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2. Measuring Democracy through Expert Judgments: Lessons from Argentina's Survey of Experts on Provincial Politics.
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Gervasoni, Carlos
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POLITICAL doctrines , *DEMOCRACY , *COMPARABILITY (Accounting) , *NEUTRALITY ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper analyzes several key advantages and disadvantages of measuring regimes through the judgment of experts. Using results from the Survey of Experts on Provincial Politics carried out by the author to assess levels of democracy in the 24 provinces of Argentina, the paper discusses the following advantages: 1) the possibility to assess many and diverse dimensions of democracy, 2) the particular aptitude of the method to identify hybrid regimes, a regime type of increasing prominence that poses special measurement challenges, and 3) the possibility to estimate measurement reliability through inter-rater (or inter-expert) agreement statistics. Two disadvantages are discussed: 1) the problems of comparability brought about by relying on unit-specific (i.e., provincespecific): there may be systematic inter-provincial differences among the experts in terms of knowledge, neutrality, and evaluative standards, and 2) the inevitable inter-unit differences in levels of measurement error. Finally, the dimensions of democracy measured by the expert survey are compared to objective indicators of democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
3. Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Tools in Conditional Cash Transfers Programs: Evidence for Argentina.
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López Mourelo, Elva and Escudero, Verónica
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CONDITIONAL cash transfer programs , *LABOR market , *PUBLIC welfare , *INCOME , *HOUSEHOLD surveys ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
Summary This paper examines the impact of the program Seguro de Capacitación y Empleo (SCE) implemented to provide support in skills upgrading, job seeking, and job placement to eligible beneficiaries of the Argentinian conditional cash transfer program Plan Jefes . The SCE is an example of a growing trend observed in Latin America, where labor activation components have been increasingly included into cash transfers programs to support beneficiaries in finding more stable income opportunities. Despite this growing trend, not enough is known regarding the effectiveness of these components, especially on job quality. In this context, this paper sheds light on whether the provision of a comprehensive package of active labor market measures contributes to a successful labor market integration of cash transfers beneficiaries. Taking advantage of the panel structure of the Permanent Household Survey and exploiting the time variation in the assignment of the program as identification strategy, we apply difference-in-difference estimators to measure the impact on a number of labor market indicators. We find that the program affects positively the job quality of participants by increasing the probability of having a formal job and raising hourly wages. Moreover, the intervention is associated with a lower probability of having a low-paid job and working an excessive number of hours. These effects are, however, not homogeneous across all groups of participants. While the program is more successful among the younger beneficiaries, it does not contribute to an improvement in the labor market conditions of female beneficiaries, who in fact are the majority of SCE participants. Our results suggest that reducing dependency on monetary transfers through programs, such as the SCE, that are rich in activation components is beneficial for participants’ labor market trajectories and therefore, it constitutes a satisfactory exit strategy to more universal cash transfer programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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4. Coalition Formation, Cross-voting and Legislative Success: A Model of Presidential Policymaking with Application to Argentina.
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Saiegh, Sebastian M.
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LEGISLATIVE bodies , *DEMOCRACY , *ELECTIONS , *LEGISLATIVE bills ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
In most contemporary democracies governments play a dominant role in the law-making process, as they introduce a significant proportion of bills to the legislature. However, the probability of success of these bills varies considerably. For example, in Argentina, the number of government bills approved as a percentage of all government-sponsored bills introduced in the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1996 amounts to an average 64 percent(including and a minimum of 49% in 1986 and a maximum of 80% in the previous year). This paper studies how cross-voting affect governments' legislative success. I argue that uncertainty about legislators' support for government bills and limited governmental resources to engage in "vote buying" explain why defeats occur. The paper shows that Argentine presidents' overall legislative success has not been very different from other presidential regimes. However, by looking at the content of those bills that never made it through congress, I identify a peculiar policymaking pattern that may account for Argentine governments’ poor performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
5. "Carry our colours and defend our interests under the skies of other Continents". Argentinian Commercial aviation policy in the Peronista decade (1945–55).
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Piglia, Melina
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COMMERCIAL aeronautics , *WORLD War II , *AIR forces , *HISTORY of industrialization , *GOVERNMENT business enterprises , *HISTORY ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
In the context of the challenges posed by the end of the Second World War and the early post-war period, the Argentinian governments foresaw aviation as a pillar of its national and international presence. Argentina created the Air Force, nationalised ground aerial infrastructures, placed domestic flights under state control and in 1950, all Argentinian airlines were nationalised and merged into a single state-owned enterprise: Aerolíneas Argentinas. Meanwhile, Argentinian leadership aggressively negotiated bilateral agreements. This paper analyses aviation policy (both domestic and international) of the first Peronista decade from 1945 to 1955, framing it as a response to limit USA expansion into South America, building Argentinian hegemony in the region and consolidating the ongoing process of industrialisation and economic autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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6. Estrategias de desplazamientos discursivos en cuerpos de oposición parlamentaria en Argentina.
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Humberto Guzmán, Víctor and Sgró Ruata, Candelaria
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PARLIAMENTARY practice , *CITIZENSHIP , *DEMOCRACY , *POLITICAL participation ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This article analyzes the Argentinan parliamentary opposition in legal reform debates between 2009 and 2010, that searched to extend rights concerning to communicative and sexual citizenship in that country. From analysis of interventions in the Congress' voting sessions, the paper proposes two categories to describe strategies of displacement of the parliamentary opposition: displacements by procedures flaws and displacements by political feuds. Both categories group discursive operations that question the democratic institutions based on external factors, displace the object of legislative debate and seek the annulment of parliamentary debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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7. El neoliberalismo como trama ideológica en la Argentina reciente.
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Lucas Prestifilippo, Agustín and Wegelin, Lucía
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NEOLIBERALISM , *IDEOLOGY , *MERITOCRACY , *POLITICAL systems , *EQUALITY ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper intends to contribute to the critique of Neoliberal Ideology, assuming that a new political situation claims to attend the ideological aspect in which Neoliberalism never stopped producing effects. The paper interrogates that level in which subjectivities are affected by Neoliberalism as Ideology, by identifying four central ideological cores: Justification of inequality, Meritocracy, Technocratism and Ideology of Life’s Flexibility. Through the analysis of the results of a survey and certain public discourses we propose to observe the extension and articulation of these cores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
8. El nuevo debate sobre el populismo y sus raíces en la transición democrática: el caso argentino.
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Aboy Carlés, Gerardo
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POPULISM , *DEMOCRATIZATION , *CITIZENSHIP , *DEMOCRACY , *TWENTY-first century , *TWENTIETH century ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper examines the concerns which have led to the new wave of studies on populism in Argentina, focusing more on the debate surrounding the establishment of a new institutional framework typical of the 1980s than on the proliferation of 21st-century popular governments in South America. The typical characteristics and problems encountered in these studies are explained, and the defining features of the populist experience in 20th-century Argentina are analyzed by drawing comparisons with other populist processes in the region. Finally, the paper analyzes how certain features persist in the new political order, while others have gone through complete transformations since it was established in 1983. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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9. Democracy and Redistribution in Historical Perspective: Argentina, 1880-1950.
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Elis, Roy
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DEMOCRATIZATION , *DEMOCRACY , *PER capita , *SOCIAL structure , *PUBLIC spending , *HISTORY ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
In this paper I argue that democratization (suffrage expansion, multiparty competition and the secret ballot) is neither sufficient nor necessary for generating fiscal redistribution (tax burden, progressivity of the tax structure, redistributive government spending). I offer a simple model of democratization as the result of intra-elite conflict that explains why this might be the case. I provide empirical evidence consistent with the model using detailed national and subnational data for the case of Argentina (1880-1950), which I collected during 10 months of archival research. Despite the fact that Argentina enjoyed per capita wealth on par with Canada, was ethnically more homogeneous that the United States, and did not suffer from the landlord-peasant social structure typical of other Latin American countries, the period of democratic rule (1912-1930) did not usher in redistributive taxation and spending as predicted by the workhorse median-voter models. Democratization caused horizontal redistribution across provinces rather than from rich to poor citizens. Strangely, taxation became more progressive and redistributive spending increased with the military coup of 1931. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
10. Gender Quotas and Women's Substantive Representation: Lessons from Argentina.
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Franceschet, Susan and Piscopo, Jennifer
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WOMEN in politics , *POLITICIANS , *PRACTICAL politics ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper integrates the comparative literature on gender quotas with the existing body of research on womenâs substantive representation. Quota laws, which bring greater numbers of women into parliaments, are frequently assumed to improve womenâs substantive representation. We use the Argentine case, where a law mandating a thirty percent gender quota was adopted in 1991, to show that quotas can affect substantive representation in contradictory and unintended ways. To do so, we disaggregate womenâs substantive representation into two distinct concepts: substantive representation as process, where women change the legislative agenda, and substantive representation as outcome, where female legislators succeed in passing womenâs rights laws in the congress. We argue that quota laws complicate both aspects of substantive representation. Quotas generate mandates for female legislators to represent womenâs interests, while also reinforcing negative stereotypes about womenâs capacities as politicians. Our case combines data from bill introduction and legislative success from 1989-2007 with data from 54 interviews conducted in 2005 and 2006. We use this evidence to demonstrate that representation depends on the institutional environment, itself shaped by quotas. Institutions and norms simultaneously facilitate and obstruct womenâs substantive representation. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
11. Clientelism and the middle class: Results of a survey experiment in Argentina.
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Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca
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PATRONAGE , *MIDDLE class , *POLITICAL participation , *VOTERS , *VOTING ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
Are middle class voters likely to punish incumbent politicians who rely on clientelism? In this paper, I analyze data from an original survey experiment in Argentina and find evidence that middle class respondents who receive information about an incumbent's use of clientelism are less likely to support that incumbent as a result. This contrasts with the behavior of the poor voters in the sample; information about clientelism does not appear to affect their anticipated voting behavior. Even though poor voters are overwhelmingly the targets of clientelist exchange, these findings point to the importance of considering the attitudes and behavior of middle class voters in explanations of clientelism. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
12. Social Spending and Clientelism: The Case fo the Argentinean "Plan Jefes de Hogar Desocupados".
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Garriga, Ana Carolina
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PUBLIC welfare , *PUBLIC spending , *SOCIAL services ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
What are the determinants of spending on social welfare programs (‘social spending’) by central governments within democratic regimes? By analyzing the case of the Argentinean Plan Jefes de Hogar Desocupados, the proposed paper aims to illuminate existent linkages between social spending and electoral interests. I analyze the factors that influence the allocation of social spending across provinces -what explains regional variance on national social expenditure in democratic regimes? ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
13. Social Spending and Clientelism: The Case of the Argentinean "Plan Jefes de Hogar Desocupados".
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Garriga, Ana Carolina
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PUBLIC welfare , *PUBLIC spending , *SOCIAL services ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
What are the determinants of spending on social welfare programs (‘social spending’) by central governments within democratic regimes? By analyzing the case of the Argentinean Plan Jefes de Hogar Desocupados, the proposed paper aims to illuminate existent linkages between social spending and electoral interests. I analyze the factors that influence the allocation of social spending across provinces -what explains regional variance on national social expenditure in democratic regimes? ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
14. Provincial Machine Politics and Party Government in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.
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Jones, Mark P. and Wonjae Hwang
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POLITICAL parties , *LEGISLATIVE bodies , *POLITICAL systems ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
In this paper we utilize theories originally developed to explain US congressional organization to analyze legislative organization in Argentina [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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15. Pollution in the Garden of the Argentine Republic: Building State Capacity to Escape from Chaotic Regulation*.
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Amengual, Matthew
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ENVIRONMENTAL regulations , *GOVERNMENT regulation , *CIVIL society , *ECONOMIC development ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
Environmental regulation in middle-income and developing countries is often viewed with high degrees of pessimism. Although many countries have adopted protective laws, violations are widespread and institutions are weak. This paper analyzes the puzzle of shifting patterns of environmental regulation in Argentina, a country with widespread institutional weakness. Most regulators in Argentina take a firefighting approach, acting only when skirmishes emerge between communities and firms. Amidst regulatory chaos, improvements in the environmental performance of firms are few, and noncompliance remains the norm. However, in the province of Tucumán, the pattern of regulation shifted, and officials began to systematically enforce regulations. This paper traces shifts in patterns of enforcement back to broad pressures that provoked industry and environmentalists to support increases in the internal and external components of state regulatory capacity. The analysis uncovers political dynamics that can contribute to strengthening the institutions necessary for sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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16. Fases del kirchnerismo: de la ruptura a la afirmación particularista.
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Cantamutto, Francisco J.
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POLITICAL systems , *POPULISM , *PARTICULARISM (Political science) , *POWER (Social sciences) , *AGRICULTURAL policy ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper analyzes Kirchnerism as a populist political process. Using specific literature, it is possible to reconstruct the change in the political and social alliances of the government, marked by the conflict with the agricultural fraction of the bloc in power in 2008. This conflict caused a change in the emphasis on the political strategy of the government, which modified its discourse and alliances. On this basis, the article proposes a periodization of the process in two stages, changing from the populist rupture to a particularistic affirmation of the Kirchnerist identity. The article shows in detail the new features of the political order after 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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17. ¿HAY DOS PRESIDENTES EN ARGENTINA? UN ANÁLISIS COMPARATIVO DEL APOYO LEGISLATIVO EN LAS POLÍTICAS EXTERIOR Y DOMÉSTICA (2001-2014).
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FELIÚ RIBEIRO, PEDRO and URDINEZ, FRANCISCO
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PRESIDENTS , *GOVERNMENT policy , *POLITICAL systems , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper makes two contributions to the classical thesis in American Political Science on the existence of "two presidents", as applied to the Argentine case. Analyzing rollcall votes for the recent period, we confirm the validity of the thesis in a markedly presidential and multiparty system. Furthermore, comparing international and domestic legislative topics, we analyze which factors affect the legislative support received by the president. Using robust regressions, we find that popular approval is positively associated with the level of support that the president received for domestic but not international initiatives. The use of Necessity and Urgency Decrees, the economy's performance, the ideological polarization between the parties in Congress, and the chamber in which the initiative is submitted are all variables that affect legislative support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
18. LA REFORMA POLÍTICA EN DEBATE. ANÁLISIS DE LAS ÚLTIMAS REFORMAS POLÍTICO-ELECTORALES (DISCUTIDAS Y/O CELEBRADAS) EN LA ARGENTINA.
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Gallo, Adriana
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POLITICAL reform , *DEMOCRATIZATION , *POLITICAL systems , *REPRESENTATIVE government ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This research will analyze the last two political- electoral reforms carried out and/or under discussion in Argentina: the first, promoted by the Kirchnerist government, sanctioned in 2009, and the second, promoted by the Macrist government, debated throughout 2016 and still under legislative treatment. In this paper, we propose a critical reading of both Political Reform projects, first setting forth the assessment that preceded each one, then reviewing the arguments that have supported each proposal. Subsequently, we will analyze in detail the content of both reforms, pointing out the concrete effects of the clauses (real in the first case and possible in the second), theoretically outlined or incorporated with each one. Thus, through the evaluation of the three elections celebrated since the enactment of the first law, we will consider that the objectives set forth with its enactment were not achieved. But, at the same time, there is no evidence -based on recent international experience- that the proposals included in the new project will lead to this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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19. LAS SEÑALES DEL COMPROMISO: MOVILIZACIÓN POLÍTICA, MANIFESTACIONES PÚBLICAS DE APOYO Y ACTOS PARTIDARIOS EN LA ARGENTINA.
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SZWARCBERG, MARIELA
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POLITICAL movements , *POLITICAL parties , *MASS mobilization , *PUBLIC demonstrations , *PARTISANSHIP ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper provides an alternative causal mechanism to explain why parties monitor voters. The ability to monitor voters, defined as a clientelistic party's capacity to convince voters that it can identify the candidate(s) for whom they voted, remains a core assumption in the literature. The underlying logic of the argument is that if clientelistic parties cannot monitor voters, they run the risk of voters taking the goods with one hand and voting with the other. Instead of focusing on commitment, I argue that monitoring makes clientelism work by forcing voters to publicly signal their electoral support before getting to the voting booth. Using empirical evidence from Argentina, this article shows how parties mobilize and monitor voters before elections to avoid the costs of verifying their electoral choices on an individual basis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
20. PROYECTOS URBANOS DIFUNDIDOS POR LA PRENSA DURANTE LOS GOBIERNOS LENCINISTAS, MENDOZA. VISIONES SOBRE LA VIVIENDA PARA LA CHUSMA DE ALPARGATAS.
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CREMASCHI, Verónica
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URBAN renewal , *POPULISM , *SOCIAL change , *LOW-income housing , *PUBLIC spaces , *WORKING class , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper focuses on different urban and architectural projects, as viewed by the local press during Lencinas' administrations, a member of the Radical political party in the Mendoza province who was active from 1918 to 1930. Among the corpus of projects, we focus specifically on public spaces and housing for the low-income population, which became a significant point of attention in the first decade of the 20th century. The political change brought about by the arrival to power of nontraditional, underrepresented groups had an impact on different cultural fields in Mendoza. Lencina's arrival to power fostered social transformations that benefited the low-income social strata that had been neglected by previous governing elites. Among other changes, the new leaders implemented laws that favored the working class, such as retirement for public employees, and the 8-hour work day. These shifts in the political sphere had an impact on the architectural and spatial spheres. In this paper we systematically trace articles published in the contemporary local press in order to establish relationships between some of these projects and the populist political ideology of these governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
21. ¿Estás nervioso? Las elecciones desde una villa del Gran Buenos Aires.
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Cecilia Ferraudi Curto, María
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ELECTIONS & society , *SQUATTER settlements , *ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore Great Buenos Aires's politics analyzing midterm elections (2009) from my ethnography in a shantytown of La Matanza under a process of urbanization. I will try to show some outlooks which are usually darkened by electoral analyses. While these researches usually focus on campaign strategies and political networks in order to explain (or predict) electoral results, the main contribution of this paper is to show how elections are generally imposed and locally appropriated from a local perspective oriented towards the urbanization of the shantytown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
22. Insumos para una gestión intersectorial de políticas públicas: movilidad y acceso.
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Gutiérrez, Andrea
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PUBLIC health , *LOCAL transit access , *MATERNAL health services , *HEALTH services accessibility , *SOCIAL & economic rights , *GOVERNMENT policy ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
The objective of this paper is to integrate mobility as across component of the management of specific public actions. The case of study concerns the public health services in Argentina, and mother's mobility conditions in the suburban of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. In terms of methodology, the paper working on the concept of access trying to identify, measure and evaluate the relationship between mobility conditions and maternal health care. Access is weighted according to the realization of health services, and not according to the arrival at the places where they are offers. The result is innovative empirical evidence, useful as an indicator to make more relevant the role of mobility within the public agenda of transport and others specific sectors, asa basic social right behind the access that requires coordinated actions and cross-sectoral approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
23. REFORMA EDUCATIVA EN CÓRDOBA EN LOS '90 ¿UNA PROPUESTA DE ORGANIZACIÓN DEL TRABAJO DOCENTE BASADA EN LA FLEXIBILIDAD? INTERPELACIONES GUBERNAMENTALES AL PAPEL DEL DOCENTE Y A LAS PRÁCTICAS DE LAS INSTITUCIONES EDUCATIVAS.
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Floresta, M. Paola
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EDUCATION research , *SCHOOL administration , *EFFECTIVE teaching , *TEACHING methods , *LECTURES & lecturing , *PARLIAMENTARY practice ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper is part of a more comprehensive study in which I focus on teaching practice conflicts in Cordoba during the 90's, in the context of state reforms. Within this framework, on one hand I am interested in showing the real nature of official and pedagogic discourse around the educative reform; on the other hand, to discusse and leave open the possibility of thinking that there was a displacement of logical organization of the business sector to the educative area and also that the use of philosophical assumptions of onhism were being applied to other work areas. This factor had also a great influence on educative sphere as a part of global transformation and in consequence, it influenced national and provincial government discourse around that reform. Finally, this paper aims to suggest deeper analysis to follow on how those discourses were received among teachers, and the individual or collective resistance that they might have generated. This article points to answer three questions: Did the national and provincial government discourse about this educative reform point to change the organization of the teaching job and the teacher's profile? In what sense did they do that? And how did the teachers receive those government interpellations? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
24. La vida política de los instrumentos. Imágenes y prácticas de los sectores subalternos en el Neuquén de la primera mitad del siglo XX.
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Gallucci, Lisandro
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PATRONAGE , *SOCIAL classes , *TWENTIETH century ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This article deals with the forms of political action of subaltern people in a particular space of peripheral Argentina: Neuquenian municipalities of the first half of the 20th Century. Even when national territories were excluded from the federal political system, the recreation in these spaces of some of the so called creole politics provides an opportunity to explore the complexity of political clientelism in those decades of Argentinian history. Furthermore, this paper pays attention to interactions between local elites and the inferior members of the clientships, observing the ways in which the latter were represented, thus shaping the relationships that both sectors kept between them. Albeit subaltern sectors of territorial Neuquen did not consolidate themselves as an autonomous political actor, it is interesting to call attention over the negotiations they were capable to maintain with local political elites. It is suggested in this paper that clientelistic practices, as the explanations constructed on them did so, contributed to shape some of the features of the Argentinian political culture of that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
25. ¿Una nueva fragmentación social? Estado y clases sociales objetivas y subjetivas en la Argentina de la década del 2000.
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Pla, Jésica Lorena
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SOCIAL classes , *SOCIAL disorganization , *SOCIAL mobility , *STATE, The ,ARGENTINE social conditions ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper presents the outputs of a research in which stratification, social classes and social mobility are approached from a perspective that incorporates the perceptions of the subjects regarding to the forms of construction of a symbolic normality about this issues during contemporary Argentina. In the last decade Argentina characterized itself by a model of state intervention that is consolidated in 2007, and establishes a new link between labor and social policies. This new relationship comes into tension with the neoliberal ideology of individualization, typical of the neoliberal decade, the nineties. To do so, it involves two theoretical perspectives, and a strategy that combines quantitative and qualitative techniques. The quantitative approach allowed us to describe trends that characterize social mobility and social stratification processes, which contextualize this article. The qualitative approach allowed us to analyze perceptions of one's position in the social structure (Echeverria Zabalza, 1999). The biographical method was used. Life stories addressed through thematic analysis (and not the story of life as a unit in itself) from a comparative perspective (Bertaux, 1994; 2005). In this line, we reconstructed the perceptions that the subjects that make up different paths class enunciate and construct discursively, as far as mechanisms of state intervention concerned, and particularly the way in which these utterances are related to perceptions about one's place in the social structure and the potential of that space, differentially with others. Our conclusions claim that the break of the neoliberal consensus regarding forms of state intervention was not necessarily hand to hand by a one of values and principles on which the society organized the common Life, and built explanations and justifications about social inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
26. Migración y políticas públicas desde el margen. Acciones y omisiones estatales en un parque de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
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CANELO, Brenda
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IMMIGRANTS , *IMMIGRANT policy , *IMMIGRATION policy , *ETHNOLOGY , *ETHNIC neighborhoods , *ETHNIC groups ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
In this paper I propose to address the treatment of international migration by the State. In order to do so, I analyze public policies which do not focus on the subject but which impact strongly on the foreign population. Thus, I seek to shed light on logics which may obviate and/or contradict the ones established in migration laws. Such logics become evident when research is conducted from the social and symbolic margins of the State, working with a broad conceptualization of public policies. I exemplify the contributions made by this perspective with the analysis of four policies implemented by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 2004 and 2014 in the Parque Indoamericano Villa Soldati, area with one of the highest percentages of migrant population residing in this city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
27. PLANES DE CAMPAÑA Y SEGURIDAD CIUDADANA EN LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES (1984-2011).
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Costantino, Gabriel
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NATIONAL security , *CITIZENSHIP , *POLICE , *SECURITY management , *SOCIAL history ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
For over a decade, social and political scientists stress the centrality of citizen security policies within the political dynamics of the province of Buenos Aires. In general, the literature emphasizes that the Buenos Aires police is an organization with a high capacity to become autonomous and carry out security policies according to their interests, often illegal and repressive. However, recent research has emphasized the dependence of the police operation of political and social terms. In this context, the aim of the paper is to analyze which actors have the ability to influence the formulation of security policies and how. The central hypothesis of this work consider that governors are the actors with capacities and interests to pursue a policy of security of left or right according to their plan of campaign, which responds to other factors which are not the alleged police interests: mainly the ideology of the national executive and the location of the median voter. The corroboration of this hypothesis instructs on the strategic game behind securities policies and the relative autonomy of the police and the penal system in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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28. La digitalización de la política y la vuelta de lo televisivo. El caso de los candidatos argentinos en Facebook.
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Slimovich, Ana
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MASS media & politics , *POLITICIANS , *DIGITAL media , *SEMIOTICS , *TWENTY-first century ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
The crisis in mass media and the emergence of internet based media have generated mutations in political discourses. In this paper we will focus on the study of one aspect of the digitalization of politics: media interaction. We use tools of socio-semiotics, the mediatization of politics theory and theories of new media. The corpus consists of accounts in Facebook of the candidates for president in the election of 2011 in Argentina. Our hypothesis is that digital politics discursivities involve operations of apropiation of television discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
29. Políticas sociales, cuerpos y emociones a principios del siglo XIX en Argentina.
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Cena, Rebeca Beatriz
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EMOTIONS , *POVERTY , *GOVERNMENT policy , *POOR people , *CAPITALISM , *NINETEENTH century , *SOCIAL policy ,ARGENTINE history ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
In this paper I will discuss —from an approach that recovers the sociology of the body and emotions— the first actions in the field of social policy in Argentina in the early nineteenth century, conducted by the Charitable Society of the Capital. From a qualitative analysis of secondary data, I will discuss the impact that government intervention possesses in terms of certain assumptions related to how the beneficiaries of social policies should behave. It is concluded that governmental interventions together with the regime of capitalist accumulation presuppose a set of emotions and sensitivities related to living in an abject deprivation condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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30. ¿De qué deporte hablamos cuando se busca la inclusión social y educativa? Un análisis de sus significados en un programa de política socioeducativa en Argentina, 2004-2011.
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Levoratti, Alejo
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PHYSICAL education , *EDUCATION , *SPORTS , *SPORTS & state , *SPORTS & society ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
From a constructivist approach, in this paper we analize the emergence of sport as a tool for social and educative inclusion in a social policy program related to education in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, between 2004 and 2011. From the analysis of different sources of information, public presentations and interviews to main public officials of the program Patios Abiertos en las Escuelas, we inquire into the basis that the different actors report and enable the incorporation of sport to achieve the inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
31. El experimento del Bicentenario: las políticas pacifistas de Argentina, 2003-2011 (versión de febrero de 2011, con un seguimiento de la situación experimental descripta en el documento de trabajo N° 426 de julio de 2010).
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Escudé, Carlos
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GOVERNMENT policy , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *INTERNATIONAL security ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This is a follow-up report on the unilateral disarmament experiment described in our working paper # 426 of July 2010. After the 2001-02 crisis, despite the heavy military expenditures and arms procurements of its neighbors, Chile and Brazil, Argentina accentuated a policy of unilateral disarmament that had begun in the '90s. The South American historical record shows that the region is less war prone than Europe, Asia and Africa, and Argentina`s successive governments have not manifested a special concern over the growing disparity in military capabilities. The scenario approximates an experimental situation. Will history falsify or consolidate the hypothesis that a South American country like Argentina can safely disregard its defence vis-à-vis its neighbours? Or put in the opposite terms, will history show that realist theory of international relations does not apply to inter-Latin American relations? These were the research questions posed by our July 2010 paper, which bore the title "Un experimento pacifista: las políticas exteriores y de seguridad de Argentina en el siglo XXI". The present report reviews some immediate consequences of Argentina's unilateral disarmament. The surprising fact is that although neither Chile nor Brazil have taken advantage of Argentina's defenceless situation, Bolivian forces have invaded its territory at least twice. Furthermore, since Argentina does not buy arms, it is unattractive as a customer, and President Obama has decided to skip it in his forthcoming visit to Brazil and Chile, a fact that entails domestic political costs for the Argentine government. The author argues that because of the contents of educational curricula, territorial disputes are popular in Latin America. He hypothesizes that the Bolivian incursions into Argentine territory may be related to a Bolivian need to generate centripetal forces, in a country that is presently subject to centrifugal and even secessionist tensions. The author reflects that, from an Argentine perspective, it is fortunate that it is not Chile or Brazil that are going through this sort of domestic trouble. The pacifist experiment implemented by Argentina seems to indicate that, although Latin America may indeed be more prone to peace than other regions of the world, realist international relations theory still applies to it, at least to some extent. Although in the Latin American context a country like Argentina can probably afford to spend much less in arms than its neighbours, it does not seem wise for it to spend nothing at all. It should buy, say, at least half as much as does Chile. Nonetheless, the experiment continues and history may modify these educated guesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
32. LOS CONSERVADORES ARGENTINOS ANTE EL DESAFÍO DEL REFORMISMO Y LA DEMOCRATIZACIÓN POLÍTICA:UNA LECTURA DESDE LA PROVINCIA DE CORRIENTES (1912-1930).
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Solís Carnicer, María del Mar
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DEMOCRATIZATION , *CONSERVATISM , *POLITICAL change , *REFORMS , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This article examines the political reform process implemented in1912 in Argentina in order to discuss some general understandings in national historiography about the scope of the reform. The analysis focuses on the province of Corrientes, the only one in which the Radicalism failed o reach power throughout the period. This paper seeks to assess the limits of reformism, strategies and mechanisms implemented by the Conservatism to stay in power despite the national political situation that presented it adverse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
33. Análisis sociocognitivo del voto juvenil en Córdoba.
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Ibañez, Juan Ignacio
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YOUTH in politics , *VOTING , *IDEOLOGY , *VOTING research , *SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors , *ELECTIONS ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
The main purpose of this research paper is to compare sociodemographic variables, 'cognitive mobilization', sense of -internal and external- 'political efficacy', 'political trust', voting behavior and voting intentions among 16 and 17-year old students of a private and state school in the city of Córdoba between their first and second ballot experience (primary and legislative elections). 'Political ideology' and attitude towards the so-called Youth Vote Act are analyzed through two case studies. The results of the research mark the beginnings of the youth suffrage studies in the city of Córdoba, thus establishing a sense of political efficacy and civic duty and programmatic political knowledge of the secondary students. At the same time, it shows that both groups have similar dynamics, such as the case of the relatives with the greatest impact on the choice of candidates and the level of 'political sophistication' and cognitive mobilization of conservatives and leftists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
34. From House to Home: Strategic Bill Drafting in Multilevel Systems with Non-static Ambition.
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Micozzi, Juan Pablo
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LEGISLATION drafting , *LEGISLATORS , *LEGISLATION , *FEDERAL government ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
How do legislators behave in systems where pursuit of re-election is not the rule, and ambition is channelled through multiple levels of government? Is their legislative behaviour biased towards their immediate career goals? In this paper, the Argentine case is analysed in order to explore the link between political ambition and legislative performance in a multilevel setting where politicians have subnational executive positions as priorities, rather than stable legislative careerism. The piece demonstrates that legislators seeking mayoral positions tend to submit more district-level legislation than their peers. This finding contributes to the knowledge of strategic behaviour in multilevel settings, and provides non-US-based evidence regarding the use of non-roll call position-taking devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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35. Construir un barrio organizado: Políticas habitacionales y categorías socioespaciales en una villa de Buenos Aires.
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Ferraudi Curto, Maria Cecilia
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HOUSING policy , *URBAN planning , *NEIGHBORHOODS , *SQUATTER settlements , *ETHNOLOGY , *URBANIZATION , *SOCIAL history ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
The opposition between the categories of shantytown and neighborhood has been crucial in the disciplinary analyses of popular habitat in Argentina. The urbanization of a shantytown in Great Buenos Aires enables us to refresh this discussion, setting the categories into motion. The ethnographic analysis of the category of neighborhood in the urbanization of Villa Torres (La Matanza) will help to explore how this shantytown is constructed as “emblem" for public policies, receiving various resources. In fact, this paper will analyze how the urbanization is legitimized through an image of the neighborhood, of the urbanization and of the people in charge of it as “gente del barrio" [people from the neighborhood] in order to show how local knowledge is implied in this public policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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36. La educación primaria en tiempos de la "Revolución Libertadora": el caso de la provincia de Buenos Aires (1955-1958).
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Petitti, Eva Mara
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HISTORY of education policy , *EDUCATION , *PRIMARY education , *PERONISM , *TWENTIETH century ,ARGENTINE history, 1955-1983 ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze primary education policy during the administration of the self-proclaimed "Liberating Revolution". The few studies that have examined this issue state that the Liberating Revolution government erased the traces that Peronism had left in the education system. Our interest is to review this process. To do this, we analyze the conflicts within the government, the institutional design of education governance and internal organization of schools. We ask whether despite the ideological and political ruptures, it is possible to find elements of continuity with the previous period. Our empirical observation area is the province of Buenos Aires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
37. Enrique Pichon-Rivière en la revista Primera Plana: la "vida moderna" bajo la mirada psicosocial.
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Briolotti, Ana S.
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SOCIAL psychology , *MODERNIZATION (Social science) , *DEMOCRACY , *PRACTICAL politics , *PERIODICALS , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper analyses the articles written by Enrique Pichon-Rivière and Ana Pampliega de Quiroga for the magazine Primera Plana, between 1966 and 1967. We have specially focused on the articles that try to situate the subjective effects of socio-economic and cultural modernization of the moment. In this regard, we have been interested in showing that these writings reflect the tension of a time in which the traditional ways of living and thinking coexisted with discourses and practices that questioned them. Furthermore, and considering the political situation of the moment in which these works were published, we went through some articles on this topic. We notice a stand in favour of the validity of the democratic system. This standpoint confronted with the media campaign led by the magazine itself, which sought to create the necessary consensus for the military coup of June 1966. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
38. Educación Ambiental y legislación educativa en Argentina. Hacia un estado de la cuestión.
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CONDENANZA, Lucía M. and CORDERO, Silvina
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ENVIRONMENTAL education , *EDUCATION policy , *EDUCATION , *LITERATURE reviews , *LEGISLATION ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper presents the results of a literature review that considers documents and research work on environmental education (EA) in general, and on EA and legislation in particular, produced at the international, regional and national levels, and guided by the questions: What do works linking EA and education in Argentine legislation contend? In what context, within the EA field, are they inserted? Through the referred reviews we characterize the EA international and Latin American panorama, and analyze the contributions of five articles and a book relevant to our focus on Argentina. Without claiming to have done thorough research, this approach allowed us to perceive the need to deepen the studies that, apart from describing the content of the various laws, analyze its meaning in the historical context in which each regulation was passed, as well as the relationship between forces in the field of environmental education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
39. INSTRUMENTOS DE POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS. FACTORES CLAVES DE LAS CAPACIDADES ESTATALES.
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J. Isuani, Fernando
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STATE power , *GOVERNMENT policy , *POLITICAL planning , *POLITICAL reform , *TWENTY-first century ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
In the last years, there has been an appreciation of the role of the state, which coexists with strong awareness of their difficulties and constraints to solve different social problems. To adopt and crystallize reform strategies aimed at improving state capacities, and be optimistic about their results, it is necessary to generate knowledge about the factors that condition them. This paper points out that public policy instruments are a key factor of state capacities. Thus, from a case study in 2010 on water policy in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the work shows how public policy instruments determine the strengthening of state capabilities and presents a series of guidelines at nurturing future state reform strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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40. PROYECTOS DE DISCIPLINAMIENTOS DEL ESTADO EN VINCULACIÓN A LAS PRÁCTICAS Y REPRESENTACIONES EN TORNO DE LA MUERTE DE LA ÉLITE MENDOCINA (1887-1903). INFLUENCIA DEL PROCESO DE SECULARIZACIÓN.
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AGUERREGARAY CASTIGLIONE, Rosana
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SECULARIZATION , *MODERNITY , *MUNICIPAL government , *PROGRESS , *PUBLIC health , *CHURCH & state , *FUNERALS -- History , *CEMETERIES , *NINETEENTH century , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY ,ARGENTINE politics & government ,ARGENTINE social conditions - Abstract
This paper discusses the health discipline projects promulgated by the provincial government and its relationship with the funerary practices of Mendoza society in the late nineteenth century, and in turn of the transformations that occurred in these practices influence the process of secularization. It will be aproach in a cultural historical perspective and based on epochal sources such as municipal and notarial digests. While it can be inferred that much of the testators were adept at Catholicism can see certain indicators of that process, and also that the regulations were partly fulfilled by the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
41. ¿HAY POLÍTICAS DE ESTADO EN LA ARGENTINA? APROXIMACIONES A UN CONCEPTO.
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Cueto, Walter José and Guardamagna, Melina
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GOVERNMENT policy , *DEMOCRACY , *POLICY sciences , *PUBLIC administration ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper intends to problematize and put into perspective the use and abuse in the current political language about the idea of "State policy". Some authors have already made significant contributions, but seem insufficient because the notion increasingly used to further confusion. The idea is search the limits of this notion, inquire about the meaning and scope, analyze the possibility of finding specific attributes, whether there are policies in Argentina that could be classified as State policies and what does its existence in a democracy. Consequently, in this first approach, we will work on the everyday uses of the concept of State policy and to speak of these we will refer , primarily, to documentary sources not academic [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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42. REGIÓN Y REGIONALIZACIÓN: SU TEORÍA Y SU MÉTODO. EL NUEVO ORDEN ESPACIAL DEL TERRITORIO ARGENTINO.
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Gómez Lende, Sebastián
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REGIONALISM , *MODERNITY , *LAND use , *LAND management ,ARGENTINE politics & government ,ARGENTINE social conditions - Abstract
At the present time, region seems to have been turned into a metaphor, into a comfortable place to the speech. It doesn't exist so far any proposal or antecedent of ‘regionalization' that has transcended, in Argentina, the mere spatial division ex ante, and then to investigate about the diverse pieces obtained's forms and contents. In the doctoral thesis of this paper's author -whose discoveries are here presented-, the traditional regionalization's focuses and proposals fallacies have been denounced, and is thought about a coherent alternative: territory knows a regionalization process that it assumes diverse ways in each historical period, segmenting to the country according to their points and areas modernity's different grade. Omnipresent, such a fragmentation can be studied starting from different local densities, speeds, productivities, fluency and rationality that, structured by the uprightness and horizontalities concepts, and operacionalizated in networks and territorial division of labor, they allow to discover and to invent a new regional map, made up of luminous and opaque areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
43. Barrio resurgence in Buenos Aires: Local autonomy claims amid state-sponsored transnationalism
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Kanai, J. Miguel
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DECENTRALIZATION in government , *MUNICIPAL government , *NEIGHBORHOODS , *COMMUNITY power , *URBAN studies , *TRANSNATIONALISM , *NEOLIBERALISM , *ACTIVISM ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper argues that observing neighborhood movements through the lens of territorial state restructuring holds theoretical promise. Contemporary struggles over municipal decentralization need to be located within broader state re-scaling processes. Seeking to contribute a Latin American perspective to the largely Anglo-American field of urban neoliberalization research, this study engages with the emergence of local autonomy claims in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Middle-class activists and organizations advanced such claims against the background of thorough transnationalism, in what may be interpreted as a localist political reaction to the socio-spatial consequences of urban and state restructuring. Field evidence is used to assess the ultimate political efficacy and democratic implications of their political agency, particularly in what concerns municipal decentralization. It is argued that curtailing the empowerment of barrio districts were the following conditions: mayoral opposition to communal reforms; ongoing cross-scalar tensions between the city and national government; and the barrio-centric issue framings of activists, which hampered social recruitment in an increasingly heterogeneous and transnationalized urban space. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2011
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44. La Gendarmería Infantil durante la última dictadura.
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Lvovich, Daniel and Rodríguez, Laura Graciela
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CHILDREN , *CHILDREN'S societies & clubs , *TWENTIETH century ,20TH century Argentine history ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper explores the activities that took place in the frame of the "Civic Action Plan" of the National Gendarmerie, in particular focusing on the creation and development of the "Gendarmería Infantil". We hold that the plan aimed at integrating and improving the image of the Gendarmerie in the society, and that the experience of the Gendarmería Infantil was an attempt to influence on the socialization of children and youth by a sector of the military regime. The intention of influencing the education of youth and boys can be seen in the establishment of ties between them and security forces socialization values of these forces and participation in ceremonies strongly associated with its principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
45. Cuestión social, desarrollo y hegemonía en la Argentina de los años sesenta. El caso de Onganía.
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Claudio Laguado Duc, Arturo
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LIBERALISM , *PRESS ,ARGENTINE politics & government, 1955-1983 ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper addresses the discourse conflicts concerning development and the social issue, between the government elites and the power groups during post-Peronist developmentalism era in Argentina. Because of space limitations emphasis will be made on the Onganía's government. Governmentality crisis faced during that period can be explained on the grounds of the difficulty elites in power had to come to an agreement on a hegemonic discourse concerning those issues, as it is argued here. The empirical analysis will show a constant: permanence in time of a liberal narrative against any effort of state regulation and the failed attempt to create an alternative narrative through the development significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
46. LA DEFINICIÓN LOCAL DE LA PROBLEMÁTICA SOCIAL. LA CONFORMACIÓN DE LA AGENDA DE GOBIERNO EN UN MUNICIPIO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES.
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José Iucci, Matías
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SOCIAL policy , *SOCIAL problems , *LOCAL government , *GOVERNMENT policy ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
The target of this work is surveying the making of a social policy agenda at municipality level. The case taken here is the inclusion of a municipal plan for the strengthening of social problems in a municipality of the province of Buenos Aires. The case offers us the opportunity for investigating on two central problems referred to the agenda of government: the first one, on the conditions under which changes are established in the local agenda by relation to the previous ones. The second question linked to the first one, recounts to the way in which the municipal agents identify social problems and propose strategies of intervention on the same ones. One of the conclusions more importantly of this paper is that the definition of public problems from a local perspective presents a dynamics in which the agents who intervene in the field of the policy and administration in the municipal level raise topics and problems that can be approached across limits and financings that come from the national and / or provincial areas of management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
47. CULTURA POLÍTICA DE PROTESTA. UNA PROPUESTA DE APROXIMACIÓN CONCEPTUAL.
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Aiziczon, Fernando
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SOCIAL movements , *POLITICAL participation , *SOCIAL participation , *POLITICAL culture , *ACTIVISTS , *PUBLIC demonstrations , *POLITICAL sociology , *SOCIAL history ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
The irruption of social protest in big scale is a characteristic element of the Argentina's society from '90 decade to the present. The roadblock, the practice of the assembly, the emergence of social actors such as the "piqueteros", as well as traditional repertories such as strikes leaded by syndicates place these and other ways of collective action as privileged resources that scholars call "modular repertories", that is, models of actions that are used by the rest of the society despite the fact that they may not share the same goals of those who created them. In this sense, the following paper proposes the discussion on this phenomenon from a conceptual approach around the idea of political culture of protest. This idea is articulated on the tension between politics and culture concepts, the first idea of political culture, and de last contributions that come form theories of collective action applied to the social movements, protest and revolutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
48. Las relaciones de poder durante el menemismo.
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Gallo, Adriana
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POWER (Social sciences) ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper intends to analyze the relations of power during the 1990's in Argentina, following, in several aspects, Alain Touraine. These will be this our vectors: in the Menemista stage, on the one hand, the State-nation was deconstructed and simultaneously, there occurred a suppression of the Political Subject, engendered in modernity, conceived by Touralne. It will be argued that during the Carlos Menem administration, a collapse of the national referent originated to such an extent that it caused the idea of Subject to become incompatible with the idea of State, bringing about a process of individualization and a concomitant political de-ideologization. All the above shall be dealt with through the analysis of the relations of power, deployed in the two dimensions which, in our understanding, better account for such ties, that is to say, the socio-cultural dimension - where emphasis is laid on the loss of the subject's politicity; and the political dimension - on which the degradation of institutions and the conflicts between government and opposition are referred to. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
49. EL FRACASO DE LA DESCENTRALIZACIÓN ARGENTINA.
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Cao, Horacio and Vaca, Josefina
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DECENTRALIZATION in government , *MUNICIPAL government , *FEDERAL government , *FAILURE (Psychology) , *ARGENTINE provinces ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper has the objective of carrying out a critical analysis of the theories that justified the decentralizing process in the Republic of Argentina, trying to determine, from the perspective of their failure, their most fundamental weaknesses. With this objective in mind, I start with a succinct description of the decentralizing process in Argentina and the advantages that, according to its supporters, these actions would bring about. Afterwards, I criticize these concepts, detailing, according to the authors, the reasons why the expected results could not be achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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50. LA CAMPAÑA ELECTORAL POR LA JEFATURA DE GOBIERNO DE BUENOS AIRES: ESTRATEGIAS POLÍTICAS E INTELIGIBILIDAD DE LA AGENDA.
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Mauro, Sebastián Gabriel
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CAMPAIGN management , *POLITICAL candidates , *MILITARY strategy ,ARGENTINE politics & government - Abstract
This paper analyses the construction of the political agenda in the election campaign for the Government of Buenos Aires City in 2003, interpreting this in terms of hegemonical articulation. First, it tries to describe and compare the different thoughtful candidates strategies which set a particular agenda. As a provisional hypothesis it is affirmed that this discursive strategies are constructed around the image of the corrupt like a negative identification's device, in a struggle which resolution depends on the citizenship's behaviour in the elections. On the other hand, this behaviour is analysed by assuming that it takes its form as an answers to this discursive struggle, within a framework characterized by the fluctuation of the vote, the weakening of the supporters' fidelity and the growth of an independent electorate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2005
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