Judicial Review and Rights Protection in Mexico: The Limits of the 2011 Amparo Reform
The paper critically discusses the potential impact of the much-awaited 2011 Mexican constitutional reform on the amparo writ, in connection with other changes the Mexican constitutional system has recently undergone. It reaches pretty pessimistic conclusions, arguing that much more should have been done to put amparo in conditions to operate effectively in terms of rights protection. The paper includes a historic overview that describes the structure of the writ and identifies some of the causes behind its current procedural complexity. And it argues that, although the reform improves to some degree access conditions as well as the kind of remedies the amparo judge can adopt, the changes are shy, and they do not significantly diminish an utterly unacceptable degree of procedural complexity. Regulatory obscurity and the impossibility of reasonably foreseeing what the filing of an amparo will end up delivering in terms of rights protection will continue to set significant barriers and keep amparo away from ordinary citizens.
Acceso a la justicia y nuevas formas de participación en la esfera política
El presente articulo pretende identificar situaciones-tipo en las que el poder judicial ha asumido la tarea de verificar estandares juridicos en el diseno y ejecucion de politicas publicas relacionadas con la garantia de derechos economicos, sociales y culturales, y derechos civiles y politicos. A partir del estudio de sentencias proferidas por tribunales nacionales e internacionales, se establecen cuatro posibles tipos de intervencion de los jueces en este campo. Por ultimo, se analiza la intervencion judicial para garantizar la participacion de grupos y movimientos sociales en el diseno y toma de decisiones relacionadas con dichas politicas.
Self-responsibility in health care/promotion: motivational factors.
This paper explores motivational factors at play in self-responsibility in health care and promotion. If people do not take responsibility for their health status, is it because they can not or will not? "Can" refers to the ability or skill to do something, while "will" refers to intention and effort. Each of these factors are analyzed in terms of their role as a cause of behavior in self-responsibility for the health status. Educational intervention to motivate self-responsibility is suggested as well as empirical research in how people attribute health outcomes.