(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2006) Alvarez, Servando A.
After Colonial period had been ended, Latin America faced its main problem: the construction of political system under Independence’s ideas. No elements from this recent past might be used to built a Nation-State in European way for organizing a civil society. Most of actual Latin America political problems in several countries at the beginning of 21st century, came up from the old century ones, and this fact support a reviewing of interdisciplinary foundations from “The modern and democratic Law State” are supported. This paper aim to discuss such a point of view.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2006) Pérez Herrero, Pedro
The essay explains why and how Latin American societies, during the period of1930 to 1980, accepted the different variants of populist regimes; why these political systems perpetuated for such a long time; what mechanisms were employed to manage internal order; why and how the destruction occurred in the decade of the 1980s; why at the beginning of the 21st century certain forms of populist-demagogicappeals in the Latin-American political panorama returned to the scene; why the State in Latin America reached such low levels of institutionalism halfway through the 20th century; why the discourse of mixed races transformed itself into the central element, capable of uniting the complex magma formed by structural heterogeneity; and why «old nationalisms» are giving way to new methods and alternative discourses about the concept of identity at the beginning of the 21st century.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2006) Zeberio, Blanca
This paper aim to analyze the role that such a concepts like family, inheritance and property played for developing modern Argentine society. Especially how some principles were broken on, while others have been kept on, as the different legal criteria suggests. Rural Law of 1865, Civil Law of 1869 and juridical debates set the interaction rules among different notion of property rights and also different way for labor hiring, either into market rules or out of them. These kind of relations and their coexistent avoided to expand cattle business in a market way.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2006) Cordera Campos, Rolando; Lomelí Vanegas, Leonardo
This paper deals with Mexico’s economic history from 1982 early crisis and 1994 late one. It analysis the transit of an import substitution model and state oriented economic policy to an open market economy in a close relationship to U.S. economy and free trade agreement. This transit meant also a change in politics, after many years of PRI’s dominance. It also aim to advice about the so-called «demographic bonus», provided a slowing down of the birth rate and its consequence on further employment needs
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2006) Pompejano, Daniele
The main hypotesis of this article relys on the Colonial social relationship and the neoclassicists philosophy as the roots of Latin America authoritarian rule. From the concept of “natural” human being, patronizing and clientelism drove to an asymmetric relationship between authority and individuals within a corporative society. Although the Borbonism and liberalism had been strong dynamic forces, they were unsuccessful for changing such scheme and only a secularization process could timidly be carried on. For consequence, the Latin America politic modernization went on an authoritarian way, turning to populism, whereas individual became subaltern of the State; so, citizenship become indefinitely postponed
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2006) Noejovich Chernoff, Héctor Omar
This essay aim to set new hypothesis for Latin American’s development problem; the analysis is focused from “the encounter of two worlds” to the present. The generaland main hypothesis is a sort of “clutched” between the “Pre-Columbian System” and the “European System” and resulted in a so-called “Colonial System”. This “Colonial System” is defined as juxtaposition of systems and it has been suffering Western influence like a kind of “external shock” but keeping to an already hybrid system, wherein an inertial dynamic and not a dialectic one has been the main trait. The whole historical process is explained under such a point of view.
