Health and Society

Security, elections and public policy: Do candidates listen to the citizens during campaigns?

By Mercedes Calzado
June 19, 2018

Crime has appeared as a central problem for citizens, politicians and the media in Latin America in last two decades. In this context, increased concerns about public safety impacts the political and electoral agenda. In Argentina, this process began at the end of the nineties but became especially prominent during the 2015 presidential election when all candidates forcefully supported more police, more video cameras, and more penalties.

Political participation and constitution-making: the case of Chile

By Claudia Heiss
June 5, 2018

The crisis of political representation is pushing contemporary democracies to search for new legitimating mechanisms, including higher levels of transparency, openness and participation in political decision-making. This trend is also reaching constitution-making, an area formerly restricted to experts and representatives. Participation and inclusiveness seem to be requisites for a Constitution to be legitimate and to produce adherence.

Partial Military Industry Reform: The Promise and Peril of Closing Ranks in Argentina, 1983-89

By Collin Grimes
May 21, 2018

In Argentina in 1983, ownership and management of a large domestic defense industry afforded the military power, autonomy, and a claim to economic rents. Between 1983-89, Argentina succeeded in its efforts to transfer management of the military defense industry to civilians, but not in its efforts to transfer ownership to civilians of that same sector—why? This work argued that this peculiar outcome had to do with the combined presence of high levels of military coalitional strength, and civilian institutional strength.

Riot and Fire kills 68 in Venezuelan Jail: The Pandemic of Prison Violence in Latin America

By Kristen Gugerli
April 12, 2018

In the early hours of Wednesday, March 28, a fire was ignited during a riot in a jail in Valencia, Venezuela, killing 66 inmates and 2 female visitors. The pandemic of violence and tragedies such as this in Latin American prisons can be explained by systemic problems of underfunding, overcrowding, and the strong presence and influence of gangs in Latin American prison systems.

VALIDACIÓN DE LA ESCALA DE CREENCIAS DE EFICACIA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA MATEMÁTICA (ECEEM) Y CARACTERIZACIÓN DE LAS CREENCIAS DE ESTUDIANTES DE PEDAGOGÍA BÁSICA

By Marco Verdugo, Rodrigo Asún, and Salomé Martínez
April 9, 2018

Tomando en cuenta la relevancia de que los estudiantes de Pedagogía tengan creencias positivas acerca de su futura eficacia como docentes y la ausencia de instrumentos validados en la población chilena que midan dicho constructo, en esta investigación se realizó la validación convergente y factorial de la Escala de Creencias de Eficacia en la Enseñanza de la Matemática (ECEEM), adaptación al español de la escala Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (MTEBI), validada en Estados Unidos en el año 2000.

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