Is it possible to steer the concepts of development and transformation to a wide range of different sizes, with the aim and goal of developing and transforming our societies and social groups, our territories and places at local, sub-regional and regional levels? If this row can be built, is it poss...

Decentralisation laws take note of a sensitive movement of French society towards local recomposition to withstand the crisis. But its continuation is transforming the context and exacerbating budgetary constraints in particular. The use of the new powers transferred to municipalities does not neces...

This document initially focuses on the lessons learned from the processes of territorial administrative decentralisation throughout Colombia’s contemporary history. The second part interprets recent developments and discusses the issues related to the central government’s increased presence in terri...

Since the decentralisation process was relaunched in 2002, we have noted the persistence of problems that hinder the management of territorial development and governance. For example, difficulties remain in articulating inter-institutional policies between sub-national governments to plan and manage...

From important moments in Bolivian history, where regionalisation and decentralisation involved political debates and activities, in recent years the pressure and assertive positions of the Amazon departments, known as the ‘Media Luna’, show in a deeply heterogeneous country, with the prominent pres...

The studies on the demand for production factors in the maquiladora industry have concentrated on labour demand. This literature has advanced in two ways: specifying dynamic labour demand models; or by obtaining the resulting demands from production functions that involve constant yields at scale, s...

[ES] There was consensus on the ongoing decentralisation process characterised by the US declinn and the rise of China, although the agreement is lower about the characteristics and dynamics of the international system in the near future. Just one of the most analysed topics concerns the role of eme...

When we think about education, we should not associate it only with the Education System, as there are other spaces and other actors that contribute to our personal development. This article therefore seeks to reflect on an area, which is part of the daily life of our cities, the local government. T...

RESUMEN The work is driving the evolution of the Cuban state-owned enterprise (CCP) from the late 1980s to the present day. It analyses the changes in its management systems, the prevailing relationship between centralisation and decentralisation of the economy and business autonomy. Directions are...

Engaging political autonomy to governments is not enough to secure or improve public services, as shown in the theoretical analysis of this research. Decentralisation needs to be considered from other approaches, because only in this way creates spaces for frank relations and joint decisions between...

This article examines the contradictions of the indigenous political project in Ecuador as opposed to the projects of the central government and external actors. The promotion of collective rights has become a new central claim of indigenous peoples, who aim to participate in the formulation of the...

This article seeks to shape the process of decentralisation of state museums and how this has influenced the renewal of their museological concept. To this end, we wanted to analyse the most significant discussions that marked the transition to the new order of competence, as well as the legal docum...

La política territorial de la ciudad ha sido parte central en el debate que se ha generado después del 22 de abril. La complejidad de esta tragedia ha puesto sobre la mesa de discusión a casi todos los temas ur­banos: la descentralización, la localización industrial, el deterioro de los barrios cent...

At present, the internal regional balance of the Community of Madrid basically depends on flows of mobility. This paper analyzes regional residential mobility and migrations as related to processes of population concentration and deconcentration. To this end, we focus our attention on the evolution...

This study is novel in so far as the issue of local governments’ management capacities in the area of citizen security is very recent in the country and has therefore not been highly studied from the perspective in which it is intended to be addressed in this work. Thorough knowledge of the actions...

the particular fisonomics that federalism has presented throughout its historical and geographical expansion makes it possible to draw a parallel between the outstanding features of its formation in the 17th century in the United States of America, as a mother model, and the expansion that the pheno...

As a result of a severe institutional crisis at national level, as part of the economic emergency, the administration and operation of the ports are transferred to the provinces, a process known as the ‘provincial port’. This process was developed under the prevailing ideas of the 90s linked to admi...

Today, the internal regional balance of the Community of Madrid depends crucially on mobility flows. This work analyses regional residential mobility and migration in relation to its effect on population concentration or deconcentration processes. To this end, we focus our attention on the evolution...

The legislation of the Autonomous Communities provides for the existence of traditional bodies with a territorial scope below the municipal level, with a variety of design and purpose based on the basic state legislation. This is usually due to the need to limit the creation of new municipalities an...

The regionalisation process in Jalisco in the 1990s led to the decentralisation of the regions and the formulation of a regional development plan for each region. At present, despite the measures taken when establishing the regional plans, there are disparities in the development of the regions, the...

As in the USA there was a clear development of urbanisation spread many decades ago, in Spain this phenomenon was relatively unknown until the last thirty years, when we have started to mimic to some extent the process of American decentralisation and have begun to develop urbanisation far from the...