Abstract Post-revolutionary Spanish America barely features in existing scholarship on nineteenth-century British political and social thought. But the region was widely discussed, raised distinctive issues about republican government, effects of colonial rule, operation absolute power. This article examines how debated autarchic dictatorship erected newly independent Paraguay. Their attempts t...

The well-known Impossibility Theorem of Arrow asserts that any Generalized Social Welfare Function (GSWF) with at least three alternatives, which satisfies Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA) and Unanimity and is not a dictatorship, is necessarily nontransitive. In 2002, Kalai asked whether one can obtain the following quantitative version of the theorem: For any > 0, there exists δ =...

focuses mostly on democracy (Arato 1981; Paxton 2002; Putnam 1993; Wuthnow 1991). This analysis investigates instead the relationship between associationism and authoritarianism. I explore how the strength of the associational sphere influenced the degree of regime hegemony in two cases of interwar European authoritarianism: the Italian fascist regime and the Spanish dictatorship of Miguel Prim...

After almost forty years since the end of Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, many wounds are still open in a society marked by trauma and efforts to obtain fair reparations as result crimes human rights violations committed for more than twenty years. When thinking about reparations, it is possible visualize heritage way materialize, discuss, communicate contested silenced memories, given i...