Decentralization, municipality and social welfare: an analysis from the northeast of Mexico

Decentralization, municipality and social welfare: an analysis from the northeast of Mexico

The book presented is a remarkable contribution within the literature on public policies and social policy in Mexico. The work is based on a great reflective effort on the heterogeneous administrative framework in which municipalities can implement social welfare actions in their territories, all wr...

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Main Authors: Cogco Calderón, Adolfo Rogelio, López Estrada, Raúl Eduardo
Format: Online
Published: Libros UAT 2018
Online Access:https://libros.uat.edu.mx/index.php/librosuat/catalog/book/59
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Decentralization, municipality and social welfare: an analysis from the northeast of Mexico
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title Decentralization, municipality and social welfare: an analysis from the northeast of Mexico
title_short Decentralization, municipality and social welfare: an analysis from the northeast of Mexico
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description The book presented is a remarkable contribution within the literature on public policies and social policy in Mexico. The work is based on a great reflective effort on the heterogeneous administrative framework in which municipalities can implement social welfare actions in their territories, all written in a clear and simple manner. The work represents a great challenge because it performs an analysis on different aspects simultaneously. It begins with historical information on the decentralization process that took place at the end of the 1980s as a result of the State Reform in Mexico. The authors emphasize that decentralization is a process that has not yet been concluded, so that in Mexico one can only speak of a "partial decentralization" derived mainly from the transfer of functions and attributions from one governing body to another. It is identified that decentralization has generated autonomy for local governments only in the administrative part and not in the financial part, since in this area it has been the central government that maintains a strong control over resources, which limits significantly the institutional capacities of the municipalities. The particular prism of the work is the capacity and scope of the actions of local governments in the design, implementation and execution of social policy in a local context that allows for better development and social welfare. For this reason, four municipalities in the northeastern part of Mexico are analyzed in depth: San Nicolás de los Garza and General Escobedo, in Nuevo León; and Tampico and Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas, with which it carries out an analysis that links decentralization and its impact on social development, under the vision that this relationship is important, since it links the theoretical sustenance with the development of Mexico generated to through the modification of roles in the application of public policies of an economic and social nature in local spaces.
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spelling oai:omp.pkp.sfu.ca:publicationFormat-512018-12-03T19:12:23Z Decentralization, municipality and social welfare: an analysis from the northeast of Mexico Descentralización, municipio y bienestar social: un análisis del noreste de México Descentralización, municipio y bienestar social: un análisis del noreste de México Cogco Calderón, Adolfo Rogelio López Estrada, Raúl Eduardo The book presented is a remarkable contribution within the literature on public policies and social policy in Mexico. The work is based on a great reflective effort on the heterogeneous administrative framework in which municipalities can implement social welfare actions in their territories, all written in a clear and simple manner. The work represents a great challenge because it performs an analysis on different aspects simultaneously. It begins with historical information on the decentralization process that took place at the end of the 1980s as a result of the State Reform in Mexico. The authors emphasize that decentralization is a process that has not yet been concluded, so that in Mexico one can only speak of a "partial decentralization" derived mainly from the transfer of functions and attributions from one governing body to another. It is identified that decentralization has generated autonomy for local governments only in the administrative part and not in the financial part, since in this area it has been the central government that maintains a strong control over resources, which limits significantly the institutional capacities of the municipalities. The particular prism of the work is the capacity and scope of the actions of local governments in the design, implementation and execution of social policy in a local context that allows for better development and social welfare. For this reason, four municipalities in the northeastern part of Mexico are analyzed in depth: San Nicolás de los Garza and General Escobedo, in Nuevo León; and Tampico and Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas, with which it carries out an analysis that links decentralization and its impact on social development, under the vision that this relationship is important, since it links the theoretical sustenance with the development of Mexico generated to through the modification of roles in the application of public policies of an economic and social nature in local spaces. El libro que se presenta es un aporte notable dentro de la literatura de políticas públicas y política social en México. El trabajo está basado en un gran esfuerzo reflexivo sobre el marco administrativo heterogéneo en que los municipios pueden instrumentar las acciones de bienestar social en sus territorios, todo ello redactado de manera clara y sencilla. El trabajo representa un gran reto debido a que realiza un análisis sobre diversas vertientes de forma simultánea. Se inicia con información histórica del proceso de descentralización que se desarrolló a finales de los años ochenta como consecuencia de la Reforma del Estado en México. Los autores enfatizan que la descentralización es un proceso aún sin concluir, por lo que en México sólo se puede hablar de una "descentralización parcial" derivada principalmente de la transferencia de funciones y atribuciones de un órgano de gobierno a otro. Se identifica que la descentralización ha generado autonomía para los gobiernos locales sólo en la parte administrativa y no en la parte financiera, ya que en este rubro ha sido el gobierno central el que mantiene un fuerte control sobre los recursos, lo que limita de manera significativa las capacidades institucionales de los municipios. El prisma particular de la obra es la capacidad y alcances de las acciones de los gobiernos locales en el diseño, implementación y ejecución de la política social en un contexto local que permita un mejor desarrollo y bienestar social. Por ello, se analiza a profundidad cuatro municipios de la zona noreste de México: San Nicolás de los Garza y General Escobedo, en Nuevo León; y Tampico y Ciudad Madero, en Tamaulipas, con los cuales realiza un análisis que vincula la descentralización y su impacto en el desarrollo social, bajo la visión de que esta relación es importante, ya que vincula el sustento teórico con el desarrollo de México generado a través de la modificación de roles en la aplicación de las políticas públicas de carácter económico y social en los espacios locales. Libros UAT Libros UAT 2018-12-03 Libro Digital (DA) https://libros.uat.edu.mx/index.php/librosuat/catalog/book/59 978-607-402-360-2 Libros UAT; Libros UAT;

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