Harbinger of modernity : Marcos Aguinis and the democratization of Argentina / / by Dalia Wassner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453495503321
• Autore: Wassner Dalia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2013
• ISBN: 90-04-26132-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Collana: Jewish Latin America ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 863/.64
• Soggetti: Intellectuals - Argentina - History - 20th century; Jews - Argentina - Intellectual life; Politics in literature; Electronic books.; Argentina Politics and government 1983-2002
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Historical and Literary Context of the Argentine Public Intellectual -- Chapter 2 Aguinis and Alfonsin: Public Intellectuals and the Argentine Government -- Chapter 3 Aguinis and the Essay: The Argentine Erasmus? -- Chapter 4 Dialogue: Leading by Example -- Chapter 5 Jews and the Novel: Aguinis’s Means to an End -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Literary Works by Marcos Aguinis -- Appendix 2 Newspaper Articles by Marcos Aguinis -- Appendix 3 Scholarship on Marcos Aguinis -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina , Dalia Wassner presents an integrated analysis of the civic work and literary oeuvre of Marcos Aguinis, who served as Secretary of Culture during Argentina’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Situating his writings in their historical and intellectual context, Wassner explores Aguinis’s engagement with the dialectic of modernization as a Jewish public intellectual equally dedicated to fostering Argentine democracy and to inscribing himself in the annals of westernization. Encompassing intellectual history, literary criticism, Latin American history, and Jewish studies, Wassner’s work illuminates ; the intersecting roles of Jews and public intellectuals in bringing democracy to post-dictatorship Argentina.

La struttura subatomica dell'esperienza : questioni di teoria della storiografia / / [a cura di Barnaba Maj]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910133124703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Macerata, : Quodlibet, 2006
• ISBN: 88-7462-127-2
• Descrizione fisica: 264 p. ; ; 22 cm
• Collana: Discipline filosofiche ; ; 16.1 (2006)
• Disciplina: 907; 190; 901
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Collected essays.; Incl. English poems (p. 243-254) by Geoffrey Hill (1932-), with Italian transl.; Half title: ISSN 1591-9625.; The series is a six-monthly periodical.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.

Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide : Moving Outside the Electoral Arena / / Carol Mershon, Olga Shvetsova [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790403903321
• Autore: Mershon Carol
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-139-89013-1; 1-107-24091-3; 1-107-25063-3; 1-107-56960-5; 1-107-24814-0; 1-107-24980-5; 0-511-98290-9; 1-107-24731-4; 1-107-24897-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: POL000000
• Disciplina: 328.3/69
• Soggetti: Party affiliation; Political parties; Legislators; Legislative bodies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ; Part one. The prospect of party system change between elections -- The phenomenon of party and party system change -- How parliamentary party system change matters for policy -- Why and how individual incumbents change legislative party systems -- ; Part two. Discerning mechanisms through case studies -- Legislators' pursuit of benefits and legislative party system change -- Avoidance of electoral costs and stability in parliamentary parties -- ; Part three. Generalizing in a broader empirical setting -- Setting up the analysis of one hundred and ten parliaments -- Institutional inducements and preference-based ; deterrents to legislative party system change -- Comparative statistics : where our assumptions may not apply -- Conclusions -- ; Bibliography -- Parliamentary records -- Newspapers and periodicals -- Other primary and secondary sources -- Appendixes -- Author Index -- Subject index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova explore one of the central questions in democratic politics: how much autonomy do elected politicians have to shape and reshape the party system on their own, without the direct involvement of voters in elections? Mershon and Shvetsova's theory focuses on the choices of party membership made by legislators while serving in office. It identifies the inducements and impediments to legislators' changes of partisan affiliation, and integrates strategic and institutional approaches to the study of parties and party systems. With empirical analyses comparing nine countries that differ in electoral laws, territorial governance and executive-legislative relations, Mershon and Shvetsova find that strategic incumbents have the capacity to reconfigure the party system as established in elections. Representatives are motivated to bring about change by opportunities arising during the parliamentary term, and are deterred from doing so by the elemental democratic practice of elections.