After the seventeenth century, rulers across Europe attempted reforms to replace amateur administrators with professional bureaucrats. The success of administrative reforms hinged on whether rulers could compensate entrenched ...

The recent rise of social protest in Latin America has con-tradicted the hypotheses that predicted neoliberal reforms would weaken social movements in the region. In this re-spect, the Chilean student movement is paradigmatic ...

This article’s aim is to provide, through a case study, new insights into current research on the civic education policies that encompassed the transition from authoritarian to democratic political regimes that took place ...

The school is a modern invention that solves an old social problem: that of raising children. Paradoxically, the room in which children are indoctrinated is also the one in which most critical social uprisings and revolts ...

This study analyses the role played by emotions in protest. In the current explanatory models, anger is the sole emotion associated with these actions. But is anger the only motive capable of mobilising citizens to defend ...

This study analyses the role played by emotions in protest. In the current explanatory models, anger is the sole emotion associated with these actions. But is anger the only motive capable of mobilising citizens to defend ...

News discourse is one of the most influential media genres (Van Dijk, 1995; Richardson, 2007; Talbot, 2007) and its apparent objectivity and neutrality has been rejected by many authors (Fowler, 1991; Fairclough, 1995 and ...