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Political legitimacy rests on the idea of order and justice. But we are all aware of the tenacity with which the legal, rather than sheltering justice serves to conceal situations of injustice that is perpetuated, metamorphosed and naturalized. So the paper tries to join a series of considerations about the idea of justice that arise in contemporaneous philosophy, where it is taken into account its transcendent dimension in contrast with worldly powers and thus, it points to hold a kind of reflection on the public policies based on human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a detailed review of the model of the Community Development Program for Marginalized Urban Areas ZUMAR+FIDEPO (Z+F), a social development program managed by the Ministry of Social and Human Development from the state of Guanajuato, which operates as a public trust. Based on a documentary analysis, it highlights the philosophy and vision, as well as its discourse and how development, participation and intervention has been conceptualized as the structural elements of the program. It also includes a punctual comparison with other similar projects in Chile and Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intention of this paper is to build a methodological route for the study and analysis of the institutional capacity. To understand the institutional capacity is important to explore the following questions: by whom it is exercised?, how does it express?, where is it exercised?, which is the importance of the social actors in the above mentioned capacity?, and what role does it plays the institutional capacity in the public action? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the Human Development Report (l-IDR) of 2002, the discussions carried out by the United Nations about democracy and its effects on human development. In order to do so, a documentary research was carried out to unveil the political meanings of the proposals, strategies and procedures indicated by the UNO for the deepening of democracy. It was verified that there are clear evidence, in the analyzed documents, that there is an increasing social disparity brought and potentialized by the current globalization process, and that it is necessary to find some ways of facing the problems stemmed from the increasing social inequality. However, the HDRS do not deal with the facing of inequality, but with some of its effects. Thus, all strategies are based on fighting absolute poverty, famine, illiteracy, etc.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Latin America, the emphasis on public policy approach has changed, by means of replacing the old positions by technocratic approaches in order to rescue and update the old and never resolved tensions between politics and policies. In contemporary discussions, attention has been given not only in the formulation but also to the political process, recognizing that categories of policies are influenced by the various policy approaches. This paper links the discussions of citizen participation and governance, from a democracy, human rights and development perspective in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]