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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]