State of Exception as Economic Policy: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Puerto Rican Colonial Case

State of Exception as Economic Policy: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Puerto Rican Colonial Case

This article argues that the Puerto Rican colonial-economic, political and legal development has been based on the state of exception. By analyzing the Puerto Rican constitutional history and the sociopolitical events taking place after the 1980’s it shows that in PR, a double exceptionali...

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Main Author: Jose Manuel Atiles-Osoria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2018-12-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
Subjects:
State of Exception
Colonialism
Economic Crisis
Puerto Rico
Depoliticization
Estado de excepción
colonialismo
crisis económicas y financieras
despolitización
Online Access:http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/973

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