Is The Revolution Over ?

s 44. Is The Revolution Over? A History of the Concept and its Political Valoration mauricio ricciardi In the vocabulary of historical and political transformations, the term “revolution” has occupied a prominent position and played a decisive role at different historical periods. In addition, a semantic field has been articulated around it which has integrated and altered the modalities and the possibility of referring to other key concepts of political modernity. This article analyzes the secular process of political transformation of the concept of revolution. Research Systems and Policies, Development and Innovation. Some Proposals salvador estrada and raúl pacheco-vega The concept of innovation policy is elusive and it has appeared recently in scholarly discourse (previously concentrated on discussions on technology and science management). The present article offers a wide-scope analysis which had not previously been carried out on the field of public policies focused on promoting innovative activities in Mexican companies. The article shows that in spite of the fact that there are numerous converging elements in the literature, there are still some gaps. Said gaps offer the researchers interested in this topic a large number of avenues for new research projects on innovation policies. The Transformation of the Health and Labor Insurance System in Argentina victoria haidar In 1995 the legislation on work accidents and diseases was transformed in Argentina, and the Sistema de Riesgos del Trabajo (System of Work Hazards) was installed. This conAbstracts No. 44 Espiral, Estudios sobre Estado y Sociedad Vol. XV No. 44  Enero / Abril de 2009 277 278 Abstracts 44 tribution concentrates on analyzing, on one hand, the tactical mobilization of legal recourses in the framework of a strategy that has promoted and defended reform of the said law in a neo-liberal sense. And on the other hand, the pragmatic alignment of juridical norms and principles within the opposite strategy, that intends to organize the management of work hazards according to a program of protection of waged labor. To this end, we have resorted to conceptual tools produced by the approaches of governmentality studies and discourse analysis. Illiberal Democrats. Contradictory Configurations Supporting Democrracy in Mexico andreas schedler and rodolfo sarsfield The major comparative public opinion surveys measure popular support to democracy by means of direct questions on democracy in the abstract sense. However, as the citizens may have divergent concepts of what democracy is, we do not know to what extent standard questions capture citizen support to liberal democracy. In order to solve the validity problems undergone by direct, abstract measures on democracy support, we propose to link them to indirect, more concrete measures of support to democratic principles and institutions. We use the statistic technique of conglomerate analysis to establish this link. This method allows to us to group the people surveyed in a way so that that complex and inconsistent attitudinal profiles can be captured. It allows us to identify “democrats with adjectives” who support democracy in the abstract sense, while they reject central principles of liberal democracy. We prove how fruitful this approach is by drawing a map of “illiberal democrats” in Mexico, on the basis of the Encuesta Nacional sobre Cultura Política 2005 (National Survey on