Teoría política
Este libro de Sheldon Wolin es un clásico de la teoría política occidental. Discute Platón, Lutero, Calvino, Maquiavelo, Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, y temas como el poder, el liberalismo, la justicia y la democracia.
Descarga libre: https://t.co/jBquCx6z8M
#ÚLTIMO Increíble momento cuando una persona sin cuerdas y un casco de moto sube para rescatar a una persona desde un apartamento colapsado en Residencias Belo Horizonte en Catia.
PAREN TODO, EL GOAT DE LA PORTERÍA COLOMBIANA YA ESTÁ AQUÍ 🐐🇨🇴
Apenas van tres partidos y el portero del Atlas, Camilo Vargas, ya hizo las dos mejores atajadas de la Copa Mundial 2026.
El gol que le sacó al jugador del Manchester United es IRREAL 🔥
📢 Tras 101 años de historia, la mítica Onda Larga de la BBC se apagó para siempre a las 00:00 UTC. Así ha sido su último minuto después del famoso Shipping Forecast: las notas del God Save the King y poco después un aviso de cese de emisiones automatizado... 😢 🇬🇧👇 #BBC#LW 📻
🇻🇪🇦🇷 | El entrenador de la selección argentina, Lionel Scaloni, expresó públicamente su profunda solidaridad con el pueblo venezolano ante la compleja situación que atraviesa el país, manifestando sus condolencias y haciendo un llamado a la comunidad internacional para brindar apoyo humanitario.
AP's Juan Arraez was in Venezuela when a devastating double earthquake ravaged the country on Wednesday. Today, he captured footage of citizens digging through the rubble of their homes, saying they have seen few state rescue teams in the areas hit hardest by the devastating 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude quakes.
AP Video/Juan Arraez
Polémica entre cristianos y paganos: a través de los textos. Problemas existenciales y problemas vivenciales.
Editor: E. Sánchez
Temática: Religión, Cristianismo
Editorial: Akal
Link: https://t.co/Bv2xakPn8x
Apóyanos en: https://t.co/7OUkfIqg0t
🔴 #URGENTE | Autoridades reportan el colapso de decenas de edificios, incendios y fallas masivas de servicios en el estado La Guaira, declarado zona de desastre tras los devastadores terremotos.
🔴⚫️ Aún que no soy colombiano me alegra ver jugar a el portero de mi equipo, una copa del mundo con su selección!
Toda la buena ídolo Camilo Vargas 🙏🏼
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Francis Fukuyama recently shared a compelling piece titled “The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency” by political scientists Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning (Aarhus University / V-Dem project).
The article dismantles the popular notion that authoritarian regimes—particularly China—are simply better at “getting things done.” Drawing on historical data and comparative evidence, the authors argue that democracies consistently outperform autocracies over the long term across critical domains:
• Military effectiveness: Democracies have won more than 80% of wars since 1815. Greater legitimacy enables citizens to make greater sacrifices, and democratic alliances prove more durable.
• Economic performance: While autocracies can drive catch-up growth to middle-income levels, they struggle to transition to innovation-driven, knowledge economies that require rule of law, intellectual property protection, and open debate. High-quality democracies show a modest but robust long-run growth advantage.
• Avoiding catastrophe: Autocracies periodically produce large-scale man-made disasters (Mao’s Great Leap Forward, Soviet collectivization). Institutional checks and public scrutiny in democracies make comparable failures rare.
• Crisis management & environment: Transparency, independent science, and accountability lead to better outcomes on pandemics, climate policy, and environmental indicators. China’s zero-COVID flip-flop and overstated economic statistics illustrate the risks of centralized, unaccountable decision-making.
The authors acknowledge democracies can be slow and messy, but emphasize that self-correction mechanisms ultimately make them more resilient and effective than systems that concentrate power without feedback loops.
Francis Fukuyama, author of the landmark book The End of History and the Last Man, continues to spark important conversations about the enduring strengths of liberal democracy in an era of renewed authoritarian confidence.
Full article (highly recommended):
https://t.co/rdLYptPLnY
What’s your take—do you see evidence of this “myth” playing out in emerging markets or great-power competition today?
#Democracy #Geopolitics #China #EmergingMarkets #InternationalRelations #PoliticalEconomy