La Democracia Exigente

La propuesta de Gianfranco Pasquino es transitar en estas páginas el pensamiento de Norberto Bobbio y Giovanni Sartori deteniéndose especialmente en temas abordados por ellos en sus trayectorias como filósofos de la ciencia política. El recorrido incluye temas fundamentales como las nociones de ambos autores sobre la democracia, el papel de los intelectuales en la vida democrática, el sistema de partidos y temáticas de profunda actualidad. Con el conocimiento cercano de la vida y la obra que le otorga su condición de discípulo de ambos pensadores –perspectiva que no rehúye pero...

This study of the Iron Age II in Central Spain is based on fieldwork carried out between 1994 and 1996 in the Mesa de Ocaña in Toledo. Following an introduction and background to the area, the author discusses the aims and methodology of the survey and presents a catalogue of the sites identified and their morphology. This study supports the idea of a dual settlement system in the later Iron Age (roughly the 8th/7th to 5th/4th century BC), with specialised sites coexisting with continuously occupied settlements.

En un intento por «rescatar» de la escasa atención que los escritores y textos surgidos en Italia han tenido entre los académicos dedicados a reflexionar sobre el fenómeno de la opinión pública desde una perspectiva científica presentamos, probablemente, el texto más relevante producido a finales del siglo XIX, que representa un pionero esfuerzo por establecer el papel de la opinión pública como fuerza moral en el ordenamiento jurídico-político de los Estados regidos por un gobierno constitucional.

PLAYING IN PEACE - Proposals to play in peace and without violence - The authors put an accent on playing, considering it the primordial activity of childhood. So that childhood games contribute to their development as people of peace, means that they can play and that they can do so with happiness, meeting with their equals, that they can have materials and peaceful references and that they can regulate conflicts that arise in the games in a non violent man.

Many of the 13 essays in this collection originate from the archaeology symposia of the Society for Latin American Studies held at Bradford University in 1989; others have been commissioned from people engaged in research in Central and South America. Subjects include the Aztec Cihuateteo, political stratification in Classic Maya society, shamanism and sculpture in Ancient West Mexico, underwater archaeolocical research in Bolivia, Inca ceremonial platforms in central Chile, early Inca architecture in Peru, fabrics of the Atacamba.