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Introduction
Amparo Novo currently works at the Department of Sociology, University of Oviedo. Amparo does research in Political Organizations and Parties, Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior and Comparative Politics. Their current project is 'GRUPO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN SOCIOLOGÍA DE LA ALIMENTACIÓN '.
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El Consumo Político Alimentario estriba en la capacidad para elegir o rechazar productos provocando cambios institucionales, éticos y transformaciones del mercado de la alimentación. Dicha capacidad electiva supone una de las principales estructuraciones sociales actuales presentándose como una posibilidad de los actores que deben llenar sus biogra...
Este libro constituye un esfuerzo colectivo y académico de reflexión sobre la situación de precarización alimentaria que viven muchas personas en España desde el surgimiento de la crisis económica en el año 2008. Una propuesta que analiza las desigualdades existentes en materia de alimentación, visibiliza las estrategias desarrolladas por los indiv...
The term Smart City has gained a lot of attention lately. While there is no unique definition of a Smart City, this chapter focuses on governance issues and in particular, on the use of information and communication technologies to facilitate and boost citizens’ engagement in public life and decision-making. Specifically, the aim is to analyze the...
El libro se publicó en Tirant lo Blanch, en el marco de un proyecto europeo sobre Desarrollo Sostenible Urbano Integrado, que lideró Rosario Ibáñez, catedrática de la Universidad de Oviedo.
En el texto se recogen las aportaciones presentadas sobre el tema en un congreso celebrado en Granada este mismo año.
Based on an integrated perspective of political representation, this chapter identifies the main gender differences in MPs’ traits and seniority in politics and investigates whether the feminization of parliaments impacts on how representation is exercised. We find that female and male MPs have a similar preparation, which debunks the meritocracy a...
Conscious consumers convert their buying habits into political habits, both through their individual actions and by participating in social movements, thus changing the market into a public arena and an area to practice democracy. In this article, we analyse what factors predict the behaviour of conscious consumers and of conscious consumers with a...
The aim of this paper is to further explore the drivers behind the decision of citizens to engage in social and political participation on the internet, since mixed empirical evidence has been found in the literature. Using data from the 2011 survey on the use of information and communications technologies by households and individuals in Spain, th...
El consumo politico o political consumerism es una forma de participacion en la que la ciudadania utiliza el mercado para expresar sus preocupaciones politicas. Realizar la compra de un producto (buycott) o no (boycott) es una decision personal justificada, basada en valoraciones eticas, medioambientales o politicas que se hacen de los procedimient...
The aim of this paper is to show some empirical evidence on the factors driving social and political participation in the Internet in Spain. Using the well-known resources approach in the literature on social and political participation, our general assumption is that the different types of resources that citizens have (individual resources, group...
This article addresses the role of the media agenda in the context of political polarization that has predominated in Spain over the last decade. Starting from a first hypothesis regarding the relationship between political polarization and the median voter, the article focuses not only on the ability of the media to impose and manage a specific th...
Over a century after the suffragists' struggle to overcome women´s political inequality, there are still significant, observable differences in women's access to positions of political power, and notwithstanding the quota system that the Spanish Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) implemented in the mid 1980s in order to increase women's repre...
Más de un siglo después de haberse iniciado la lucha de las sufragistas por la superación de la desigualdad política femenina, todavía hoy se siguen observando diferencias en las oportunidades de acceso de la mujer a los puestos de poder político, a pesar de que a partir de mediados los años ochenta se introduce el sistema de cuotas en España, de l...
This article begins by presenting the current status and trends of the presence of women in positions of political responsibility in international, national and regional parliaments in Spain). Specifically, it examines the case of Asturias, where in addition to acknowledging the considerable increase in the number of women in parliament, we identif...
The inequality and the marginalization that the woman continues supporting in the public life and in the instances of decision are motivated by the patriarchy. Among all the factors that affect in its perpetuation, in this article we analyzed those that derives from the discrimination in the familiar space and those generated by the absence of a tr...
La comprensión de las estrategias y la interacción de los medios de comunicación de masas y de los partidos políticos pasa por identificar, por un lado, la manera como los mensajes de los medios son elaborados para influir en la percepción de los electores (construcción de la agenda política) y, por otro, la estrategia del partido en la planificaci...
SOCIAL CHANGE AND INITIATIVES FOR THE ELDERLY: Step towards a new role Hasta hace no muchos años, y aún hoy, un cierto paternalismo compasivo cuando no un rechazo apenas disimulado, estaba instalado en nuestra sociedad hacia las personas mayores. Sin duda, la ausencia de un rol social global reconocido que jugar en nuestra sociedad parece tener que...
