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The sub-national public spending studies in Mexico have increased in the last years. Nevertheless, it is unknown if the party ideology has an effect on it. Therefore, this paper explores whether this variable influences on the public expenditure. Based on the case of Jalisco, this research compares PAN and PRI governments to show their decisions on public expenditure. The results show that the panista government gave more resources to public investment, education and rural development; meanwhile the priista government gave more to public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article has as objective to analyze the emergence in El Salvador of family farming and the social category family farmer. To that purpose, this article uses mainly two theoretical concepts: family farming and policy transfer. Evidence suggests that the appropriation of the social category "family farmer" in El Salvador responds to an update of formerly used concepts small producer or commercial producer. Hence, it's not possible to find technical, theoretical or methodological grounds to justify the use of family farmer as new social category in El Salvador. The adoption of family farmer comes as a result of a policy transfer enhanced by three vectors: political affinity between Brazil's and El Salvador's presidents, bureaucrat's paper and work performed by intergovernmental organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the concept of social policy as methodological approaches. First, argues that the definition of social policy must incorporate the core of the concepts: the dialectics between the constituted powers and constituent powers. In second place, it postulates that concepts have a distinctive basic content and proposes a minimum definition of social policy. In third place, it systematizes 26 definitions from specialized literature to establish the essential attributes of the concepts and finally proposes a definition of social policy. This proposal connotation may be useful for social research; it includes analyzed methodological approaches and differentiates social policy from other terms such as protection, security and social assistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyze how the video surveillance puts the personal data that manage in a space of legal indeterminacy, and how generates process of social and space classification that derive, sometimes, in forms of social exclusion. The perspective that frame the capacity that individuals have to construct autonomy and control spaces against the stratification and domination logics. From this perspective, it's analyzed how the weak or inexistent regulation of video surveillance cameras in Mexico can affect the citizenship practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the wage councils organized by the left government of Uruguay. It suggests that there are not a simply turn back, from deregulation to a classic institution of the Uruguayan state, but a real inversion of the relations between labor, state, and capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]