Hosting Information
- Offer Deadline
- EU Research Framework Programme
- H2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Country
- Spain
- City
- Madrid
Organisation/Institute
- Organisation / Company
- CSIC-Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales
- Department
- Instituto de Historia
- Laboratory
- Grupo de Estudios Americanos
- Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- Yes
Contact Information
- Organisation / Company Type
- Public Research Institution
- Website
- marta.irurozqui@cchs.csic.es
- State/Province
- Madrid
- Postal Code
- 28037
- Street
- Albasanz, 26-28
- Phone
Description
The purpose of this research project is to reflect on the tension between the principles of popular sovereignty and authority in Latin America throughout the 19th century. It seeks to illustrate from the study of the Legislative in its political and partisan dispute with the Executive, and other instances of authority, by the exercise of the revolution. For it is defended as a working hypothesis that in the first decades of republican life members of Congress were the architects and organizers of many of the pronouncements juntistas arguing reinstitute independence and national security. This occurred because the institutional and constitutional revolution allowed the legislature a way to become autonomous facing a presidential executive with -resulting Caesarist aspirations of both the weight of the monarchical experience as to counteract the inertia of dispersion of sovereignty.
This proposal involves a questioning of the topic on the marginality of Congress in the definition of public life due to historiographical prejudice to reduce it to governments involved in military caudillo practices. With the aim of offering a scenario of institutional operation thanks to the instituting action of society four sub-hypotheses will develop work concerning: 1) juntistas pronouncements transcended national level because Congress exercised direct intervention in them, acting -pueblo the various bodies and armed army subordinate manner. 2) Through the leadership of the revolutionary deed and the subsequent institutional renewal thereof, deputies attributed seeking a preeminent position in the exercise of national power as legitimate custodians of sovereignty. 3) The consolidation of the Legislative by-revolution post of legal-normative nature and repressive discursive actions were aimed at equating the independence of the Republic with the restoration of independence of the three powers and settle a change in the distribution of authority in the state (of cesarista to collegial) and governance (autocratic to constitutional). And 4) institutional behavior or action of the deputies it connected with the activities of the judges of the former colonial hearings or provincial delegates of the congress "separatists" developed during the emancipatory process. This does not identify them as equals, but emphasizes a tradition and institutional continuity from both bodies share an experience of corporate defense.
Such proposals will be approached from a critical conjugation of conceptualizations about institutional socio-analysis and state pluralism applied to the subject of collective action. A research strategy that privileges national case studies will be used to compare and compare the results, based on shared directional questions. It seeks to develop a constellation of experiences that generate theoretical reflections on legislative action based on the principle of historicity.