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This article analyzes the significance municipalities reached within the Political Plan of Argentina's last military dictatorship. Through the study of secrete, classified and public documents that were produced by the highest spheres of military power this paper shows that municipalities served as a fundamental link to the regime's Political Plan in different ways: as a political instrument of territorial and social "capillary" control characteristic of the dictatorship; as an authorized space for the participation of a local reaching, apolitical "municipal citizenship;" as a laboratory of political openness and as a sphere which nurtured "natural leadership" in Argentina. Finally, this paper identifies common and differing elements of the municipalization of the Chilean dictatorship with the Argentinean case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to debate the new paradigms of international development aid, with a specific focus on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their implementation within the context of Latin America. The paper will start drawing both the conceptual framework and the international environment, and afterwards will provide readers with an analysis of a success story occurred in the Department of Antioquia (Colombia). A further analytical approach will be proposed to appraise the potential of the North-South and South-South developmental co-operations. These may be linked one to each other with the first strengthening and widening up the second, thus creating innovative enabling environments for fruitful exchanges between local actors and organized civil societies of the North and the South of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Six years after its sinking, images of the Prestige remain etched in our memory: an overturned, leaking oil tanker losing part of its load and being towed out to high sea over the course of six days, during which time the tanker split in two and sank to a depth of 3,500 meters. The fuel reached the coast in several waves, affecting Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, and to a lesser extent, France and Portugal. Fishermen, shellfish gatherers, and thousands of volunteers took it upon themselves to prevent the worst consequences of the slick. Demonstrators gathered en masse in Santiago de Compostela… Never before in Spain had a disaster of this nature had such media, social, and political impact. What implications did this have for policies designed to prevent and combat environmental disasters? Did these public policies change as a result of this event? In this paper, frame analysis applied to public policy analysis is used to answer these questions. In other words, the paper analyzes the prevailing discourse regarding these public policies, how the problem is defined, what is identified as its cause, how the problem is situated geographically, to whom the problem and liability for it is attributed, what the proposed solutions are, what or who the targets of the policies are, the places at which these policies are aimed, and who should act to solve the problem. This analysis enables us both to conclude that the Prestige disaster did not bring about an essential change in Spanish public policies designed to prevent and combat marine oil pollution, and to draw lessons for improving the effectiveness of the public policies analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the last 20 years, demand for air passenger transport has grown dramatically. At the same time, the two largest domestic airlines merged and several smaller entrants exited without being able to make significant inroads. As a result, the industry is highly concentrated, with a dominant firm and a few fringe firms. This condition has generated considerable public debate about the degree of competition in the airline industry in Chile. With the purpose of contributing to the public discussion, this paper analyzes the industry from an industrial organization point of view. Specifically, the paper describes the domestic airline industry in Chile, defines the relevant market and then analyzes both the degree of concentration and entry conditions. In particular, I focus on the roles played by vertical integration, the computer reservation systems and the revenue management practice. I then evaluate self-regulation of airfares by the dominant firm and propose several public policies to increase competition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper reviews different contributions in the literature on advances and conceptual-methodological dilemmas in the study of poverty from a gender perspective. The paper also comments on the problems raised by this review from an analytical perspective, and its possible implications for public policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Following Coleman's statement about contemporary society being asymmetric, the purpose of this paper is to assess the differents kinds of public action that recur in present-day societies. Generally speaking, political and sociological literature has given priority to public action dominated by associations, which are observed as the protagonists of the defence of citizenry in an asymmetric society. In this respect, the design of public policies aimed at strengthening and expanding associative activity is legitimated. The main reason for this type of policy is that the decline of associative activity has often been linked with a decline in the democratic fabric of a particular community. In the second part of this paper, we suggest that far from producing this decline, we can confirm the emergence of other forms of participation which, while not starting out from the hypothesis of an associative movement, do share the political scenario with associations. We also demonstrate that both public administrations and civil associations are reporting on this type of participation, which makes its emergence both possible and easy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the strategic planning method linked to the territory's sustainable development as it is currently being proposed by various organisms involved in public policies in Peru. It is aimed to discuss the methodology in terms of its validity as a new theoretical paradigm. Its ultimate goal is to bring about a new comprehension of the strategic planning process within the present competitive framework -among districts, provinces, regions, etc.- featured by factors such as human resources assessment, expressive technological investments and emphasis on inter-connectivity, among others. The paper starts by revising the strategic planning model genesis within the public initiative sector and its relationship with the attraction of private investments at local scale. The percourse which links one point to the other goes through both the perspective of economists and administrators and the vision of prominent planners. It ends up by showing the possibilities of a new prospect in the strategic planning of development at local scale, as well as existing doubts regarding the model: firstly, if we lack adequate information in reference to the objective capacities of our closest competitors, we will hardly be able to elaborate competitive strategies favorable to us in a specific environment; secondly, we consider that, in the current context of our country, the goals in the territory development process must be guidelined by employment and income generation for local population and this, without doubt, relies on systematic planning of investment attraction; and finally, we accept that strategic planning may constitute a tool that will enable to consolidate the decentralization and territorial integration processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines different approaches to nutrition and food consumption practices in Mexico in terms of conceptual focus, analytical tools and major debates. Four approaches are analyzed: research that examines Mexican public policy vis-à-vis food production and distribution; economic studies focusing on the analysis of the national food pattern; anthropological investigation based on cultural feeding habits and research from a nutritional perspective, studying food consumption and its relation to population nutritional status. This paper points out that the above approaches do not consider a gender perspective, and reviewing some studies based on a gender category as their central analysis tool, the paper underlines the need to conduct further research on gender differences between men and women and their access to productive resources, income management and food distribution and consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The design and writing of public policies aimed at the use and/or promotion of foreign languages or public linguistic policies does not take into account a participatory effort from the different groups of society that will by benefitted or affected by their implementation; on the contrary, the responsibility of developing these policies (such as the Colombian National Bilinguism Plan) has been left in the hands of experts in the topic. The role of citizens as participants in the development and/or evaluation of public linguistic policies for the promotion and teaching of foreign languages is practically inexistent and the Colombian State has not established participation strategies. This paper proposes the use of democratic dialogue as a participatory tool for the design of more contextualized policies, that involve all the agents benefitted or affected by their implementation. The most appropriate way for the government and society to come together is through the exercise of those essential rights that allow and guarantee optimum conditions for dialogue, debate, criticism, dissent, and open discussion among parties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the last years, there has been an appreciation of the role of the state, which coexists with strong awareness of their difficulties and constraints to solve different social problems. To adopt and crystallize reform strategies aimed at improving state capacities, and be optimistic about their results, it is necessary to generate knowledge about the factors that condition them. This paper points out that public policy instruments are a key factor of state capacities. Thus, from a case study in 2010 on water policy in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the work shows how public policy instruments determine the strengthening of state capabilities and presents a series of guidelines at nurturing future state reform strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper discusses key aspects of the debate on political parties and power networks, focusing empirically analyze the presence of such actors within political parties Liberación Nacional y Partido Unidad Social Cristiana and their presence on the formation of cabinets in the Costa Rican government. Highlights CINDE alliance partners, CEFSA and the Central American Academy, who control the state institutions linked to the export sector from 1986 to 2010. It discusses the limits of procedural democracy to allow such corporate trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The closest possibility to the domain and subsequent control of a phenomenon is to know it. Administrative discretion is one of the unfinished items of Administrative Law; when discussions seem to cease, the topic re-emerges with new lights. For the dynamics of administrative activity it is a source of constant re-evaluation so as to achieve an efficient acting Administration. This paper briefly discusses major issues surrounding the discretion of Public Administration, in our view, essential to understanding the answer to the existence of such a contentious and controversial institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The distinction between "evaluation" and "analysis" within "EPPPAL: an endogenous model for public policy originating in, and directed toward Latin America", is a crucial issue because it gives balance, complements and questions the generous Anglo-Saxon (English) proposal and the friendly French offer on how to make policy public in Latin America. This paper begins with a brief description of the difference between public policy "Analysis" and "Evaluation". The first part presents the evolution of evaluation literature, its functions, conceptual references, typology, and models. q-he second section presents an analysis of its components, its basic assumptions, characteristics, emphases and tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a study on the relation existing between the concepts of vulnerability and victimization. Victimization is not limited to the situation of a person who has suffered from a crime. "Tacit" victimization --as we have labeled it-- may be suffered by any person due to endogenous and/ or exogenous causes; among the latter, poverty is one of the most harmful. In this sense, tacit victimization which derives from vulnerability must be tackled by means of public policies of social orientation. The State must comply with this purpose, in stead of spending Money on patrol cars and weapons, because the millions of victims that erratic public policies cause surpass the thousands of crime victims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theories focus primarily on phenomena such as systemic robustness against perturbation, self-organization, and on emergence, transformation, and dissolution of organizational entities or action patterns in nature understood as biological systems, the metaphorical resonance of CAS work is not easily translated into careful scientific results in public administration in the environment of globalization. It can be very difficult to identify the right level at which to develop more precise theoretical generalizations with well specified domains of applicability in public administration. This paper demonstrates an approach to this problem. We systematically investigate how emergence new features in a self organized process known as Public Administration.self-orgs [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The current article is one of the results of the research paper entitled "Public Policies for the Management of the Solid Wastes in the Aburra Valley," carried out by the Right, Culture and City Research Group at Faculty of Law at Saint Bonaventure University, Medellin branch. Its purpose is to explain that the materialization of the right to a safe environment can only be feasible if the environmental issue is understood from a systemic approach and the environmental pedagogy is much more used than its regulations, since with it, it will be feasible the consolidation of new values and the transformation of realities about the protection of the environment. Owing to the fact that the apparition of environmental issues is linked to the complex interaction between man, society and nature and the study of this complexity can serve as the starting point toward the search of adequate strategies to reach a sustainable relationship between the natural systems and the social systems. For this, education becomes an essential tool in the process of making of attitudes and behaviors, through which individuals and community become aware of their environment and make up knowledge, values and the competencies necessary to act, articulated to the natural system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper, from the power relations and sustainable development perspective, deals with the problem of water supply in Ocotlan, as a result of public policies for regional development implemented in the country during the 50's, last century. Ever since, the city's economic activity changed and there was an urban-industrial growth, and consequently, an increase of the water demand. Nevertheless, the water resource supply was prioritized over the domestic sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last couple of decades, migratory movements in Chile have been minimal. Regions are far from achieving equality in per capita income, and migration has not been an equalizing force. Hence, there is marked persistence in regional inequity. This paper attempts to explain this lack of convergence. The main hypothesis is that there are some public policies that have an inhibiting effect over migration. In particular, the educational subsidies would act as an anchoring element. Using an enlarged version of the Harris and Todaro Model (1970) we conclude that in effect the "in school" food subsidy given by the Ministry of Education (for over 40 years) a powerful deterrent of migration between regions in Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analizes the relationship between oilspills and ecological conflicts in the northern Amazon of Ecuador. The central idea is that conflict management by the state-owned oil company, Petroecuador, can lead to "efficient" negotiations in the short term, at the cost of a long-term perspective, that seeks the institutionalization of agreements and an effective treatment of the structural causes of environmental conflicts. This context is determined by an inadequate environmental management in the Northern Amazon and constitutes the background of wider protracted conflicts, in the Central and Southern parts of the region. Especially, the resulting tense social relationships are actually worsened by the mediatization of the Chevron-Texaco trial. As a matter of fact, it will probably remain the framework for oil policies. Without a redefinition of public policies -especially a responsible and equitative environmental and social policies– this could lead to a crisis of democratic governability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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