, by means a qualitative research on this demographic group in Caracas (Venezuela) and Santiago (Chile). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout the 1940 and 1950 decades, the foreign oil companies in Venezuela published institutional magazines like key tools to manage the public and labour relations with employees and the community. Within the issues considered, these publications focused an special interest at the women issues. This paper pretend to study how was the discursive construction of woman and her role in companies and communities. The corpus considered some editions of two most important publications –Tópicos Shell, El Farol– y were analyzed with the lexical and actantial analytical schemes developed by Molero de Cabeza (1985, 1998) and Franco (1998). The analysis permitted us to observe how the foreign oil companies –in the context of the venezuelan modernization– contributed to sexual socialization through the reinforce of values associated to specific sexual mythology that emphasize wife-lover and mother images in the context of fem-ism of the considered decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a study of the theoretical framework employed in the study of the social representation of lower class housing constructed by the Venezuelan government, and refers to institutional discourse. In the study, the importance of the rationality of the capitalist state in relation to the construction of these social representations is considered. In the same vein, the theory of representations related to social representations of construction on the part of social subjects is examined, specifying this concept in relation to the social representation of housing on the part of the Venezuelan state. Theoretical references are constructed as to public policy, associating it with capitalist rationality and the theory of social representations. In this manner, a theoretical review of the principal authors who touch on these aspects is made. The conclusion is that the social representation of lower class housing and public policy is profoundly related to the capitalist rationality inherent in the Venezuelan government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]