POLITICAL SYSTEMS

Author: BENEITEZ ROMERO M. BENITA.
Year: 2003.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICOS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: Study of the political concept of ciudadanía.Se defienen and four developed theoretical models of citizenship: the liberal, libertarian, Republican, and the community. For the configuration of these models contemporary ciudadaná, using the theoretical work of four major social scientists : Jonh Rawls for citizenship liberal Robert Nozick for citizenship libetaría: Jurgen Habermas for citizenship Republican, and Charles Taylor for citizenship comunitaria.Las features and elements that make up each of these modelo0s cause to a fruitful Contemporary Political Theory debate on the concept of citizenship. precedent are configured as two historical models: the citizenship of the city of Antigà ¼ age and citizenship of ciudades-repúblicas Italian.

Author: MOTA CONSEJERO FABIOLA.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA - UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE.

Summary: This thesis deals with the conditions fostering democratic governance. In particular, analyzes the political performance demonstrated by the Spanish Autonomous Communities during the nineties and explores whether the observed differences are related to major exogenous and endogenous factors observed in the theories of development and democratic political performance. From a comparative perspective, this research collects empirical evidence that supports the hypothesis that the political governance of the autonomous communities has a direct effect on the political performance of the same. The higher score conditions of governance, in terms of continuity of the holder of the presidency autonomous, parliamentary majorities, monocolor majority governments, and stability of the executive branch, the greater the performance shown by autonomous institutions and the political system autonomy. Also, there is the capital of the autonomous regions and their levels of economic development and modernization, which are considered the major exogenous factors explaining the development and the democratic political performance. The main hypothesis contrasted in the thesis argues that the effect of these variables on the performance of Greenland is only indirect, mediated through the political process and the design of the institutions. The results support of this thesis, and in fact, the share capital of the autonomous regions is not related to the performance levels achieved by the same policy. However, it is noted that levels of social capital and economic development of autonomies Spanish are closely associated in a positive way. This result supports the thesis that the equity directly affects the political development rather than the democratic political institutional performance.