Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Municipales
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description: The Ibero-American Journal of Municipal Studies (RIEM), belonging to the Universidad Autónoma de Chile, is a free and open-access scientific publication of Ibero-American scope. The journal is published continuously and contains unpublished academic articles and reviews, published in Spanish, Portuguese and English. RIEM seeks to become a space for interdisciplinary dialogue around local and territorial processes in Latin America. Along with the analysis of subnational development and public management, the journal incorporates perspectives that address socio-territorial dynamics, ecological transformations, economic and social processes with differentiated effects on territories, as well as the tensions arising from multi-level governance. The journal receives contributions that, on the basis of case studies or comparative approaches, link the empirical with broader theoretical frameworks at a national, regional or global level. The disciplines covered include, but are not limited to, public administration, political science, sociology, law, economics, anthropology, psychology, geography, environmental studies, and territorial development. In 2023, the journal switched to continuous publication and since January 2025 uses Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing according to the university’s open access policy and the FAIR principles of open science. In 2025, it also established a policy on the use of artificial intelligence by authors and in the editorial review and production process. The RIEM magazine does not charge fees (APC) for the submission and processing of papers, nor does it charge fees for the publication of its articles.
publisher: Universidad Autónoma de Chile
language: en
publication name: Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Municipales
issn: 0719-1790
copyright: The published works are free to distribute and disseminate in the same sources as long as you correctly cite the source of publication. The publication is distributed under the Creative Commons CC Recognition 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license according to the open access and open science policy that the university subscribes since January 2025.
items: EFFECTS OF PUBLIC FUNDING FOR SPORT
items: Economic Growth and Human Development: Subnational Evidence for Uruguay (1992–2021)
items: Intergovernmental Transfers and Municipal Fiscal Behavior: Flypaper Effect and Oates’ Veil Hypothesis in Bahia, Brazil
items: Municipios y gobernanza multinivel en políticas de seguridad y juventud: el caso del Gran Río Cuarto, Argentina
items: Local agendas of Argentine municipal governments: before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic
items: Sociodemographic factors as determinants in the use of e-government in Mexico, in the context of COVID-19
items: The role of fee revenues in fiscal policy and their incidence on municipal economic growth: empirical evidence from Jalisco, Mexico
items: Local governments and city branding. Reflections on citizen participation based on the experience of Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
items: Public finance and fiscal federalism in five municipalities of the Buenos Aires province 2017-2022
items: Water governance and decentralization in Chile: municipal perceptions of drought in the Coquimbo Region
items: Planning and management of the failed Urban Train Project for the City of Santa Fe (Argentina, 2007-2019)
items: Characterization of Municipal Management Improvement Programs in Chile: A Case Study in municipalities of Biobío, Ñuble and Araucanía 2023-2024
items: Intergovernmental fiscal relations and local development in Oaxaca
items: Public Innovation, State Capacities and Governance: Conceptual Approaches for the Local Level in Latin America
items: Progressive Policy Innovation in a Conservative Context? Factors Influencing the Creation of the Non-Discrimination Office in Providencia
items: Collaborative Governance and Institutional Development in the Municipal Context: The Case of the Internal Control in Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
items: Social Participation and Models of City in Argentinean Central Patagonia: Urban Planning Comparison in Puerto Madryn, Chubut, (1996-2019)
items: Integrated management of urban solid waste as a local public good: Ibero-American municipalities and financing strategies
items: Impact of New Public Education System over the Achievement of Schools and Students in Chile
items: Factors associated with budget transparency: Evidence from the municipalities of Chile (2021-2023)
items: Municipal public management in Argentina. A reflexion on the processes of change and innovation
items: Characterization and challenges of vacant urban land in cities of the Greater Santa Fe Agglomeration (Argentina)
items: Deliberative practices and dynamics of citizen participation: systematic review of conditions and applicability criteria in empirical deliberation scenarios
items: Characterization of Arica Women in a Tri-Border Region
items: . Municipal Citizen Participation in Chile: Evolution and Impact of Legislative Changes
items: Social innovation and territorial democratization: the civic-political approach of participatory budgeting in Pereira, Colombia
items: The sustainable development goals as a challenge and solution? Closing coordination gaps in three Argentine provinces
items: Impact of macroeconomic variables on the Human Development Index: the case of Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela
items: Urban accessibility paradoxes: standardization and fragmentation in Santiago de Chile
items: Crime and agricultural production: Reflections on Public Safety Risk, Productivity and transient crops rotation in a rural region of Colombia

EFFECTS OF PUBLIC FUNDING FOR SPORT
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description: Within the scope of local governments, public funding plays a relevant role in the development of sports management and in the capacity to implement sports policies. In this sense, this paper systematically analyzes the state of the art regarding public funding for sport in local governments and its empirical effects. A total of 38 articles were selected and organized into the clusters “Policy,” “Public Project Impact,” “Allocative Performance,” “Local Governance,” and “Economic.” The theoretical and empirical findings highlight research opportunities and (re)affirm the growing importance of public funding for sport, particularly at the local government level. The integrated and multifaceted approach to the conditioning factors of performance in public funding for sport can inform discussions on more effective public policies across different regional contexts.
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creator: Ebio Viana Meneses Neto
creator: Evandro Rodrigues de Faria
creator: Lucas Maia dos Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Ebio Viana Meneses Neto, Evandro Rodrigues de Faria, Lucas Maia dos Santos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
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doi: 10.32457/riem.v30.3555

Economic Growth and Human Development: Subnational Evidence for Uruguay (1992–2021)
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description: This article analyses the long-term relationship between economic growth and human development at the subnational level in Uruguay between 1992 and 2021. A Departmental Development Index (DDI) is constructed, incorporating dimensions of well-being and human capabilities. Using panel data cointegration and causality techniques significant linkages are identified between GDP per capita and the components of development. The results reveal persistent disparities across regions, particularly between the south and the north of the country, and suggest that improvements in well-being and human capabilities can feed back into economic growth. The paper discusses implications for territorial development policies, which should integrate economic growth and human development in order to generate sustainable competitive advantages and balanced development.
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creator: Martin Pérez Fernández
creator: Adrián Rodríguez Miranda
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Martin Pérez Fernández, Adrián Rodríguez Miranda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-06-15
publication date: 2026-06-15
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doi: 10.32457/riem.v30.3562

Intergovernmental Transfers and Municipal Fiscal Behavior: Flypaper Effect and Oates’ Veil Hypothesis in Bahia, Brazil
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description: Intergovernmental transfers play a central role in decentralized fiscal systems; however, their effects on local government behavior remain a subject of theoretical and empirical debate. This study examines the extent to which transferred resources influence municipal spending (flypaper effect) and revenue collection effort (Veil of Oates Hypothesis) in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Using a balanced panel comprising all 417 municipalities in Bahia from 2013 to 2023, panel data models with fixed effects are employed to estimate the impacts of federal and state transfers on municipal expenditures and own-source revenues. The results provide strong evidence of the flypaper effect, indicating that transfers from the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM), the State Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS), and the Motor Vehicle Ownership Tax (IPVA) significantly increase municipal spending, particularly among municipalities with lower expenditure levels. Regarding fiscal effort, the findings offer partial support for the Veil of Oates Hypothesis, as FPM transfers reduce own-source revenue primarily in wealthier municipalities. In contrast, ICMS transfers have no significant effect on own-source revenue, whereas IPVA transfers contribute positively to local revenue generation. These findings advance the fiscal federalism literature by demonstrating that the effects of intergovernmental transfers are heterogeneous across municipalities and depend on local fiscal capacity.
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creator: Taisa Aquino Lopes
creator: Anderson Dias Brito
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Taisa Aquino Lopes, Anderson Dias Brito https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-08-03
publication date: 2026-08-03
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ending page: 31
doi: 10.32457/riem.v30.3597

Municipios y gobernanza multinivel en políticas de seguridad y juventud: el caso del Gran Río Cuarto, Argentina
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description: The Argentine State operates at three levels—national, provincial, and municipal—whose spheres overlap, forming a multilevel State. Following the constitutional reform of 1994, municipalities, the level closest to the population, gained relevance. This article, focusing on Greater Río Cuarto (Río Cuarto, Las Higueras and Santa Catalina-Holmberg), analyses security and youth policies between 2021 and 2025, highlighting the coordination, institutional gaps and tensions that complicate management. It employs a mixed design: quantitative review of secondary sources on implemented policies and qualitative interviews with municipal officials. The results describe local initiatives and programmes, their scope and impact, and offer an integrated and detailed view of the municipal landscape in terms of security and relevant current youth policies.
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creator: Mariana Lerchundi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Mariana Lerchundi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-08-11
publication date: 2026-08-11
starting page: 1
ending page: 21
doi: 10.32457/riem.v30.3414

Local agendas of Argentine municipal governments: before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic
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description: This article analyzes the reconfiguration of the local agendas of Argentine municipal governments across three stages: the period prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the management of the health crisis, and the post-pandemic scenario. Drawing on a nationwide empirical study based on semi-structured interviews with senior officials from 123 local governments, it analyzes variations in the hierarchy of local agendas and their relationship with municipal state capacities. The information was processed through thematic coding of references to policies and intervention priorities. The findings show the persistent centrality of the social agenda, a reactive reordering of priorities during the pandemic, and a partial diversification in the post-pandemic stage.
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creator: Daniel Alberto Cravacuore
creator: Angeles Traina
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Daniel Alberto Cravacuore, Mg. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-24
publication date: 2026-04-24
starting page: 1
ending page: 19
doi: 10.32457/riem.v30.3524

Sociodemographic factors as determinants in the use of e-government in Mexico, in the context of COVID-19
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description: The objective of this research was to analyze the use of e-government in Mexico, considering sociodemographic factors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the National Survey on the Availability and Use of Information Technologies in Households (ENDUTIH), binary logistic regression models were applied to identify the factors influencing e-government use in its informational and transactional phases. The results show that education level and socioeconomic status were the most relevant predictors in all years and phases. Associations were also found with age, area of residence, and gender. Overall, the results indicate that sociodemographic factors have a differentiated impact on e-government use, and that these inequalities persisted and even intensified during the pandemic. Accordingly, these findings reflect the urgent need to develop comprehensive public policies on digital inclusion and government digitization.
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creator: Marcos Ezequiel Díaz Maldonado
creator: Diego Soto Hernandez
creator: Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Marcos Ezequiel Díaz Maldonado, Diego Soto Hernandez, Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-10
publication date: 2026-04-10
starting page: 1
ending page: 22
doi: 10.32457/riem.v30.3474

The role of fee revenues in fiscal policy and their incidence on municipal economic growth: empirical evidence from Jalisco, Mexico
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description: Con base en la teoría del federalismo fiscal de segunda generación y el enfoque de calidad de las finanzas públicas, este estudio examina el efecto de los ingresos por derechos sobre el crecimiento económico municipal de Jalisco. Para ello, se emplea un modelo de datos en panel, complementado con un análisis descriptivo mediante gráficas de dispersión y matrices de cuadrantes, considerando las diferencias en el tamaño poblacional municipal. Los resultados indican que los ingresos por derechos inciden positivamente en el crecimiento económico municipal, y que, independientemente del tamaño poblacional, predomina una relación favorable entre ambas variables. Tales hallazgos subrayan la importancia de fortalecer la recaudación local por derechos como mecanismo para la asignación de recursos que impulse el crecimiento económico.
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creator: Edgar Ricardo Rodríguez Hernández
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Edgar Ricardo Rodríguez Hernández https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-02
publication date: 2026-04-02
starting page: 1
ending page: 29
doi: 10.32457/riem.v30.3449

Local governments and city branding. Reflections on citizen participation based on the experience of Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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description: This article seeks to analyse city branding strategies in the Argentine context, based on the case of Tandil, reflecting on the role played by the promotion of citizen participation in this initiative. It starts from the premise that, although these tools were initially designed from a classic marketing approach, they are now conceived as a local public policy for promoting the territory, whose legitimacy and sustainability are based on processes of citizen involvement. The construction of the Tandil brand demonstrates a participatory space that permeated the different stages of work, the implementation of sectoral and citizen consultations, and the need to diversify and deepen participatory mechanisms to strengthen the city brand as public policy.
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creator: Julieta Nicolao
creator: Mariana Calvento
creator: Fernanda Di Meglio
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Julieta Nicolao, Mariana Calvento, Fernanda Di Meglio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-20
publication date: 2026-03-20
starting page: 1
ending page: 19
doi: 10.32457/riem.v30.3343

Public finance and fiscal federalism in five municipalities of the Buenos Aires province 2017-2022
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description: The article conducted a descriptive quantitative study of public finances for five municipalities in the province of Buenos Aires during the period 2017-2022. The objective was to analyze various indicators of fiscal federalism and decentralization based on official sources (provincial and municipal) for subnational governments, while examining how the political cycle influences municipal public accounts. The following results stand out. First, there is a trend of frequent budget deficits and a high dependence on provincial revenue sharing. At the same time, the deficits are closely related to the political cycle, where the likelihood of their occurrence is high. Second, the ratio of public employees to population is usually high, which implies a greater financial burden per citizen of Buenos Aires. Third, provincial revenue sharing per capita shows progressivity, with more funds going to smaller municipalities. Fourth, certain evidence is established regarding the existence of the ‘Flypaper Effect.’
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creator: Maximiliano Albornoz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maximiliano Albornoz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-06
publication date: 2026-01-06
starting page: 1
ending page: 19
doi: 10.32457/riem1.3323

Water governance and decentralization in Chile: municipal perceptions of drought in the Coquimbo Region
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description: Drought and water scarcity are distinct but interrelated phenomena with profound impacts on rural areas. While drought is a response to meteorological conditions, scarcity depends on institutional decisions regarding water use. In Chile, the Coquimbo Region is an emblematic case of prolonged water crisis, where the centralization of the water model limits local response capacity. This study analyzes the perceptions, beliefs, and opinions of mayors in the Coquimbo Region on water governance in contexts of drought and scarcity, with the aim of identifying the scope for municipal action. A qualitative study was developed based on semi-structured interviews with mayors in the region. The analysis was organized into thematic categories related to centralization, governance, and participation, coded using qualitative analysis procedures. The findings show that mayors have a critical perception of the centralized water management model, highlighting the lack of municipal powers and limited coordination with community entities. Similarities are identified with international experiences where decentralization lacks effective resources. The study provides novel empirical evidence on the limitations of the Chilean water governance model and contributes to the comparative academic debate on decentralization. It underscores the need to strengthen local capacities in order to enhance adaptive responses to prolonged water crises.
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creator: David Gómez-Schwartz
creator: Iván Jaramillo Zepeda
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 David Gómez-Schwartz, Iván Jaramillo Zepeda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-24
publication date: 2025-10-24
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doi: 10.32457/riem1.3231

Planning and management of the failed Urban Train Project for the City of Santa Fe (Argentina, 2007-2019)
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description: The objective of this paper is to address the planning and management of an urban rail project promoted by the city council of Santa Fe (Argentina) between 2007 and 2019. It had to use national infrastructure, which led into a complex permit application. Furthermore, there was limited support from the provincial government and mechanical failures in the vehicles purchased by the council, all factors that led to the failure of the public policy. The work was made using a qualitative methodological approach and it based on several research techniques. The article appeal to the concept of state capacity and its analytical dimensions to interpret the findings as consequences of poor inter-institutional coordination.
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creator: María Alejandra Saus
creator: Valeria Ferreira Campos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 María Alejandra Saus, Valeria Ferreira Campos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-24
publication date: 2025-10-24
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doi: 10.32457/riem1.3112

Characterization of Municipal Management Improvement Programs in Chile: A Case Study in municipalities of Biobío, Ñuble and Araucanía 2023-2024
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description: The study examines Results-Based Management through Management Improvement Programs in 72 municipalities in Biobío, Ñuble, and Araucanía (2023-2024). With 137 documents reviewed, consistency, structure, and alignment of objectives and indicators with strategic planning were evaluated. Marked disparities were evident: only 26 % of municipalities showed full alignment, and only 11 % of indicators measure gradual progress. Low-quality indicators predominated, limiting effective monitoring and evaluation. Although PMGs strengthen accountability, their impact is uneven due to structural and resource gaps. It is recommended that indicators and criteria be adapted to local realities, promoting more efficient, equitable, and accountable management to drive sustainable and measurable results.
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creator: Jaime Contreras Álvarez
creator: Carlos Umaña Mardones
creator: Martina Corrales Muñoz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jaime Contreras Álvarez, Carlos Umaña Mardones, Martina Corrales Muñoz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-07
publication date: 2025-10-07
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ending page: 27
doi: 10.32457/riem1.3191

Intergovernmental fiscal relations and local development in Oaxaca
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description: The aim of this article is to define how taxation powers are distributed in the Mexican federal system and to identify the impact of the federal transfer scheme on local development in Oaxaca. Although actions have been promoted to strengthen municipal finances, inequalities remain in the national territory and in the case of Oaxaca’s municipalities, conditions of underdevelopment and poverty persist. Using an econometric probability model, the impact of the federal transfer scheme on local development in Oaxaca is calculated. The results show that federal contributions have a negative impact on municipal development, while participations favor development.
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creator: Marcela Astudillo-Moya
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marcela Astudillo-Moya https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-02
publication date: 2025-09-02
starting page: 1
ending page: 28
doi: 10.32457/riem1.2935

Public Innovation, State Capacities and Governance: Conceptual Approaches for the Local Level in Latin America
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description: This article proposes an integrated conceptual framework to analyze public innovation processes in local governments across Latin America, articulating three key dimensions: public innovation, state capacities, and governance. Based on a theoretical literature review, the article addresses a central problem: the need to generate effective and context-sensitive institutional responses to complex public challenges in settings marked by structural inequalities and uneven capacities. It examines contemporary models of innovation (linear, continuous, open), distinguishes between pre-existing and innovation-specific state capacities (including ambidextrous capacities), and explores collaborative, multilevel, and smart governance arrangements as enabling environments. The article concludes that a joint analysis of these dimensions offers a useful lens to interpret how public innovations are produced, sustained, or frustrated at the local level, and provides conceptual tools for their comparative study
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creator: Exequiel Rodríguez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Exequiel Rodríguez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-19
publication date: 2025-08-19
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ending page: 26
doi: 10.32457/riem1.3068

Progressive Policy Innovation in a Conservative Context? Factors Influencing the Creation of the Non-Discrimination Office in Providencia
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description: This research examines the factors that influence municipal innovation in addressing public issues of a moral nature, focusing on the creation of the Office of Non-Discrimination and Diversity in Providencia in 2013. Through semi-structured interviews and document reviews, eight factors were identified that can either facilitate or hinder innovation, depending on the institutional context. The findings indicate that political leadership, financial capacity, values, and a favorable public opinion climate — by reducing the political costs associated with promoting polarizing initiatives — were crucial to implementation. Therefore, the sustainability of local innovations in moral policies is closely linked to electoral volatility and the prevailing ideologies of the authorities.
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creator: Valentín Valdés Zenteno
creator: Cecilia Osorio Gonnet
creator: Rodrigo Aynol Gallardo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Valentín Valdés Zenteno, Cecilia Osorio Gonnet, Rodrigo Aynol Gallardo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-24
publication date: 2025-10-24
starting page: 1
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doi: 10.32457/riem1.3145

Collaborative Governance and Institutional Development in the Municipal Context: The Case of the Internal Control in Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
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description: This article analyzes the institutional development of the Internal Control Organ (OIC) in the municipality of Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico, based on a collaborative citizen evaluation conducted between 2023 and 2024. Employing a qualitative methodology and the contextual adaptation of an evaluation instrument previously validated in similar municipal contexts, key aspects of the OIC are assessed, including its normative framework, allocated resources, operational performance, transparency, and citizen participation. The selection of Saucillo is explicitly justified by three fundamental criteria: its empirical representativeness of medium-sized Mexican municipalities, its early and explicit political willingness to engage in citizen-led evaluation exercises, and its theoretical pertinence for exploring principles of collaborative governance. Findings indicate institutional progress in internal regulation, basic transparency, and overall institutional openness toward improvement. However, challenges were identified, particularly related to legal harmonization, staff professionalization, effective whistleblower protection, and the concrete implementation of systematic citizen participation mechanisms. Specific recommendations are provided to address these challenges, emphasizing the replicability of the Saucillo case, explicitly validated by the recent engagement of Chihuahua’s state capital in this collaborative evaluation process.
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creator: Carmen Lucila Álvarez González
creator: Carlos Eduardo Montano Durán
creator: Lucila de San Juan Delgado Alonso
creator: Alejandro Salvador Cruz Pimentel
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carmen Lucila Álvarez González, Carlos Eduardo Montano Durán, Lucila de San Juan Delgado Alonso, Alejandro Salvador Cruz Pimentel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-03
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Social Participation and Models of City in Argentinean Central Patagonia: Urban Planning Comparison in Puerto Madryn, Chubut, (1996-2019)
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description: This present work analyzes three urban participatory urban planning processes in a mid size touristic city of Argentinean central Patagonia, Puerto Madryn, in the Chubut Province, that happened between 1996 and 2019. Through the reconstruction of its methodologies and teams, the description of its participatory forms, the main issues of its diagnosis and urban final models, we discuss the place of urban planning and social participation, the professional and ideological context and the models in the local sphere. We identify differences and similarities in the processes, in more professionalized and pragmatic scenarios that anyway turned to have equal outcomes, even when the participation was less massive and more mediated. Finally, we made a spatial analysis of the final urban models, what allowed us to confirm the similarities of the processes as well as the differences because of the crystallization of the interests of the main city landowners.
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creator: Sergio Andrés Kaminker
creator: Lucas Bandieri
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sergio Andrés, Lucas Bandieri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-08
publication date: 2025-08-08
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Integrated management of urban solid waste as a local public good: Ibero-American municipalities and financing strategies
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description: Municipal governments play a key role in the provision of local public goods. The public cleaning service, conceived as a good, has had to be rethought and shifted toward the paradigm of integrated solid waste management, making its financing increasingly complex. The objective of this article is to analyze the various financing strategies implemented by Ibero-American municipal governments to provide this public good. Methodologically, an exploratory study with a qualitative approach was conducted, incorporating elements of comparative and documentary analysis. A total of 27 IberoAmerican municipalities were analyzed, revealing a diversity of financing strategies depending on their context. The most common approach is the application of service fees, which range from USD 1.33 to USD 14.00 per month.
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creator: Beatriz Adriana Venegas Sahagún
creator: Claudia Catalina Iñiguez Rodríguez
creator: Nelyda Georgina Ramírez Robles
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Beatriz Adriana Venegas Sahagún, Claudia Catalina Iñiguez Rodríguez, Nelyda Georgina Ramírez Robles https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-29
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Impact of New Public Education System over the Achievement of Schools and Students in Chile
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description: In 2017 the administration of public schools was transferred from municipalities to the Central Government through 21,040 Law creating the Local Services of Public Education (SLEP). Nowadays there is no a study that measures the impact of this public policy over the attainment of schools and students. So, in this work I try to measure the impact using data form National Agency of Quality Education and with the methodologies of propensity score matching and difference in difference (DiD). In general there is a negative impact in the achievement of schools and students due the change in the administration, however, in some cases there is a positive impact.
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creator: Fernando Rowland
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fernando Rowland https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-19
publication date: 2025-06-19
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Factors associated with budget transparency: Evidence from the municipalities of Chile (2021-2023)
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description: Budgetary opacity is an indication of deficiencies in the integrity of local governance. Nevertheless, in Chile, there is still a lack of empirical studies examining the factors that influence it. Using indicators from the Council for Transparency, Social Observatory, Electoral Service, and National Municipal Information System, this study employs a fixed effects model and a logistic model to identify political, demographic, and political leadership variables associated with levels of budget transparency. The results indicate that municipalities with high poverty levels, lower rates of higher education, and higher debt perform worse, in contrast to those with female mayors, higher levels of higher education, larger populations, and a higher percentage of votes received by the mayor in the previous election.
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creator: Bernardo Eric Navarrete Yáñez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bernardo Eric Navarrete Yáñez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-05-13
publication date: 2025-05-13
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Municipal public management in Argentina. A reflexion on the processes of change and innovation
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description: The aim of this paper is to discuss the models of municipal public management and their capacity for innovation in Argentina from 1930 to the present day. It is a reflexion based on the analysis and bibliographical review of the problems of municipalities. It can be affirmed that the different models of municipal public management implemented in the last decades were implemented in an incomplete and isolated way, which is why they did not produce the expected results. The processes of innovation in territorial management that are currently being generated suggest that a new model of municipal public management based on a logic of collaborative governance could emerge in the future.
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creator: Marcelo Sili
creator: Micaela Cellucci
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Marcelo Sili, Micaela Cellucci https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-24
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Characterization and challenges of vacant urban land in cities of the Greater Santa Fe Agglomeration (Argentina)
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description: Vacant urban land is associated with the expansion of urban areas, the increase in lot prices, and other factors. Through documentary analysis and interviews with political officials and members of technical teams, the research characterizes the situation of this type of land in the cities of the Greater Santa Fe Agglomeration in terms of the number of vacant urban lots, the instruments available to local governments to mobilize it and the challenges in managing it. The findings indicate that the issue is not a priority on government agendas. The only regulatory tool that penalizes its possession is a real estate surcharge, which, being generally low, does not incentivize mobilization. Enforcement procedures are sporadic, and local governments do not create land reserves with lots to deed.
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creator: Martín Carné
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Martín Carné https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-24
publication date: 2025-01-24
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Deliberative practices and dynamics of citizen participation: systematic review of conditions and applicability criteria in empirical deliberation scenarios
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description: This article seeks to carry out a systematic review of the relationship that exists between the categories of participation dynamics and deliberative practices. Along with this, the analysis of said theoretical connection seeks to recognize the practical implications that the theoretical criteria of equity and inclusivity, legitimacy and information have in order to be able to execute quality deliberations in various empirical contexts according to the recorded evidence. As a selection and methodological justification, the PRISMA diagram was used to delimit the selection of articles through inclusion criteria (identification, selection and suitability) and focus their final content analysis. Among the main results and final discussions it was possible to verify that; The dynamics of participation are built based on the knowledge and citizen knowledge implicit in individual experiences (colloquial knowledge, cultural roots, proactive trajectories of participation) also through the recognition of a systematic dynamic of interaction in public debate (resolving extended debates in the time, connecting the feedback process with active transparency systems, linking citizen trust with the accurate explanation of an internal deliberation procedure, among others) and finally placing discourse as a base context of equality in the deliberative process by reducing gaps and forms of exclusion traditionally generated by representative systems (recognizing the necessary articulation between expert knowledge with levels of deliberation and structuring of debate supported by citizen experience).
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creator: Felipe Valenzuela Espinosa
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Felipe Valenzuela Espinosa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-21
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Characterization of Arica Women in a Tri-Border Region
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description: Throughout history, women have waged tireless battles for their rights and challenged socially entrenched gender roles. Today, it is possible to identify pending tasks of relevance in Latin America, with a special emphasis on the tri-border region of Arica, Chile, where there are few studies that allow for the generation of regional development policies for women. This quantitative-descriptive characterization research is developed through a survey applied in person and recorded digitally to 401 women in Arica, where 98% of the regional population is located. The results highlight the situation of women in the social sphere, their economic condition and interests, which allow for the identification of patterns and trends that affect their development and well-being.
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creator: María Cristina Alfred Urízar
creator: Solange Aranzubia Vera
creator: Álvaro Cortínez Pontoni
creator: María José Méndez Díaz
creator: Karen Molina Ordóñez
creator: Macarena Salazar Cortés
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 María Cristina Alfred Urízar, Solange Aranzubia Vera, Álvaro Cortínez Pontoni, María José Méndez Díaz, Karen Molina Ordóñez, Macarena Salazar Cortés https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-22
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. Municipal Citizen Participation in Chile: Evolution and Impact of Legislative Changes
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description: The article analyses the evolution and impact of Chilean legislative changes in municipal and participation policies over the last four decades. The research, based on qualitative ethnography, examines the normative evolution and implementation, through interviews with mayors and a documentary review. The results reveal that, under the same regulatory framework, municipalities show dissimilar results in participation. While some implement successful mechanisms, others maintain merely formal participation. The public policies analysed reveal a gap between the regulatory framework and local execution, identifying key factors such as municipal leadership, participatory institutionalisation and municipal reorganisation. This highlights the need to further analyse the underlying causes of low participation and develop proposals to encourage it.
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creator: Adriana Sanhueza Cisterna
creator: Cristina Garcia-Moreno
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Adriana Sanhueza Cisterna, Cristina Garcia-Moreno https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-22
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Social innovation and territorial democratization: the civic-political approach of participatory budgeting in Pereira, Colombia
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description: This article analyzes social innovation (SI) approaches in the participatory budgeting of Pereira, Colombia (2016-2019), through a qualitative case study. Based on interviews, observations, and theoretical-empirical contrasts, a hybrid “civic-political” approach is identified, characterized by territorialized community agency, strategic conflict management, and impact on political culture and public management. The study concludes that this approach constitutes a “democratic innovation” with the potential to democratize local governance, although it faces challenges in sustainability and integration with long-term planning. The research provides evidence on the plurality of SI and its role in transforming territorial power relations, discussing implications for strengthening democracy and governance in the Global South.
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creator: Victor Daniel Piedrahita Medina
creator: Jenny Chalarca Hoyos
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Victor Daniel, Jenny Chalarca Hoyos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-06
publication date: 2024-12-06
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The sustainable development goals as a challenge and solution? Closing coordination gaps in three Argentine provinces
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description: The paper explores virtues of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and some of the challenges faced by public administrations when they relate to them. It highlights that the SDGs offer guidance and horizons for public action, which challenges public administrations to close capacity gaps in coordination and articulation in order to achieve them. Without generalizing, the evidence gathered in three Argentine provinces suggests that the SDGs trigger and/or catalyze underlying processes of strengthening public planning, identifying the public value added by provincial administrations and, particularly, closing capacity gaps that allow strategically addressing the usual fragmented and sectoral functioning of public administrations.
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creator: Cristhian Seiler
creator: Mario Siede
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Cristhian Seiler, Mario Siede https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-24
publication date: 2025-01-24
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Impact of macroeconomic variables on the Human Development Index: the case of Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela
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description: The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the Human Development Index (HDI) and various macroeconomic variables for the countries of Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela during the period 2000-2022. In a first stage, an ANOVA analysis was applied, in order to contrast whether there is a significant difference between the average HDI values in the four countries. Subsequently, an econometric model was estimated. It is concluded that GDP per capita has a positive effect on the HDI, while the unemployment rate and the poverty rate have an inverse relationship. The results can guide public and private institutions in promoting and implementing economic policies to reduce poverty and increase employment.
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creator: Planck Barahona Urbina
creator: Alejandro Casino Martinez
creator: Hernán Pape Larre
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Planck Barahona Urbina, Alejandro Casino Martinez, Hernán Pape Larre https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-11-22
publication date: 2024-11-22
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Urban accessibility paradoxes: standardization and fragmentation in Santiago de Chile
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description: This document explores the contradiction in accessibility standardization in Santiago, Chile, focusing on sidewalks and their connection to state policies. Employing a Science, Technology, and Society approach along with qualitative and cartographic data, it demonstrates how new accessibility standards, which amend the General Urban Planning and Construction Ordinance (OGUC), aim to unify sidewalks but ultimately lead to fragmentation due to the implementation of targeted state urbanization programs. This situation adversely affects universal accessibility within a neoliberal urban planning context. The inefficacy of current policies to address these issues is criticized, highlighting the need for more effective planning and coordination, as well as the necessity for social movements to organize and respond to this situation.
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creator: Marcos Cereceda-Otárola
creator: Víctor Yáñez-Pereira
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Marcos Cereceda-Otárola, Víctor Yáñez-Pereira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-08-26
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Crime and agricultural production: Reflections on Public Safety Risk, Productivity and transient crops rotation in a rural region of Colombia
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description: Given the situation of structural conflict in the country, the termed “public risk factor” in the Colombian countryside requires studies and applied methodologies for its evaluation and knowledge. The present research aims to present an analysis of the relationship between agricultural productivity of transitional crops and the typology of crimes during the period 2010-2015 in the 210 municipalities that make up the departments of Boyaca and Cundinamarca. As it was not possible to have a collection of information that is disaggregated from the geographical point of view, the databases of the Ministry of Agriculture of Colombia and the Ministry of National Defense (division of the criminal investigation and INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) by applying classical linear regression in order to assess through an econometric model based on the relationship of crime typology and other variables directly related to agricultural production. The model shows low significance in trade theft, personal injuries and cell theft may not have an indirect impact in agricultural production for the studied region.
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creator: Gregorio Enrique Puello-Socarrás
creator: Henry Daniel Vera Ramírez
creator: Juan Carlos Acosta Quevedo
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Gregorio Enrique Puello-Socarrás, Henry Daniel Vera Ramírez, Juan Carlos Acosta Quevedo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-08-28
publication date: 2024-08-28
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