Examinando por Autor "Barbeito, Roberto L."

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Citizen Participation and Democratic Innovation in Spanish Local Governance
(Springer Nature, 2022-11-09) Barbeito, Roberto L.; Iglesias, Ángel H.
Through a documentary methodological strategy, which includes academic literature, official documents, and reports compiling experiences, this chapter examines the change in the structures of citizen participation that has taken place in Spanish local governments as a result of the transformative pressure exerted by new political actors and their experiences of democratic innovation over the past decade. The text presents the general features of the Spanish model before and after this change and also offers a panoramic view of the peculiarities exhibited by the participatory experiences of social and democratic innovation deployed by these new actors in local communities and governments. The chapter concludes that, in a uniquely favorable context, Spanish local governments were quite permeable to the transformation of the participation model, turning it into a transversal policy that fosters participatory democratic innovation. However, it is not clear whether this new policy (the so-called local participatory governance strategy) will withstand the change in the political cycle.
Claves de las migraciones afroeuropeas. Extracto del mayor desastre humanitario
(Universidad de San Buenaventura Cali, 2022-03-16) Gomariz Acuña, Tomás P.; Barbeito, Roberto L.
La crisis humanitaria en la frontera afroeuropea urge a revisar las políticas europeas de migración y refugio, caracterizadas, en Europa, por concepciones ultraproteccionistas. En realidad, las migraciones mediterráneas y africanas no justifican todas estas reservas. Las políticas europeas están creando daños personales irreparables y perjuicios a los fundamentos de nuestro ordenamiento, además de ayudar al crimen organizado. En este artículo se procede a una revisión documental tratando de contrastar las principales medidas practicadas con los resultados obtenidos, que se advierten profundamente negativos y atribuibles a esas políticas, en conjunción con la responsabilidad derivada de unos procesos de descolonización fuertemente tutorizados por las antiguas potencias coloniales. En sintonía con estas conclusiones, se postula un posicionamiento contrario al de las posturas restrictivas en política migratoria europea.
Covid-19 and the Response of Local Governance in Spain
(Springer Nature, 2022-11-09) Iglesias, Ángel H.; Gomariz, Tomás; Barbeito, Roberto L.
In Spain, the unexpected arrival of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, however its impact being of a local nature, came at a time of weakness for local governments, which have not yet recovered from the consequences of the austerity policies derived from the 2008 financial crisis and which, in Spain, have particularly affected the local level of government. In a decentralised political-administrative system such as the Spanish one, the spread of the virus beyond any political and administrative borders has led to the need to rethink its local governance system. In this context, the purpose of this contribution is to give an account of the initial impact of the pandemic on the existing local governance networks in Spain, in their various degrees of institutionalization, focusing our analysis on the public, private and third sector actor networks created "ad hoc" to face the public healthcare emergency aspects, as the foreseeable social and economic impacts, among others, are yet to materialize. We will look at the reasons behind creating these networks, their impact on existing networks, their main drivers and leadership, the innovations they have introduced, the challenges derived from coordination and management between public and private actors in an emergency, and the existence or lack of democratic control in decision-making processes. Our preliminary analysis will be based on the study of data so far collected from public actors (central, regional, and local governments), private actors (business organizations) and third sector actors (neighborhood associations). As far as is possible, and the situation permitting, this analysis includes interviews with critical public and private actors involved in the governance processes of the health crisis, as well as citizens, for they are the ultimate recipients and the party affected by the measures taken on the pandemic.