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Metropolitan governance studies have traditionally focused on factors such as effectiveness and efficiency in the provision of public goods and services. Yet, we have recently seen the resurgence of debates around metropolitan democratic governance at the same time as the consolidation of new structures of metropolitan government have occurred in several European countries. In spite of that, there is still an important knowledge gap about metropolitan models of government and metropolitan electoral systems. Through the comparative analysis of metropolitan governments in the United Kingdom, France and Germany we identify four main models: metropolitan presidentialism, localist metropolitan parliamentarism, consolidated metropolitan parliamentarism, and full metropolitan government. Moreover, the comparative analysis shows not only the influence of the respective local institutional contexts in the metropolitan government and electoral systems, but also how these reforms are opportunities to introduce innovative institutional designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investigations conducted in Paris on the summer of 1825 into the project of some Spanish expatriates in London to provoke an uprising in the Philippines uncovered the foundation of an English company to trade with the islands. The company’s directors, several of whom were members of parliament and bonded to the English government, believed that the Philippines were independent already. Correspondence from the Philippine Islands Mining Trading & Agricultural Association suggests that only if the Philippines were a sovereign state would the new authorities be granted a debenture loan of up to a million pounds in exchange for trading privileges. However, the loan was offered to the commander in chief of a territory still under Spanish rule, which was perceived as an incitement to secession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's views on the concepts of Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci and French philosopher Louis Althusser on the political history of Great Britain. Various topics discussed include political aspects of marxism, history of political movements in Great Britain and history of cultural studies.

This article provides a new analysis of the masterpiece of English Law of the Constitution in the turn of the twentieth century, Introductory to the study of the Law of the Constitution, by Albert Venn Dicey, Professor at the University of Oxford. It studies the constitutional system set up within the book, being the main feature of innovation the fact that the raised criticism comes from the same Anglo constitutional culture. For that purpose, the reflections of Harold Laski, one of the last disciples of Dicey, are central. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I present a comparative analysis of governmental communication in Great Britain and Mexico, considering three processes: the logic of governmental communication, the management of communication tasks and the structure and dynamics of the communication office. With this, I seek to answer the following question: have government communication strategies developed in Britain and Mexico since the eighties successfully performed the persuasion and accountability functions that contemporary democracy requires from them? The comparative analysis shows that in two political systems that are so different as those of Great Britain and Mexico one can find similarities that are due to the trend towards greater professionalization and the standardization of the persuasive and informative tasks of governmental communication. The comparison also indicates which communication policies have been effective when applied to the specific contexts of each country. In the two cases, the gradual transformation of the offices --which for years followed a more informative logic-- was replaced by a dramatic change in the definition of communication at the end of the XX century. As a result, the way in which policies are presented and communicated to the media became even more important than their economic and social content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a review of how are relations with Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute our traversing the political, economic and social development that exists in the center of colonialism and how it lives in the Islands. No doubt that Britain is handling the economic crisis sweeping the continent. For that reason it is not possible that the population much longer resist the huge expenditures that cost imperialism not only sustain but also a huge garrison helpers keeping with subsidies that are not known in the British Isles. Thus the hypothesis holds that sooner than later Malvinas will return to their rightful owners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper about «separation of powers» shows, along 397 pages, eight interesting works from diferents authors with various perspectives. The first part analyzes the historic perspective of this principle and takes like illustration United Kingdom and its most important doctrinaire. On the other hand, rest authors speak about the present and future of this teoric principle. What problems have our society regarding performing powers? Whoever are property’s power actually? The reality offers new powers like, public opinión, mass media, economic agents, lobbys. The separations powers’s essence is now very different. What is it in fact...? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has, from time to time, been suggested that Britain would be better off with a constitution on which the terms are to be found in a print document, known and accessible to all citizens. The purpose of this article is to consider the issue of feasibility, or more precisely, the problems which have to be resolved if it is decided to enact such a British Constitution. The first fundamental problem is to decide what should be included, and the second one is to decide how should be the constitution elaborated, ratificated and amendet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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