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This paper attempts to fix the parameters of the the debate over decentralisation in France through a study of the situation in the federal States of Canada and the United States of America. After having established the perpetual nature of this debate in North America, we identify what distinguishes...

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The Theology of Lajos Zsarnay. Zsarnay’s theological thinking was eclectic. Even though he considered supranatu-ralism the only valid direction, still the interpretations of several doctrines bear the theology and formulation of Schleiermacher. He made it obvious that the views of rationalism ar...

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In this article we explore the controversy, registered in the plural field of Argentine liberalism, that Federico Pinedo y Alvaro Alsogary held between 1958 and 1973 with developmentalisms, particularly with ECLAC economic structuralism. From the analysis of a corpus of documents published in those...

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After remaining the most important methods of the new political history of Europ and Spain, this article tries to apply those methods on one special case: the birth of the modern politic from the end of the 18th-century to the moderate decade. The new politics concepts, the new thinkings, the popula...

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At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, between Asia and America, many enthusiastic defenders of “freedom” and “liberty”, inspired by political and economic liberalism, paradoxically demanded a strong, even “despotic” power, capable of embodying their ideals in laws and institu...

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During the first half of the 19th century in Mexico, the concept of fanaticism, which had been re-semantized in France at the end of the previous century, became particularly important in debates about religious tolerance. On the one hand, it was used to identify what was impossible to preserve in t...

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The author conducts a comparative analysis of authoritarian liberalism’s concepts in contemporary political theory. The article deals with the main directions of interpretation of authoritarian liberalism in the framework of methodological approaches and conceptual models of neoliberalism, ordoliber...

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Alasdair MacIntyre marks liberalism as a key opponent standing in opposition to an Aristotelian virtue ethics framework, and of the ability of communities to base a way of life around virtues centered upon man’s telos and what makes a good human life. This paper will argue that this does not need t...

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Cosmopolitanism is based on the liberal principle of moral egalitarianism, i.e., the moral equality of every human being. At the same time, liberalism, as a historical and political movement, finds in the state the agent and representative of political communities that exercise their sovereign power...

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Industrial Revolution 4.0, with its emphasis on smart manufacturing, has a profound impact on traditional employment. This study aims to examine changes in firms’ employment decisions in the context of Industry 4.0, shedding light on the conflict between liberalism's market mechanisms and st...

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This article examines the extent to which the principle of religious intolerance was espoused by the first Spanish liberals, taking into account that intolerance was an essential ingredient of Spanish political culture in the time-frame considered, that is the early 19th century. Unlike the royalist...

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This article seeks to analyse the culture of «modern politics» on the basis of the value system displayed by Spanish liberal politicians in the mid-19th century. Centring on the private correspondence of the progressive Fermín Caballero, the author examines the way in which the patriciate and the lo...

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René Descartes is usually presented in the history of philosophy as a thinker who established new foundations for the European scientific project. However, the political aspect of the Cartesian method is often overlooked. What were the socio-political reasons for Descartes’ turn to the cogito? Does...

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This article analyzes the trajectory of Argentinean intellectual Federico Pinedo, focusing on his political vision over three main points: mass society, political leadership and state. From them, is studied the author’s transit from his formation in the Socialist Party to liberal-conservative positi...

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The rivalry between Quito and Guayaquil is a long-term issue and has often been assessed by the Ecuadorian historiography. This paper aims at treating this question from a short-term perspective, by focusing on two events that came about in the wake of the Liberal Revolution, the expulsion of the li...

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