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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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

This paper provides an analysis of the writings of Juan Bautista Justo, the main leader of Argentine socialism, on the question of war, in order to contribute to recent scholarship that has developed a more complex view of his thought, setting it against the background of the positions of the Second International. First, it will be argued that Justo's thought did not simply imitate European Socialists' analysis, although he certainly incorporated elements of their theory, but that his was an original intellectual operation, to be analyzed in the context of the peculiar and eclectic body of theory of the Argentine Socialist leadership. Second, the paper shows the changes this interpretation went through, from the statements in Justo's book Teoría y Práctica de la Historia, at the end of the decade of 1900, to the positions the Socialist Party leaders held in Parliament in early 1917, when they backed the severance of relations with Germany. [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 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]

The paper explores the constitutional legislation and the indigenous rights in Latin America. At the beginning, the paper make a historical reflection of the concept of self-determination and the recognition of the ethnic and cultural plurality of the States, as well like as the notion of legal pluralism and democracy of citizenship. It concludes that the reformulation of the Latin American States necessarily will have to reach the legal systems, making them more sensible to the ethnic specificities and the indigenous rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Statistical quality control is not been used widely in Mexican companies that afford or sale services, that is why this paper pretend to show a simple technique of quality control in a service area using simple tools as charts. There are several qualitative techniques and few quantitative techniques as charts that could show us if a service is under control, this means, verify if we are doing the service job with previous quality control standards or not. Our objective is to show a simple quantitative technique of quality control using two types of charts: control chart for process mean and control chart for process variability. This paper could guide the analyst to discover opportunity areas in the company where he could apply this technique to completely satisfy the needs of the client. Finally, this material has been made using Excel because we want to offer the quality control analyst a practical tool in this field. [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]

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]

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]

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]

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 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]

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]

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]

The aim of this paper is to analyze, through the newspapers of Buenos Aires, the role played by European news agencies and submarine cable companies during the first months of the Great War. British control over submarine cables and the use by local newspapers from news agencies allies as Havas and Reuters were crucial to determine and disseminate a particular view on the war and in particular on the German offensive of the summer of 1914. Before any further explanation, this allows understanding the sympathetic majority of the Buenos Aires public opinion by the forces of the Triple Entente, revealing and the tendentiousness of the information published the locals daily. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that pre-war geographical distribution of exports was one of the major reasons to explain Argentina's neutrality during First World War. To support our hypothesis we present new empirical evidence based on the correction of goods prices as well as distribution of "for orders" load. Additionally, we characterize Argentine exports considering basket composition, values and volume of goods, and destination's assignments, which indicate how difficult was keeping neutral for Argentina in its commercial relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the impact that the First World War had on Latin America in various facets: the dislocation of transatlantic trade and its impact on Latin American economies, the coverage of the European war by the Latin American press and the renewal experienced by it, through the innovation of sending war correspondents, without the mediation of the European news agencies. The paper also discusses the various reactions of Latin American governments, either by declaring their neutrality or belligerency. The 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]

Utopias stand between art, humanities and social sciences. They express the imaginary of the time, which are often constant throughout the history of mankind. This location across borders allows us to see the importance of the interrelationship between the arts, humanities and social sciences over the social imaginary, which were separated with the consolidation of modernity, based in dichotomies that must be overcome to achieve a more complex and profound vision of reality. In this paper we analyze the Renaissance and socialist utopias and imaginary expressions that reflect social reality, as well as actual the absence of structured utopias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to discuss three problems posited by Leopold von Ranke when he explained the principles of scientific history. First, the very possibility of telling what really happened in the past, second, the relationship between the general and the particular, and third the relationship between the historian and his subject of study. In doing that, I resume the Ranke's arguments, and then I examine Friedrich Nietzsche's and Isaiah Berlin's critiques to that kind of history. Finally, I suggest that there were enough developments to answer these critics in the works of some classical sociologists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper revolves around José Martí's 1889 "The Paris World Exhibition" text, originally published in the children's magazine La Edad de Oro (The Golden Agé). My aim is to point out how Marti, based on Utopian thought, presented his view of historical transformation through children's literature, and how Latin America and his own childhood held a place in the alter mundis. I will show that, according to the poet, the construction of a new political and cultural order for "our America" could be part of the vicissitudes of Modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper shows a dynamic replicator implementation in R Language to analyze and simulate the cultural and behavioral features of society with an evolutionary model used by the biological science. The algorithm is a solution by finite difference method of Bowles and Ginti's version of dynamic replicator, it allows the researcher to use it to model different situations, with only define the probability functions of contact and interaction between groups and payment functions. We decide to use R Language despite its use as statistical tool, because allows to model different problems also it is accessible to people without formal education in computing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is meant to show the importance of a socio-political lexicon of the "system theory" developed by Niklas Luhmann, as well as its current relevance in the field of theoretical development. The main idea presented in this study is related to a conceptual epistemology that is able to incorporate different types of results and solutions, which are reflected in different phenomena of modern society. The ten analyzed concepts have an essential relation to the phenomena of politics and other expressions of social life. Finally, this paper can be taken as an introduction to the study of system theory and its relation to the different political scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In social sciences, the Delphi method is regarded as a valid and effective tool to gather information about a subject where there is scarce evidence or little agreement. It can be an important research technique to use in institutional evaluations, specifically to analyze the institutional capability of local governments interested in tacking "new" problems. The aim of this paper is to show how the Delphi method can be used in a study of the institutional capability of local governments dealing with climatic change (CC). First, the challenges of analyzing the institutional capability of local governments are presented, followed by an exposition of some characteristics of the Delphi method and its application to institutional capability analysis; the advantages of combining this technique with that of principal component analysis are shown last. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Machiavelli and Rousseau are two authors with a lot of common features, but with important differences too. For example, they are very close because their strong republicanism, but they are diametrically opposed about the conception of human nature. However, they have a very similar opinion in respect to the religion and the relationship with the state: the religion is a fundamental ground to the stability of the state. In fact, they agree about the religion must be a civil one; the essential objective of the religion is to strengthen the civic relationship between people with the objective to establish the best foundations to the state. This paper analyses essentially the coincidences in this topic of this authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to highlight in the context of the recent history of political violence in Argentina, the importance of the pioneers "smaller groups" of the 60s, since in its origin, development and become are many of the justifications to be endorsed by major political-military organizations of the next decade. In the Guerrilla del Ejército Libertador precursors debates appear on the guerrilla struggle as a trigger revolutionary vanguard party and revolutionary morality. Finally, repression and the question of Peronism eventually dissolve the group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El objetivo central del siguiente trabajo es reflexionar acerca de los efectos observados por la crisis subprime en los Objetivos del Mileno en América Latina. La hipótesis que guía esta investigación es que la crisis global de 2008 frenó el cumplimiento de los Objetivos del Mileno, contuvo los niveles de crecimiento en América Latina, precarizó las condiciones laborales y aumentó los índices de pobreza regional. The main goal of the following paper is to reflect on the effects of subprime crisis on the Objectives of the Millennium in Latin America. As the hypothesis leading this research it can be said that the world crisis in 2008 stopped the levels of economical growth in Latin America, turned labor conditions unstable and increased regional poverty indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This term paper outlines some particular problems in the experience in preparation of reports about Latin American situations. This emphasizes the complexity of the link between the event that characterizes a situation, the structures that have been shaped in society and the political historical movement in which the forces are located and their relationships. It includes the problem of hegemony as focal point of the entire central and reference movement in the social and political junctures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental change are social and cultural dynamics that show us the possibility to build different relationships with the environment. In this paper we propose to discuss how the hegemony of rational thought that has made nature an object domain is a counterbalance in the history of the Red Hñahñu. While reviewing the concrete work done by some indigenous communities as Hñahñu, our endeavor is to show some imaginary social meanings that constitute forms of subjectivity of these indigenous groups that direct their speeches and actions on the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the limits of the bureaucratic model to the dangers of contemporary environmental problems; the nature linked to a diverse range of uncertainty is opposed to the logic and possibilities of calculating the weberian paradigm. Given this paradigm exhaustion arise the need for a new model of risk management from a new rationality underpinned by the precautionary principle and the social perception of risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At this point there are several central and local governments that are driving actions to address climate change, but the results may be affected, inter alia, by its own institutional capacity. In this sense, this paper seeks to analyze the institutional capacity the Federal District (DF) is building to address the climate change through one of its components, the administrative capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

World histor y is full of conflicts caused by the scarcity of natural resources: gold, diamonds and oil. However, the water that has not previously been considered a source of conflict, with the climate change it becomes "the blue gold" of this century. This paper analyzes the risks of water shortage worldwide, particularly in Latin America, which despite its abundant resources, is facing scarcity of this element. The population growth, inappropriate management policies, lack of innovative technology and corruption aggravate the situation, putting in danger the development of the Latin American region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore alternative institutional ways to approach the public strategies for the attention of the meteorological events that occur frequently in Mexico. In the context of a growing presence of such events in the country associated with climate change, increased resilience relates to the identification and correction of the vulnerability of those areas susceptible to such threats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current context of economic and environmental crisis, the question for developing countries, whether it is better to think about adapting or mitigating climate change. Of the more than 24 million metric tons of C02 emitted in the world, Mexico contributes only 1.6%, although this figure is relatively small is important to devise strategies to tackle the problem of climate change, considering participation of key stakeholders such as government, private sector and civil society, through the design of environmental policies and concrete actions from private enterprise. The target of this paper is to explain how from the private sector itself emerging alternatives for adapting to climate change, the trades do also contribute to the mitigation, such as the experience of industrial ecology has been given in Altamira, Tamaulipas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]