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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]

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]

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]

This paper aims to make some reflections on the concept of governance applied to building cooperative public policy processes in poor and backward regions. Our arguments come from a study in a mining region of central Mexico, where is taking place a multi stakeholder process that seeks to translate into public policy a risk health management plan. Our intention is not to establish generalizations from the empirical data, but contesting the normative approach to governance in light of tensions and contradictions that we see in the process of generating collective agreements of public nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a detailed review of the model of the Community Development Program for Marginalized Urban Areas ZUMAR+FIDEPO (Z+F), a social development program managed by the Ministry of Social and Human Development from the state of Guanajuato, which operates as a public trust. Based on a documentary analysis, it highlights the philosophy and vision, as well as its discourse and how development, participation and intervention has been conceptualized as the structural elements of the program. It also includes a punctual comparison with other similar projects in Chile and Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intention of this paper is to build a methodological route for the study and analysis of the institutional capacity. To understand the institutional capacity is important to explore the following questions: by whom it is exercised?, how does it express?, where is it exercised?, which is the importance of the social actors in the above mentioned capacity?, and what role does it plays the institutional capacity in the public action? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Latin America, the emphasis on public policy approach has changed, by means of replacing the old positions by technocratic approaches in order to rescue and update the old and never resolved tensions between politics and policies. In contemporary discussions, attention has been given not only in the formulation but also to the political process, recognizing that categories of policies are influenced by the various policy approaches. This paper links the discussions of citizen participation and governance, from a democracy, human rights and development perspective in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the process of state transformation in Mexico. Different proposals have been introduced by different governments who have gradually transformed the country. To analyze this process we need to know about the type and deepness of the reform's applicability in Mexico during the frequent transformations in different historical moments. We assess the effects and the efficacy of the reforms according to different levels: constitutional reform as the ones which command the state action; administrative reforms like the processes in public administration; and political reforms like the ones that improved the relationships between state and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]