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This paper analyzes the relationship between democratization and drug trafficking in Mexico, underlining the mutual determination between both elements. On the one hand, it examines the transition's effects on the dynamics of drug trafficking and criminal groups; on the other hand, it shows the impact that the strengthening of drug trafficking has on Mexico's democratization process and the establishment of a unique hybrid regime. The hypothesis is that the strengthening of drug trafficking was the product of unintended consequences, which worsened with the transition to democracy, and that drug trafficking has played a significant role in the consolidation of a hybrid regime in which the weakness of the rule of law and the functioning of government stand out as the main dimensions that would have to be addressed in order to correctly orient the course of democratization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze, in comparative terms, the way in which the migration control regime operates in the Americas and at the borders of Europe. Through the analysis of research carried out in both spaces, I show that a swarm of institutions, actors and forces have been developing to form a control system that both manages and discards migrants. In this sense, the governance of migration today is a chapter, and not a minor one, in the restructuring and reshaping of postcolonial relations between countries, nations and classes of people in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we show how organizational studies provide with a viable, pragmatic and realistic alternative to the attempt to develop technics to face and deal with wicked problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an analytical model to understand, analyze and compare the state migration policies in the presence of persistent and increasingly migratory flows nowadays. Thus, migration policies are analyzed from the most critical concepts and with the historical reconstruction of the origin and development of migratory instruments and regulations. Finally, it proposes a model for analyzing the State's Governmental Logic with the help of Neo-institutionalist perspective and the Public Policies Approach; the Foucaultian-inspired debate on "technologies of power" for population control, and sociological developments on individuals' migration practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SIR model (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered) proposed by Kermack & McKendrick aims to simulate the behavior of a contagious disease's effect-propagation, such as covid-19's; consists of a system of three differential equations, one that models the behavior of the individuals likely to acquire the disease, another equation for the infected ones and the last one for those recovered. This system has two parameters: the transmission rate ß and the recovery rate ?. The objective of the paper is to show the operation of the SIR behavior model using data from the covid-19 pandemic for Mexico, in particular, the effects of health and social containment measures on the dynamics of the model addressed. Based on daily data from the first three phases of the pandemic in Mexico, which runs from February 27 to May 17, 2021, the scenarios with and without public intervention measures was contrasted. The finding is that with sanitary and social containment measures, the rate of transmission is reduced and the curve of infected is "flattened". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reflection paper understands the street from a public space notion, recognizing it as a scenario to perform subjectivities, where control mechanisms are deployed on the bodies, as well as resistances are activated. Mainly, the young actions are analyzed highlighting the incidence of young people in the social order definition, and their tensions with the regulation mechanisms of space and visibility in the city. Finally, it approaches to their recognition struggles and their demands for a urban life based on justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In neoliberalism, rural Mexican women have diversified their work. The policies to promote productive and reproductive labor are associated with an instrumental perspective of development. The paper discusses critiques to development, identify alternatives in rural women organization and suggest clues to strengthen it, drawing on public policies. Long-term rural women's productive experiences are analyzed, and the local indigenous cooperative practices is deepened. The strategies highlight gender as process. Agency, shared-responsibility and autonomy are crucial in cooperatives' continuity, although time-poverty for women increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the main changes in the productive structure of fruit and vegetable crops in Mexico, to identify their impacts on agricultural farm worker. We make use of a quantitative method. The analysis of crop structure identifies a growth in the area of vegetables, accompanied by crop diversification, displacement of industrial and basic crops, and significant growth of fruit trees. There is an increase in the employment season in horticultural regions, which favors the settlement of agricultural farm worker. It is noted that as part of the producers' strategy, diversification is also being operated in the laborers supply regions and this has an effect on an increase in unemployment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the elements that allowed a specific discourse of black-afromexican women in the context of the political mobilization of people of the Costa Chica of Oaxaca. It realizes how discourse, gender and language intertwine from the experience of afro-mexican women and their relationship with feminisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the economic and institutional deficiencies of the most vulnerable inhabitants of indigenous communities in Mexico -women, children and the elderly-, they have formed social organizations to face the challenges imposed by contemporary productive development, these organizations are based on the ecofeminist and other positions of socio-environmental empowerment. The objective of this paper is to analyze the development and evolution of ecofeminism and its influence on the political and economic agendas of government agencies with the intention of indicating whether there has been any benefit for rural populations in Mexico through public or private support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the role of independent candidates for their first performance in the presidential elections of 2018, after their recent incorporation into the Mexican electoral system. The theoretical analysis includes a critical review of the main arguments that supported their legal recognition, as well as a review of the legislation that regulates them, in order to explain their social function in a context of crisis of representation, but also their strategic and decisive role in the partisan electoral contests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the main results of the research project Consumption Cultural and social representations in children, adolescents and young people from Mexico City are exposed. It describes the close relationship between economic inequality and social and cultural inequality. Theoretically, it is part of the theory of social field of Pierre Bourdieu and the method of multiple correspondence analysis is used to arrive at these results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intent of this paper is to present an alternative estimator to measure the accuracy of the polls and some derived estimators, which seeks to cushion problems detected in the available options. This is achieved by adjusting the value of the absolute differences according to the statistical error of the estimates and, to allow a symmetrical behavior of the indicator, to convert it into its logarithm. The expectation is that these estimators provide a useful tool for future analysis on the accuracy of pre-election polls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the political views that shaped the debates about women's right to vote during the first decades of the twentieth century in Mexico. Universal suffrage was finally approved in 1953. We examine the diverse and sometimes contradictoiy arguments both in favor and against women's suffrage, that were sustained by the women who were protagonists in this struggle. This will provide us with insight into one aspect of the broader process of the construction of women's citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a few years, it has radically changed the culture of evaluation among public servants. However, not all aspects that are related to this subject have advanced as well. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze the relevant moments in the "history" of the evaluation to government programs in Mexico, the items that -since the perspective of an evaluation team-constitute progress (although some are only partial) and setbacks (or very limited progress) and, in conclusion, what we consider that is necessary to be done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Protected Natural Areas are subject to a number of factors that influence the achievement of their objective, little progress has been made by Conanp in conducting a comprehensive assessment of the conservation policy within them, that consider the following aspects: the design of its planning tool; the effectiveness of the activities earned out taking into account the use of fiscal budget for current expenditure and resources from annual applications to specific grant programs; as well as social consequences of the actions planned and carried out under the protected polygon and its area of influence. Based on these elements, this paper presents an evaluation exercise applied to the Management and Conservation Plan of Huatulco National Park (PNH), considering the period 2007-2012, as a means to make explicit the limitations, which in practice, faces the implementation of the conservation policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluative analysis of mechanisms of certification of the conditionalities in education and health. The Universal Child Allowance for Social Protection form Argentina. The Universal Child Allowance is the most important non-contributory social policy that transfers cash to children considered to be "vulnerable" in Argentina. This paper aims to analyze how the mechanisms of certification of the conditionalities in education and health work so as to evaluate it, since 600 thousand children are suspended each year because they do not prove the conditionalities. This research was triggered by a World Bank loan for 600 million dollars launched in 2016, one of whose objectives is to revise these mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis on policy evaluation tends to emphasize the need to build technical capacity among officials and robust information systems. However, they have not put enough focus on the highly political nature of this process. This paper analyzes, through the Uruguayan case, a set of political and institutional dimensions associated with bureaucracy, civil society and their links with political parties in an attempt to contribute to the understanding about the consolidation of the monitoring and evaluation systems in the Latin American public administrations. Two main arguments are developed: on the one hand, the existence of factors associated with the country's institutional construction of the public sector influence the development of the evaluation system, and on the other, paradoxically, we ask if the good levels of transparency and confidence by citizens to the state reduce the incentives for evaluating public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Latin American countries and in Spain, impact evaluation has begun in the first decade of this century with a clear emphasis on quantitative methods and counterfactual quasiexperimental design. The cases of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Spain are discussed in this paper. In order to expand the methodological options considered in these countries, we review the existing definitions of impact, the theoretical approaches on which impact evaluation is based and several successful experiences in applying alternative methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1985 two earthquakes showed the vulnerability of Mexico City. One of the most affected housing areas was Nonoalco-Tlatelolco. From that experience urban popular movements emanated. Their main concern was the housing problem, but their actions helped transform citizenship in the Federal District. At the federal level, a system of civil protection for disaster prevention and emergency management was created. Three decades after the above mentioned disaster, this paper analyzes the institutional and organizational vulnerability, based on the case of Tlatelolco. The achievements and progress to protect the population in case of a future disaster are questioned, both in terms of institutional civil protection and of social organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present the results of a qualitative research completed in Hermosillo, Sonora, by means of in-depth interviews to 15 subjects (men and women over range of 21 to 70 years old). The objective of this research was to know the configuration of the political culture of citizens facing the tragic event of ABC Day Care Center in which 49 children died and 76 have remained with wounds serious, at year 2009. A transformation of the political culture is noticed on the subjects mainly in the increasing perception and denouncing of public risks and safety practices; emotions such as "doubt", "fear" and "courage" permeate the relationship between the State and civil society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The multidimensional poverty measure observes the income, up to six deprivations and the inhabitant zone. Each dimension is expressed by one pie-graphic, but also the interaction between any two of them could be explained by this graphic as a pie. As a proposal of this paper, it is constructed a pie that explain three interactions. The main point is poverty in its display and understanding, three themes are joined in a draw. This is a new graphic in a shape of pie. Always done as a pizza slices, the pie is modified to express different point of view with new cake slices. The purpose of the modification is to combine pies, one in circle sense and the new one in concentric sense; the concentric sense use central minor circles and consecutive rings around it. Both senses in a single pie do what is going to be the bidimensional pie; three dimensions will be called three dimensions display. The first application is done with poverty data, the social objective; the three dimensions pie improves explanation and comprehension to the social matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the implementation of security policy during the administration of president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012). This research uses two theories the new institutionalism of rational choice and the principal-agent to explain how political actors sought their political profitability at the expense of public policy objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intention of this paper is to characterize and define operatively the concepts that surveys attempt to measure and evaluate the existing estimators to calculate the accuracy of polls, as a prelude to the presentation in a later article an alternative estimate of the accuracy and various complementary estimators, thereby cushioning problems detected in the measurement options available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Self-management is important for the generation of cooperative processes and to respond to not only local needs. In this work, community management of water for human consumption, carried out through social organization, figured in so-called community water committees in the Chapala Cinega, Michoacán, Mexico is analyzed. One of the central questions addressed in this paper is: What answers have communities to water problems and what lessons allow us to address this problem? Community organization has knowledge and is able to, meet their need for water supply. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the development of Self-defense Groups in Michoacán between February 2013 and March 2014. The paper discusses the changes of Self-defense Groups: conversion in social movement, factionalism games, Mafia aspects, violence cycles or possible brokerage games that stimulate civilization cycles in the state of Michoacán. This essay draws attention to the relative lack of studies on the issue and suggests lines of research on the subject, which may be undertaken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to the upsurge of violence precipitated by Mexico's war on drug-trafficking a number of groups of civilian activists have joined in a concerted effort to promote the public acknowledgment of the body counts as human losses rather than abstract numbers or collateral damage. This paper analyses the process by which the sensitive and emotive experiences fostered by some of these strategies developed during 2010 and 2011 give form to a shared outrage that expresses and articulates losses, issues and problems that both the State and the society at large refuse to acknowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the convergent process of State reform and legal and illegal private actors that shaped a mixed order through which the regional territory was transformed, and was promoted the desregulation of agro-industry of avocado and a violent hoarding of resources and opportunities in southwestern Michoacán. First we defined the framework and within a contextual historical analysis we present empirical evidence that explains the configuration, consolidation and expansion of the social order, that was possible only to the extent that legal and institutional mechanisms were coupled with the illegal practice of violence and the state economic deregulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the implications that the recent adjustments made to the legal framework that regulate telecommunications and broadcasting sectors are going to have over the current Mexican communications model. It argue that such changes privilege the consolidation of a mercantilist and private communications model, which contravenes a media development in the country that truly pays to strengthening civil rights such as freedom of expression or access to information. In parallel, we see that the perverse relationship that has existed for years between the current representative of the Executive, Enrique Peña Nieto, and the company Televisa has impacted fundamentally on the reconfiguration of the existing media-telecom model in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]