Miguel Ayuso, catedrático de la Facultad de Derecho (ICADE) de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid, fue presidente entre 2009 y 2019 de la Unión Internacional de Juristas Católicos (Roma), y lo sigue siendo del Grupo Sectorial en Ciencias Políticas de la Federación Internacional de Universidades Católicas (París) y del Consejo de Estudios Hispánicos Felipe II (Madrid). Autor de una veintena de libros de derecho público y filosofía jurídico-política, algunos de ellos traducidos a otras lenguas, dirige la revista Verbo, de formación cívica y acción cultural según el derecho natural y cristiano, fundada en 1961 por Eugenio Vegas Latapie y Juan Vallet de Goytisolo.La cultura política católica, especificación de la cultura política clásica, se halla en una grave crisis. Si en un primer momento combatió a la modernidad teoréticamente con tan sólo cesiones prácticas, de naturaleza táctica o estratégica, en un momento posterior ha llegado no sólo a depender de ella en su oposición, sino incluso a aceptarla, dimitiendo de la lucha y buscando el abrazo con el mundo. Este libro, al tiempo que traza la historia del problema, subraya las aporías de esa nueva situación presente.

The essays in this book analyze and explain the crisis of democratic representation in five Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In this region, disaffection with democracy, political parties, and legislatures has spread to an alarming degree. Many presidents have been forced from office, and many traditional parties have fallen by the wayside. These five countries have the potential to be negative examples in a region that has historically had strong demonstration and diffusion effects in terms of regime changes. "The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes" addresses an important question for Latin America as well as other parts of the world: Why does representation sometimes fail to work?

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain but the complexity of the controversial and sometimes violent relationships between Catholic values and modern political regimes continue to ride a precarious line of spiritual accommodation versus public policy. Leading experts on religious Spanish tradition and recent historiographic findings set out to define and interrogate grey areas in the last two centuries beyond the reductive conventional notion of an ever-warring "Two Spains." The Soul of the Nation unravels the role of religion in the country's public life following the imperial crisis of 1808 when the Catholic Monarchy put the role of the Church at heart of political and cultural debates.

Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and revise the insights of postcolonial studies in diverse Latin American contexts, ranging from the narratives of eighteenth-century travelers and clerics in the region to the status of indigenous intellectuals in present-day Colombia. The editors argue that the construction of an array of singular histories at the intersection of particular colonialisms and nationalisms must become the critical project of postcolonial history-writing. Challenging the universalizing tendencies of postcolonial theory as it has developed in the Anglophone academy, the contributors are attentive to the crucial ways in which the histories of Latin American countries—with their creole elites, hybrid middle classes, subordinated ethnic groups, and complicated historical relationships with Spain and the United States—differ from those of other former colonies in the southern hemisphere. Yet, while acknowledging such differences, the volume suggests a host of provocative, critical connections to colonial and postcolonial histories around the world. Contributors Thomas Abercrombie Shahid Amin Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Peter Guardino Andrés Guerrero Marixa Lasso Javier Morillo-Alicea Joanne Rappaport Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Mark Thurner