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In this article we analyze the differential effects of gender in cases of forced residential eviction and displacement to the periphery as they are lived by women residents of Mexico City. We consider eviction to be one of the least addressed problems in urban studies, but one that exhibits great strength for discussing the issues of housing and the city from a feminist perspective. We hypothesize that this is an expulsion not only of women, but of racialized women. Gathering concepts of eviction, mobility, and immobility, “racial banishment”, gentrification and others, and through a qualitative investigation that reconstructs the stories of eviction and displacement collected through interviews with women from the “Eviction Network of Mexico City”, we offer emotional and embodied texture to these abstract urban processes. In this context, the findings show how ethnic-racial issues intersect and produce specific gendered effects. At the same time, we pinpoint how forced displacement can be understood from the perspective of mobility and immobility, where aspects such as access to the city and insecurity are very sensitive for women, and finally, we address how to understand the experience of eviction from an emotional perspective.

Actualmente, la gestión de costos en la empresa es un tema relevante en el contextode los mercados globales. Algunas organizaciones adoptaron el Sistema de Costos Basado en Actividades, ya que aborda de manera eficiente los costos en que incurren para la prestación de servicios, desde una perspectiva que engloba los aspectos económicos relacionados con cada una de las actividades ejecutadas, generando información valiosa que constituye una herramienta de apoyo para la toma de decisiones, permitiendo a las compañías estar a la vanguardia ante los cambios del entorno. El objetivo del trabajo, es diseñar un sistema de costos ABC en la agencia Ecoturismo Putumayo. Al respecto, se utilizó una metodología descriptiva para recolectar la información, procesarla y proponer el sistema de costeo. Finalmente, se logró identificar y estandarizar a través de un modelo piloto, los recursos incurridos en la prestación del servicio, determinando el costo de los paquetes turísticos que la agencia ofrece al mercado. Currently, cost management in the company is a relevant issue in the context of global markets. Some organizations adopted the Activity Based Costing System, since it efficiently addresses the costs incurred for the provision of services, from a perspective that encompasses the economic aspects related to each of the activities carried out, generating valuable information that constitutes a support tool for decision-making, allowing companies to be at the forefront in the face of environmental changes. The objective of the work is to design a system of ABC costs in the Ecoturismo Putumayo agency. In this regard, a descriptive methodology wasused to collect the information, process it and propose the costing system. Finally, it was possible to identify and standardize, through a pilot model, the resources incurred in the provision of the service, determining the cost of the tour packages that the agency offers to the market.

El postulado de este ensayo es que el desempeño histórico superior de las democracias parlamentarias no es accidental Una comparación cuidadosa entre parlamentarismo y presidencialismo en cuanto tales lleva a la conclusión que, en balance, el primero es más conducente hacia democracias estables que el último La conclusión se aplica especialmente a naciones con profundas divisiones políticas y numerosos partidos políticos; para tales países, el parlamentarismo generalmente ofrece una mejor esperanza para preservar la democracia. The premise of this essay is that the superior historical performance of the parliamentary democracies is not accidental. A careful comparison between parliamentarism and presidentialism as such leads to the conclusion that, on balance, the former is more conductive to stable democracies than the latter. The conclusion applies especially to nations with deep political divisions and numerous political parties, for such countries, parliamentarism generally offers a better hope to preserve democracy.

Neste artigo os autores levantam a seguinte tese: os países constituídos por federações multiétnicas, em processo de transição de autoritarismo para a democracia, têm maior probabilidade de manter sua união política se as primeiras eleições e tomadas de voto, desse período transacional, forem eleições de caráter nacional (geral, de toda a União) ao invés de eleições regionais ou provinciais. A tese apresentada é defendida pela análise comparada dos casos de Espanha e de ex-União Soviética e Iugoslávia.In the above article, the authors present the following thesis: multi-ethnic federations in transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy have a much better chance of maintaining its political unity if the initial elections during such transitional period are all-union elections as opposed to regional or provincial elections. The thesis is argued thru the comparative analysis of the Spain, ex URSS and Yugoslavia cases.