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Vivienda social periurbana en Santiago de Chile: la exclusión a escala regional del trasurbanita de Santiago de Chile

The location of peri-urban social housing in Santiago de Chile has been broadly studied from political and territorial implications, however, little do we know about the impact of urbanization in the

Resilience and Socio-Ecological Literacy in the territory

as a political movement that helps people to help themselves (Ellerman, 2005). This requires processes that see potential and strengths within communities instead of seeing only limitations and ... stop generating strategies that create sustainable territories that dispose their waste to other pieces of land with less possibilities of carrying out political, economic, social, or cultural activities

Descentralización para la equidad

logic; while other, the socialization of the political, administrative and economic power. Two countries of federal tradition, Mexico and Brazil and two unitary ones, Colombia and Bolivia help to ... to justify the need of a strategic package of reforms towards the social, political and territorial equity. Keywords: decentralization, Latin America, neoliberalism, socialization of the power

Questioning the Nation: Ambivalent Narratives in Le Retour au désert by Bernard-Marie Koltès

must develop the traditional philosophy of French national understanding as defined by Jules Michelet, Maurice Barrès, and Ernst Renan, three thinkers credited with developing the specifically French ... Michelet is a key figure for this philosophy, and he argues that French history begins with the formalization of the French language. As he notes in his History of France, “The history of France begins with

La planeación de transferencias hacia los municipios jalisciences: principios de equidad y no discriminación

We study the planning of intergovernmental transferences to the 125 municipalities of Jalisco, Mexico. Particularly, we assess how the normative principles of equity and political nondiscrimination ... ' planning data for the 2005-2011 period. Keywords: intergovernmental transferences, governmental planning, equity principle, political nondiscrimination principle, municipalities.   Introducción1 En

Ciclo político presupuestal y gobiernos con y sin mayoría en México, 1994 y 2006

In order to substantiate the evidence of political budget cycle (PBC) in Mexico, this essay examines the federal budget before and after the presidential elections of 1994 and 2006. Previous studies ... government the composition of the Chamber of Deputies encourages PBC; whereas, under a divided government, it cannot prevent it altogether. Keywords: political budget cycle, federal budget, public

Ingreso familiar como método de medición de la pobreza: estudio de caso en dos localidades rurales de Tepetlaoxtoc

neoliberalism as political-economic factors that have fostered in increment of poverty in Mexico and the methods that are currently used to measure it. Later on, the results are mentioned after carrying out a

Responsabilizar a los migrantes del desarrollo: lecciones del laboratorio social zacatecano

, namely: family subsistence by remittances, transnational participative development, local economic development based on remittances and political development with migrant participation. We conclude that ... .         [ Links ] Guarnizo, Luis (1998), "The Rise of Transnational Social Formations: Mexican and Dominican State Responses to Transnational Migration", Political Power and Social Theory, 12, San Diego, pp. 45

La individualización del mundo rural: Dimensiones analíticas para ¿un concepto generalizable?

development of individual rights. At the same time, in the rural space these processes present different dimensions: territorial, social, perceptive and political; all with different "positive" and "negative ... Rural Studies, 17(1), pp. 63–80 (2001); "Agri–environmental policy in Spain. The agenda for socio–political developments at the national, regional and local levels", Journal of Rural Studies, 17(1), pp

Procesos y actores en la conformación del suelo urbano en el ex lago de Texcoco

, area delimitation and fractioning as well clandestine sells and purchases which eventually have made the land suitable for conurbation with Mexico City. In this process a number of economic, political

Relación entre el Estado descentralizado y la sociedad civil territorial: contexto, bondades y limitaciones en América Latina

the descentralisation processes and some of their characteristics in relationship to the political discourses from which they emerged. Finally, we evaluate the benefits of this relationship and most

Particle and Fibre Toxicology, a new journal to meet a real need

generation and characterisation, to animal, cell and human toxicology studies, dosimetry and modelling. The editorial also deals with the philosophy and practicalities of Open Access publishing, the journal's

Roundtable: Wikidemia? Scholarly Publishing on the World Wide Web

potential and realized effects of online publishing are pertinent to an issue where many of the papers engage with the notion of boundaries, genre, and new (textual, psychological, geographical, political

Inequitable distribution of green public space in Mexico City: an environmental injustice case

scholars have concluded that, in order to fully understand what justice is, it is necessary to analyze the legal, economic, historic, cultural, social, and political processes that result in urban landscapes ... ; Bjerke et al., 2006; Bowler et al., 2010; Cao et al., 2010; Nicholls, 2001). In a sense this type of research obscures the historical, social, and political extent of space and its use in cities

Una reflexión teórica sobre estándares de áreas verdes empleados en la planeación urbana

Emeterio, Nieves (2014), Nueva economía institucional, Síntesis, Madrid, España. [ Links ] Sen, Amartya (1977), "Rational fools: a critique of the behavioral foundations of economic theory", Philosophy ... & Public Affairs, 6 (4), Princeton University Press, New York, Estados Unidos de América, pp. 317-344. [ Links ] Simon, Herbert (1985), “Human nature in politics: the dialogue of psychology with political

Imitation, learning and the founding of a new organization: the creation of the Mexican board of tourist promotion

Representatives, aimed at changing the Federal Tourism Law. This bill demonstrated a high level of consensus in the political sphere and the law was approved unanimously, creating a new body whose purpose was to ... stand out as more bureaucratic and clientelistic. Political involvement at the Ministry level was fundamental for establishing the Board. Our examination of the MBTP illustrates how the weak frontiers

Imitation, learning and the founding of a new organization: the creation of the Mexican board of tourist promotion

Representatives, aimed at changing the Federal Tourism Law. This bill demonstrated a high level of consensus in the political sphere and the law was approved unanimously, creating a new body whose purpose was to ... stand out as more bureaucratic and clientelistic. Political involvement at the Ministry level was fundamental for establishing the Board. Our examination of the MBTP illustrates how the weak frontiers

Bureaucratic discretion and legislative oversight on the budget process in Mexico 2001-2012

programs as they wish. The paper proceeds in four sections. First, I address the institutionalist approach for political control of bureaucrats, which is the most influential framework used to analyze ... effectiveness of legislative oversight over the budget process during the first twelve years of Mexico's democracy.3   1. The institutional approach for political control of bureaucrats Bureaucracies in

Bureaucratic discretion and legislative oversight on the budget process in Mexico 2001-2012

programs as they wish. The paper proceeds in four sections. First, I address the institutionalist approach for political control of bureaucrats, which is the most influential framework used to analyze ... effectiveness of legislative oversight over the budget process during the first twelve years of Mexico's democracy.3   1. The institutional approach for political control of bureaucrats Bureaucracies in

Two decades of re-aligning mundane entrepreneurship in Cuba

economic and political literatures that the entrepreneurial spirit can only survive in market economies. Rehn and Taalas (2004: 236) outline this conceptual dilemma in this way: “[w]e tend to look at ... . Figure 1 Self-employed works in Cuba, 1994-2013 (*000a).  The regulatory environment for these workers has long been shifting and convoluted, but it is tethered to the island’s political economy in key