Cinema underlines -even from fiction- a way to understand the past from the present and, therefore, an intention to manage historical memory. This article -in this way- tries to appreciate -from the choice of five films which are about the Nazi phenomenon- how it is presented in the European...

Robert Michel's main work is "Political parties. A Sociological Study on the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy", issued in 1911, which is an analysis on the internal organization evolving dynamics of the German Social-Democrat Party (SDP), to which the author was intensely attached for...

Book review of Pleshakov, C. (2007): "La locura de Stalin", Paidós, Barcelona.

This paper analyses the evolution of the leading market social economy organisations in Spain since the Constitution of 1978. The first part concerns a study of co-operatives and workers societies; the second refers to mutual societies. An analysis of the institutional framework, this sector's...

El trabajo efectúa un análisis de la evolución del sector ferroviario durante la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939). Se trata de un tema que hasta el momento ha recibido una escasa atención y que consideramos puede ayudar a comprender el comportamiento de uno de los principales sectores...

Inside the long term perspective offered by the whole process of industrialisation in Spain and particularly over the 20C, the last 25 years of democracy, show an outstanding positive net balance in terms of economic modernisation, above all if this is measured not just in growth rate of per...

The Spanish Constitution in article 129.2 establishes a mandate (and thus an imperative order) to the state powers to promote the figures and mechanisms of the social economy. This support is juxtaposed to the constitutional rules defining the Spanish economic and bs system The roots of the...

Though in 1978, when the constitution was established, the scientific conception of social economy did not exist, the Magna Carta through different statutes does refer explicitly or implicitly to the different social agents who comprise the social economy: co-operatives, labour associations,...

Book review of Attinà, F.; Rossi, R. (2004): "The European Union Neighbourhood Policy", Centro Jean Monnet "Euro-Med", Departamento de Estudios Políticos. Università di Catania

En las páginas que siguen se estudia, siguiendo las vicisitudes biográficas de un ingeniero militar madrileño y más tarde director de empresas, la formación de un grupo empresarial que se ocupó de la promoción industrial y de la gestión de servicios públicos en las provincias de Granada...