Since the transition to democracy in the late 1970s, Spain has undergone a process of deep decentralization and an incipient federalization. This article analyses the main features of such processes underlying the high level of home rule achieved by the 17 Comunidades Autonomas , when compared...

En las páginas siguientes hacemos un repaso general acerca de cómo la cuestión de los recursos naturales y, especialmente, el agua, han ido incorporándose a los razonamientos económicos de una forma progresiva. Como veremos, esto no significa que nos encontremos ante un marco teórico nuevo...

En una economía de mercado, los distintos bienes económicos tratan de gestionarse buscando la máxima eficiencia, sobre todo para los propietarios. La gestión colectiva se aplica en el caso de algunos bienes con características específicas, tales como la dificultad de su divisibilidad y...

Europeanization implies that policies are to be shaped by considerations which go beyond the formal sovereignty of EU’s member states. Claims for autonomy within the EU have been put forward not only by ‘stateless’ nations within plural and compound states, but also by regions demanding...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important undertaking by corporations in order to advance social citizenship. In the last decades a growing implication of businesses and NGOs in welfare development has run hand in hand with a noticeable increase of both: (a) the for-profit welfare...

Después de la crisis financiera desencadenada en 2008, los Estados del Bienestar europeos encaran el reto de renovar el pacto entre bienestar social y progreso económico, responsable de la satisfacción vital de los europeos y la cohesión de sus sociedades. La resistencia del EB español...

Male partners of female sex workers are rarely targeted by HIV prevention interventions in the commercial sex industry, despite recognition of their central role and power in condom use negotiation. Social networks offer a naturally existing social structure to increase male participation in...