Albuquerque, New Mexico, similar to many cities in the western and southwestern United States, continues to build large scale business and housing developments. In response, communities most affected by urban sprawl challenge local government decisions to approve such developments, citing concerns for environmental, cultural, and economic well-being. My thesis explores one such community effort to protect land and water resources within the historic Atrisco land grant, located southwest of the city of Albuquerque. In particular, I examine an event that occurred May 28th, 2015 when a group of concerned women and children disrupted a Bernalillo County special zoning meeting where a five member board of county commissioners denied community appeals to reject approval of a 14,000 acre development called Santolina. I employ ethnographic methods of in-depth interviews, participant observation, and secondary data collection to provide a rich description of the Women’s Action as an act of resistance. I situate my ethnographic account within the scholarship of Ewick and Silbey (1995; 1998; 2003) who empirically derive a theory of everyday acts of resistance as momentary reversals of hierarchical power relations embedded in institutional space. My research offers insights into how communities both engage in and disrupt public participation processes.

After what happened in 1989, the doctrine states that we are now in the “World Time of the Constitutional State”. But what are the implicationsof this? How has this impacted on the dispute of the German doctrine about the right comprehensionof the nature of the Constitution? Which shouldbe the labor of a Public Law and International Law professor in this context?In the present article, the author comments the indicated phenomenon, and, in order to do this, he uses figures such as the Cooperative Constitutional State, or the living constitutions. Constitutions, he states, aren’t just a product of constitutionalism, but many other factor must be taken into account. / Tras lo sucedido el año 1989, la doctrina señala que nos encontramos en “la Hora Mundial del Estado Constitucional”. Pero ¿cuáles son las implicanciasde ello? ¿Cómo ha impactado ello en la disputa dela doctrina alemana por la correcta comprensiónde la naturaleza de la Constitución? ¿Cuál debe serla labor del profesor de Derecho Público y Derecho Internacional en este contexto?En el presente texto, el autor comenta el fenómeno señalado y, para ello, recurre a figuras como la del Estado Constitucional Cooperativo, o la de las constituciones vivas. Las constituciones, afirma, no son solo producto del constitucionalismo, sino que múltiples otros factores deben ser tomados en cuenta.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T21:00:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Rafael Augusto Fernandes Biral.pdf.jpg: 2076 bytes, checksum: f3adc1ad9d09413ef7139e48848c0480 (MD5) Rafael Augusto Fernandes Biral.pdf.txt: 81485 bytes, checksum: 4467e4c22736a58996fcde0fddf730a4 (MD5) license.txt: 4712 bytes, checksum: 4dea6f7333914d9740702a2deb2db217 (MD5) Rafael Augusto Fernandes Biral.pdf: 351620 bytes, checksum: 576d312165e54562a3d0329bab70c5c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-10T00:00:00Z / This study investigates the change in operational performance of Brazilian companies that went the public in Brazil in the period between 2004 and 2008, using a methodology never applied to the study of a broad sample of Brazilian firms. Most of the previous Brazilian and international literature indicates a decrease in the operational performance of the companies after going public. Several factors explain this decreasing operational performance after the IPO, such as the aggravation of agency conflicts, information asymmetry, market timing, and window dressing. In the present study I analyze the performance of 69 Brazilian companies that went public between in this period. The results allow us to conclude that the companies that went public were more efficient than other publicly traded companies of comparable size in the same industry. It was possible to identify some change in the post-IPO operational performance, controlling for similar firms. / O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a mudança do desempenho operacional de empresas brasileiras que abriram capital no período de 2004 a 2008, utilizando uma metodologia ainda não usada em estudos que englobem uma amostra ampla de empresas brasileiras. A maioria dos trabalhos pesquisados, tanto brasileiros quanto internacionais, indicam queda do desempenho operacional das empresas após a abertura de capital. Na literatura, vários fatores e teorias são explicam a queda de desempenho operacional das empresas, tais como ampliação dos conflitos de agência, assimetria de informações, market timing, window dressing dos números do balanço pré-IPO, dentre outros. Neste estudo analisamos a performance de 69 empresas que abriram capital no período de 2004 a 2008. Os resultados encontrados permitem inferir que as empresas que abriram capital eram mais eficientes antes do IPO, comparadas a empresas de capital aberto do mesmo setor e tamanho semelhante não sendo possível identificar se houve mudança de desempenho operacional pós-IPO, controlando-se pelo desempenho de empresas similares.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:25:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andre Guilherme Lemos Jorge.pdf: 517315 bytes, checksum: 4a4d0a0917509a5848d9dcdc92707c0c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-10 / The objective of the following essay is to demonstrate how the constitutional principles of the rights to contest and of legal defense should be applied to the acts within the public prosecution. This kind of process is based in inquiring examination, which requires secrecy. To support the adversary practice here would, therefore, be an incongruent statement. After studying the evolution of the study of legal principles, we traced an epistemological division, to present the value and the reach of the laws constitutionally originated as fundamental rights. Now, appears the conflict between national security, represented by the secret investigation, against the due process of law, guarantied as an individual liberty. As an immediate consequence of the due process of law, we find the right to contest and the right of legal defense, concluding that the State of Law will only achieve its plenitude when all aspects of legitimate defense become effectively guarantied. Intending to penetrate profoundly within the inquisition instrument, centered as object of this essay; we drove through the roads traced by experts in Public Law, in innumerous attempts to define the series of acts and facts bonded in the heart of the Public Administration. The administrative process is a conquest of conceptual revolution, aroused after many debates, mainly when we determined the exact limits between the State functions. The Public District Attorney Office, once born to cohibit arbitrary acts, originated from the concentration of inquisitor and decision making powers in the hands of the sovereign one, now tends to insert itself in this power concentrating position. One of its most powerful instruments, the public prosecution, attributes to each member of the D.A. Office a compound of immense investigatory powers, a fact that per se, is enough to embrace the present theory. The conclusion arrived, giving prestige to modern public process policies and demanding the effectiveness of constitutional principles, lines itself in a parallel position to the world search for the materialization of human rights / O presente trabalho tem por finalidade demonstrar que os princípios constitucionais do contraditório e da ampla defesa devem ser aplicados aos atos que se encadeiam durante o curso do inquérito civil. Buscou-se em toda a dissertação demonstrar a incongruência presente na afirmação de que, por ser inquisitorial o processo, inexistiria espaço para a concretização de diversos aspectos da contrariedade. A partir do estudo da evolução da principiologia, foi traçado um corte epistemológico, para enfim apresentar o valor e o alcance das normas erigidas constitucionalmente como direitos fundamentais. Surge o embate entre a segurança social, representada pela inquisitoriedade pura e, de outro lado, o devido processo legal, assegurador da liberdade individual. Como decorrência imediata do devido processo legal, encontram-se o contraditório e a ampla defesa, pelo que a conclusão será que o Estado de Direito somente atingirá sua plenitude quando se garantir a efetividade plena a todos os aspectos da defesa. A fim de adentrar em definitivo no instrumento inquisitorial objeto do trabalho, serão percorridos os caminhos traçados pelos administrativistas, nas inúmeras tentativas de definir a sucessão de atos e fatos ocorridos no seio da Administração Pública. O processo administrativo é uma conquista da evolução conceitual, após infindáveis debates, sobretudo quando delimitamos o exato limite entre as funções do Estado. A instituição do Ministério Público, nascida para coibir arbitrariedades advindas da concentração de poderes investigatórios e decisórios nas mãos do soberano, acaba por se inserir no espectro das atividades estatais. Um de seus instrumentos mais poderosos, o inquérito civil, atribui a cada membro do parquet, uma gama imensa de poderes investigatórios, fato que, por si só, seria suficiente para embasar a presença da defesa. A conclusão a que se chega, ao prestigiar a moderna processualística administrativa e exigir a efetividade dos princípios constitucionais, alinha-se à busca mundial pela concretização dos direitos humanos