DE LA (NON) DÉMOCRATIE EN AMÉRIQUE (LATINE) A TOCQUEVILLE REPORT ON THE STATE OF GOVERNANCE IN LATIN AMERICA

Conceptualizing Governance in Latin America

Due to the diversity of interpretations and definitions given in Latin America to the terms gobernabilidad and gobernanza, this paper brings together and compares these definitions with the concepts of the Anglo-Saxon terms: governance and governability. After an anthropological analysis of these concepts, it proposes a definition of governance which could be applied in international cooperatio...

Reproductive governance in Latin America.

This paper develops the concept of reproductive governance as an analytic tool for tracing the shifting political rationalities of population and reproduction. As advanced here, the concept of reproductive governance refers to the mechanisms through which different historical configurations of actors - such as state, religious, and international financial institutions, NGOs, and social movement...

Sur la frequence de leptospirose en Iran

Sur la fréquence de leptospirose en Iran

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...