Leigh Gilmore
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231177146
- eISBN:
- 9780231543446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231177146.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
Chapter two traces Rigoberta Menchú’s search for an adequate witness from the interview she gave that became an international best seller to her recent vindication in Guatemalan court. The chapter ...
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Chapter two traces Rigoberta Menchú’s search for an adequate witness from the interview she gave that became an international best seller to her recent vindication in Guatemalan court. The chapter goes on to identify and analyze two histories – the history of scandal and the history of testimony – as Menchú’s life story and life work move from book to documentary film to court. Finally the chapter theorizes that by following both histories, we can better understand how testimony travels within a network, how it halts or continues, and how multiple audiences receive it.Less
Chapter two traces Rigoberta Menchú’s search for an adequate witness from the interview she gave that became an international best seller to her recent vindication in Guatemalan court. The chapter goes on to identify and analyze two histories – the history of scandal and the history of testimony – as Menchú’s life story and life work move from book to documentary film to court. Finally the chapter theorizes that by following both histories, we can better understand how testimony travels within a network, how it halts or continues, and how multiple audiences receive it.
Bruno S. Frey
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262062770
- eISBN:
- 9780262273213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262062770.003.0014
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Econometrics
Economic policy can play a key role in establishing fundamental institutions that allow individuals to achieve the level of happiness to which they aspire. Two basic political institutions that ...
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Economic policy can play a key role in establishing fundamental institutions that allow individuals to achieve the level of happiness to which they aspire. Two basic political institutions that strongly influence happiness are direct democracy and federalism. This chapter examines the link between well-being and the direct political participation rights of the citizens via popular initiatives and referenda. It discusses the effects of decentralization of political units—such as provinces, states, or political communes—on citizen’s well-being. It shows that these decentralized units have no impact on outcomes unless they have a significant amount of power to decide for themselves. For this reason, the sub-units must have taxation power. The chapter also describes a new form of federalism called Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions designed to overcome the major drawbacks of existing forms of federalism.Less
Economic policy can play a key role in establishing fundamental institutions that allow individuals to achieve the level of happiness to which they aspire. Two basic political institutions that strongly influence happiness are direct democracy and federalism. This chapter examines the link between well-being and the direct political participation rights of the citizens via popular initiatives and referenda. It discusses the effects of decentralization of political units—such as provinces, states, or political communes—on citizen’s well-being. It shows that these decentralized units have no impact on outcomes unless they have a significant amount of power to decide for themselves. For this reason, the sub-units must have taxation power. The chapter also describes a new form of federalism called Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions designed to overcome the major drawbacks of existing forms of federalism.
