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The article makes a theoretical review of the evolution of the problem of democratic institutions in recent democracies, presenting the standard approaches to study the relationship between political regime and public policy. It is argued that academics have stopped treating democracy from a perspective focused on the components of the political regime to concentrate on the functioning of political institutions in relation to state management. The essay examines three aspects of this new wave of research: mainstream political economy, the approach of informal institutions, and the perspective of political agreements. The review pays particular attention to the place that these three approaches give organizations as political actors. The author concludes by presenting the implications of his theoretical evolution for an empirical research agenda that can be developed from the confluence between political economy and organizational studies. ; El artículo hace una revisión teórica de la evolución del problema de las instituciones democráticas en las democracias recientes, con el objetivo de presentar al lector los enfoques estándar para estudiar la relación entre régimen político y política pública. Se argumenta que los académicos han dejado de tratar a la democracia desde una perspectiva centrada en los componentes del régimen político, para enfocarse en el funcionamiento de las instituciones políticas con relación a la gestión estatal. El ensayo examina tres vertientes de esa nueva ola de investigaciones: la economía política mainstream, el enfoque de las instituciones informales y la perspectiva de los acuerdos políticos. El examen pone particular atención al lugar que los tres enfoques otorgan a las organizaciones como actores políticos. El autor concluye presentando las implicaciones de esa evolución teórica para una agenda de investigación empírica que podría desarrollarse a partir de la confluencia entre la economía política y los estudios organizacionales. ; O artigo faz uma revisão teórica da evolução do ...

The article makes a theoretical review of the evolution of the problem of democratic institutions in recent democracies, presenting the standard approaches to study the relationship between political regime and public policy. It is argued that academics have stopped treating democracy from a perspective focused on the components of the political regime to concentrate on the functioning of political institutions in relation to state management. The essay examines three aspects of this new wave of research: mainstream political economy, the approach of informal institutions, and the perspective of political agreements. The review pays particular attention to the place that these three approaches give organizations as political actors. The author concludes by presenting the implications of this theoretical evolution for an empirical research agenda that can be developed from the confluence between political economy and organizational studies. ; El artículo hace una revisión teórica de la evolución del problema de las instituciones democráticas en las democracias recientes, con el objetivo de presentar al lector los enfoques estándar para estudiar la relación entre régimen político y política pública. Se argumenta que los académicos han dejado de tratar a la democracia desde una perspectiva centrada en los componentes del régimen político, para enfocarse en el funcionamiento de las instituciones políticas con relación a la gestión estatal. El ensayo examina tres vertientes de esa nueva ola de investigaciones: la economía política mainstream, el enfoque de las instituciones informales y la perspectiva de los acuerdos políticos. El examen pone particular atención al lugar que los tres enfoques otorgan a las organizaciones como actores políticos. El autor concluye presentando las implicaciones de esa evolución teórica para una agenda de investigación empírica que podría desarrollarse a partir de la confluencia entre la economía política y los estudios organizacionales.

The article analyzes, in the light of empirical evidence, the hypothesis about what is the present political situation, which in effect criticizes, but does not mark out a turn towards the left, but the culmination of a long period of political change in the Andes. Taking as its main point the Andean electoral landscape of 2006, the author classifies the countries of the region in two groups: those in which the process of change has culminated, producing new configurations of political-electoral actors (parties and/or movements): Venezuela and Colombia, and a second group of countries in which the process of change is still in progress: Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. ; El artículo analiza, a la luz de la evidencia empírica, la hipótesis acerca de que la coyuntura política actual es, en efecto crítica, pero que no marca un giro hacia la izquierda, sino la culminación de un largo período de ajuste político en los Andes. Tomando como punto de partida la coyuntura electoral andina del 2006, el autor clasifica a los países de la región en dos grupos: aquellos en los que el proceso de ajuste ha culminado, produciendo nuevas configuraciones de actores político-electorales (partidos y/o movimientos), este conjunto incluye a Venezuela y Colombia. Y un segundo grupo de países en los que el ajuste estaría todavía en proceso: Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia.

Songs like Chico Fininho, by Rui Veloso and the Banda Sonora, and Cavalos de Corrida, by the group UHF, were the first hits of the "Portuguese rock boom", an expression referring to the first moment of great commercial success for rock repertoire recorded and published in Portugal. At the beginning of the 1980s, "Portuguese rock" was central to the consolidation of a "modern" and cosmopolitan youth identity that increasingly identified with habits and lifestyles from the Anglo-American cultural universe. The intensification of the editorial commitment to this repertoire led to the emergence of new groups, record producers, sound companies and artist agencies, as well as the reconfiguration of the characteristics of various bands that sought to align themselves with the phenomenon, including the growing use of the Portuguese language, an aspect that until then had often been disregarded in the context of rock music. This book analyses the main changes that took place in rock practices in Portugal during the second half of the 1970s and early 1980s, looking at the links between the various music industries and the role of their agents as active participants in shaping the activity of the groups and their respective repertoires. - Canções como Chico Fininho, de Rui Veloso e a Banda Sonora, e Cavalos de Corrida, do grupo UHF, constituíram os primeiros êxitos do «boom do rock português», expressão referente ao primeiro momento de grande sucesso comercial de repertório rock gravado e publicado em Portugal. No início da década de 1980, o «rock português» foi fulcral na consolidação de uma identidade juvenil «moderna» e cosmopolita crescentemente identificada com hábitos e estilos de vida provindos do universo cultural anglo-americano. A intensificação da aposta editorial neste repertório motivou o aparecimento de novos grupos, produtores fonográficos, empresas de som e de agenciamento de artistas, assim como a reconfiguração das características de várias bandas que procuraram alinhar-se com o fenómeno, inclusive no crescente recurso à língua portuguesa, aspecto até então frequentemente desprezado no âmbito do rock. Neste livro, são analisadas as principais transformações ocorridas nas práticas do rock em Portugal durante a segunda metade da década de 1970 e inícios da década de 1980, contemplando a articulação entre as várias indústrias ligadas à música e o papel dos seus agentes enquanto participantes activos na configuração da actividade dos grupos e dos seus respectivos repertórios.

"In the typical narrative of modern Sino-European relations, George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role. His failure to open China to trade and diplomatic relations with Britain sets the stage for a long and bitter clash of cultures that led to the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and perhaps even to the mistrust that still pervades relations today. In this book, Tonio Andrade draws on a wealth of neglected archival material to tell a very different story: that of the last European delegation that was ever received in the traditional Chinese court, the Dutch mission of 1794-95"--

Introduction -- I. Mapping supererogation -- II. Assimilating supererogation -- III. Proximity and moral demandingness -- IV. Impartialism, autonomy and supererogation -- V. Morally demanding infinite responsibility: an analytic-continental segue -- VI. Ethics as first philosophy -- VII. Constructing a Levinasian normativity (without norms) -- VIII. Levinasian normativity is supererogatory -- IX. The analytic/continental divide redux: continuities and departures -- Conclusion.