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Les auteurs cherchent à démontrer empiriquement que les régions à haut niveau de capital social sont celles qui sont les plus modernes en termes socio-politiques. Lorsque l'on explore la source de satisfaction des citoyens quant à la performance du système et des ...

This study tackles the concept of social exclusion, adopted by the 2000 Lisbon summit of the EU to provide a better description of the current social situation in Europe, with its new logics of inequality and social integration, and a greater prescriptive capacity for its attenuation ...

Abstract. Analysis of Spain's first constitutional legislature (1979–1982) reveals (with the logical reservations derived from the fact that this was the first democratic legislature after the many years of Franco's dictatorship) the Spanish Parliament's important influence on the legislative process in terms of both initiating legislation and proposing amendments to bills introduced. This influence may possibly have stemmed from the fragile government of Union de Centro Democrático (UCD) at a time when the party had only a relative majority in Parliament and was torn by serious internal problems, both ideological and personal, which caused it to all but disappear in the 1982 election. All of this took place within the framework of a system of centralized political decision-making in which political leaders played a starring role.

La relació entre la política i el disseny no es evident. Només des d'una concepció generalista de la política, entesa com la forma en què regulem el conflicte social, podem començar a acostar-nos a aquest binomi aparentment estrany. En una primera aproximació, el "disseny", si és que podem parlar genèricament de "disseny", se'ns apareix carregat d'aparença però allunyat de continguts.

The debate about the relationship between decentralization and equity has been intensifying in Europe and other parts of the world. In Spain, this debate has been alive over the past thirty years since the transition to democracy, as long as decentralization started and developed hand in hand with the construction of the welfare state. The question is what decentralization represents for the Spanish welfare system as a whole, or how future developments in this decentralized scenario condition the welfare role of the state. In this article we will analyse how devolution has resulted in different welfare policy options taken by the governments of the 17 Autonomous Communities, and how the emergence of different territorial welfare regimes has coexisted with a common structure of social benefits and rights for the state territory. We will also show how citizens' perceptions on the evolution of inequalities across territories do not fit the data available on the strong redistribution effect of state policies.

From monopoly to multilevel: territorial complexity on politics and policies The classic form of understanding processes of government was based until recently on the maintenance of two clear divisions. This was the division between the public and private spheres and, within ...