Estado, Gobierno y Gestión Pública

Social media in the public sector: comparative analysis of the adoption of Facebook in two Municipalities of Mexico City

2022-06-13T19:58:12+00:00

In the public sector, the use of social media has become widespread. The Open Government views them as a means with great potential to put its proposals into practice. Different investigations show that local governments tend to use social media in a limited way in relation to their potential to generate conversation with citizens, take into account what they express and address their demands. The objective of this research is to make a comparative analysis of the adoption of Facebook in two municipalities of Mexico City in order to offer concrete measurements on three dimensions of its interaction with citizens: 1) relationship/interaction 2) communication and 3) management/attention. The data analyzed allows us to notice that the use of social media is at a communication level with slow progress towards more interactive levels that promote citizen participation and better management of services.

The limits of environmental democracy: an analysis of citizen participation in environmental evaluation processes in the region of La Araucanía

2023-12-11T15:08:36+00:00

In Chile, the process to decide on a project or activity that causes an environmental impact is carried out through an environmental assessment, a tool that includes citizen participation processes. Through a quantitative and qualitative approach, the effectiveness of the Environmental Assessment Service strategies in the implementation of these citizen participation mechanisms is examined. The results show an increase in the number of PACs pointing to the effectiveness of these initiatives, and it is also shown that these processes lack qualitative impact on final decision-making, as evidenced by the WTE Araucanía energy project.

Evaluation of governance and its impact on economic growth of the Pacific Alliance countries: a panel data analysis (2002-2022)

2024-09-05T21:56:36+00:00

This research analyzes the impact of public policies on the economic growth of Pacific Alliance (PA) countries, evaluating the effectiveness of governance and institutions in regional development. Using an econometric panel data model, it examines the relationship between six World Bank governance indicators and GDP growth in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru from 2002 to 2022. The variables include voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. The results show that voice and accountability, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption significantly impact economic growth, with variations across countries. These findings have implications for policy design in the context of PA economic integration.

Civic Education in the Educational Market

2024-06-01T03:56:36+00:00

Law N°21.911 aimed to transform the paradigm of citizenship education, broadening its objectives and requiring schools to develop civic education plans. Within the context of Chilean educational policy, this law protects educational freedom, enabling each educational project to devise its own plan. Through a case study, this article examines the differences in the education received by students as a result of freedom of education as a principle of educational policy in Chile. As detailed in the article, this issue affects state-run, subsidized private, and fully private schools that were investigated.

Determinants of social trust in Chile: what elements to incorporate in the design of public policies?

2024-07-11T10:53:31+00:00

Social trust corresponds to the generalised willingness to trust another person, despite not having sufficient information to judge his or her trustworthiness. There is extensive academic evidence linking trust with the subjective well-being of the population. This research seeks to identify the determinants of social trust in Chile, using human development surveys conducted by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) between 2004 and 2010, and employs a probit model to estimate the probability of possessing the attribute social trust. The results confirm that sociability, sense of control and optimism have an impact on social trust in Chile. From the results it is concluded that a promising way to stimulate trust in the long term would be the development of universal policies that favour the encounter between different groups and promote the idea of a shared fate among citizens who are not used to interacting with each other.

Multilevel collaborative governance in territories seeking decentralization: an innovative experience for sustainability in the Los Lagos Region, Chile

2024-05-01T20:44:26+00:00

Multi-level collaborative governance, a way of sharing power and managing resources, creates an opportunity for regions. This article systematizes and analyzes an innovative experience in Los Lagos Region, Chile where collaborative governance enabled the articulation of public and private actors around common sustainability and inclusion goals. The study analyzes the theoretical implications for governance studies and contributes to empirical studies about governance, identifying constraints and enablers in the process. The results suggest that collaborative governance processes are possible when innovative political leadership and professional support achieve high legitimacy. The case provides important lessons for replicable experiences of multilevel collaborative governance.

Multilevel Governance of Public Transportation in Chile: Identification and Political Analysis of Complex Problems

2024-05-03T22:47:27+00:00

This paper describes and analyzes a methodological approach applied to address the management of complex problems, with a special focus on public transportation in Chile. Based in an empirical and participatory strategy, public sector functionaries identified critical problems and challenges in the public transportation sector and developed prospective planning scenarios from a subnational, decentralizing perspective. The study confirms the predominantly technical nature of decision-making in the sector and highlights the potential contribution of a sociopolitical approach. While a political and territorial perspective should facilitate certain advance in the inclusion of actors and articulation between levels, several obstacles complicate alignment of technical decisions with the complex scenarios currently present in Chile. The multilevel governance perspective appears as an alternative for building more relevant, representative prospective planning in Chile.

Multiscalar and Multilevel Governance: Analysis of the Costa Araucanía Lagging Regions Plan in Chile

2024-06-13T04:49:35+00:00

Public policy for lagging regions aims to strengthen governance for territorial development through collaboration across communal, regional, and national levels and with the implementation of standards to increase social capital between and optimize decision-making by key stakeholders. This study draws on multilevel and multiscalar governance theory to identify gaps in the Plan implemented in the lagging region “Araucania Coast» between 2017 and 2020. The results show that, despite efforts to reinforce governance processes, the Chilean State continues to operate with a vertical, centralized, and sectoral management approach with no significant institutional change nor progress in decentralization that could have empowered the so-called lagging territories.

Local governance of childhood and adolescent policies in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

2024-05-31T17:35:33+00:00

Since the end of the 20th century, municipal governments in Argentina have developed complex and diverse agendas, incorporating problems associated with childhood and adolescence. Their emergence in municipal agendas is linked to a process of regulatory change, resulting in profound transformations in the policy process’s structure. This article analyzes the municipal role in childhood and adolescent policies in Greater Buenos Aires between 2019 and 2020, considering the change promoted by the new legislation. The methodology is based on the multiple case strategy, analyzing 24 municipalities. Interviews were held with municipal functionaries and documentary sources were analyzed. The analysis shows the emergence of a new local management pattern in this field based on the principles of multilevel and participatory governance.

Model of analysis for the study of governance networks at multiple institutional levels

2024-05-31T21:33:21+00:00

Government action in public affairs has undergone a broad transformation in recent decades, particularly in the way in which it interacts and collaborates with non-state actors to decide, manage and implement public policies,. This new way of governing is conceptualized as governance in government and public administration. Through an analysis centered on neo-institutional theory with particular emphasis on the Bloomington School and its Workshop on Political Theory and Public Policy Analysis, this paper proposes an analytical model to identify governance networks at multiple institutional levels. a comparative study in three sub-national territories in Latin America demonstrates the usefulness of this model that uses Social Network Analysis to describe the decision-making structure in which different actors interact.

Gobernanza Multinivel y sus desafíos en América Latina

2024-12-04T18:25:46+00:00