This article contributes to the understanding of water governance and self-management of natural resources in Latin America, based on the research question: Who are the key actors in the relationships between community water systems and the government in rural areas of Colombia? Using qualitative methods, including interviews and content analysis of water policies, we describe the gap between the actors and relationships in the policies and water governance practices implemented by community water plants. We found that both public officials and community leaders recognize the importance of community water plants in water management and the democratic strengthening of rural communities. One obstacle to effective collaboration in water governance is the mutual distrust among parties. We also observed the crucial role of nonprofits and universities in supporting community water management in rural areas. This study contributes to the literature on water governance and self-management of natural resources in Latin America.
Although academic literature has assured that the growth of organizations (also of public ones) is influenced by the management of their intangible assets (Sztompka, 1999), traditionally it has only been the corporate sector that has dedicated attention and resources to them. This article shows that public management of intangibles, and more specifically of citizen engagement, is key to increasing the wealth of nations. Based on previous research (Piqueiras, 2019, 2020; Piqueiras and Canel, 2021), the influence of citizen engagement on the wealth of 16 countries is identified through a linear regression model that allows to link each specific component of this resource. The findings establish a direct and positive relationship between GDP per capita and the level of citizen engagement that the public administration is able to build in its citizens. Findings provide clues to better gear public management to the development of wealth through building this intangible resource.
How do levels of government coordinate to improve road accessibility? This article will examine the degree of accessibility to the paved road, one of the indicators included in section IX of article 36 of the LGDS in a 2013 reform. Previous literature indicates that the accessibility to the paved road network must be analyzed from two dimensions: one geographical and one social. The argument of the article is that political parties -especially municipal presidents- also play an important role in explaining the distribution of resources at the local level, specifically in road infrastructure, as well as political participation and competition. A quantitative analysis is performed, and the results are consistent.
Studies on administrative burdens have suggested that citizens' negative experiences when trying to gain access to public services or benefits produce feedback mechanisms that affect their satisfaction with and trust in government in general. In this article, we test this hypothesis using original data from a 2022 Mexican survey on the burdens people face in administrative tasks in their everyday lives. Contrary to our expectations, we found no statistical evidence that greater experience of administrative burdens affects trust in government or the perception of its performance. In addition to possible methodological explanations, these findings also suggest that the functioning of feedback mechanisms depends on contextual variables, such as people's expectations of public bureaucracies before interacting with them. Negative bureaucratic experiences can simply confirm citizens' expectations about the costs involved in interacting with bureaucracies.
This study will analyze Tax Morale (TM), performing a correlation meta-analysis, with the predictor variable Trust in Institutions (TI), and the moderating effect of the corruption and Shadow Economy (SE). Twenty-three studies were selected considering a total sample of 109 countries. The results obtained confirm that the size of the effect between TI and TM is positive and significant, also it is evident that corruption and SE behave as moderators. Based on these results, it is possible to conclude that it is pertinent for governments to apply policies that improve citizen confidence, and, with it, TM. It is also essential to reduce the level of corruption and shadow economy in the countries, to strengthen the relation studied. Based on the results, future lines of research are proposed.
This research analyzed how the armed conflict influenced the relationship between decentralization policies and municipal performance in the Catatumbo region between 2018 and 2021, highlighting the need to adapt the Municipal Performance Index (iDM) to include variables that reflect the specificities of conflict contexts. Catatumbo, home to 15.10% of the department's population (DANE, 2023), has faced state neglect and armed conflicts involving groups such as the EARc-EP, EPL, and ELN. The rise of coca cultivation has also sparked land disputes. Despite decentralization efforts, territorial control by armed groups has limited the autonomy of local governments, negatively impacting decision-making and resource allocation. Quantitative results indicate that, while there are no significant differences in most iDM dimensions compared to other municipalities outside Catatumbo, the health sector presents unique challenges, with improvements in coverage but significant difficulties in service delivery due to perceived insecurity. The qualitative analysis reinforces these findings, showing how pressure from non-state actors undermines the effectiveness of decentralized policies and weakens public trust in institutions. Moreover, inadequate management of natural resources and changes in royalty distribution have exacerbated poverty, underscoring the importance of adjusting iDM metrics to better capture the realities in conflict-affected areas.
The research intertwines the theories of collaborative governance, resources and capacities, complex systems and good living. The objective is to analyze the organizational capacities generated by collaborative governance in the coffee associations of the Colombian-Ecuadorian border. It is qualitative, non-experimental, transversal, descriptive. At the orga nizational level, 57 associates were interviewed with semi-structured interviews about human, structural and relational associative capital. The question that guides the work is: How does collaborative governance promote the improvement of the organizational capacities of coffee associations in the Colombian-Ecuadorian border? The results show that collaborative governance provokes bifurcations in the social system by integrating associations, public institutions, NGos and universities, and it allows the innovation of organizational capacities in partners and management of coffee associations through diagnosis, intervention and measurement of results from intellectual capital, which is presented as a contribution to administrative
The tripartite governance mechanisms, through which housing and land policies for lower-income populations are formulated and managed, have shown their limitations, since informal neighborhoods still represent 70 per cent of the municipal capitals in Colom-bia. For this reason, the objective of this article, resulting from research, is to propose the concept of associative governance, as an alternative to rethink public land and housing policies, since in the six case studies it has demonstrated its ability to solve the problems of informal neighborhoods, where other governance models have failed. The mechanisms of deliberation, negotiation and co-production in associative governance show how socializa-tion and joint work solve needs in terms of public services, habitat and social services in multiple neighborhoods.
Urban Air Mobility is a novel concept that is expected to revolutionize urban transport in the medium to long term. This emerging transport alternative is largely due to the development of vertical takeoff and landing electric vehicles, which will use a very reduced ground support infrastructure and will offer air transport services at an urban and interurban level (characterized by a significant reduction in travel time, and minimal or zero emissions). Due to the novelty of this emerging technology, for a few years both the industry and the academy have been working on the technical and scientific dissemination of all its components and concepts. After an exhaustive review of the scientific literature, a rich and varied production of the subject is found in almost all concepts, except in that of public policies, one of the most complex aspects, and which can contribute, like no other, to the successful start and evolution of urban air mobility. For this reason, the objective of this research is to propose lines of political action and policy recommendations to be implemented, and that generate a solid framework for the development of this mode of transport, and that not only benefits the industry, but also the development of the cities, and of course, to the communities.
Reparations policies within the framework of transitional justice, as implemented by Chile and Colombia, serve as mechanisms for addressing the harm inflicted upon victims. This paper explores the construction of the memory concept within official reparations policies in these two countries. The methodology used was a transnational comparative analysis, developed through a content analysis to examine the formulation of memory in official reparation policies. The findings reveal a prescriptive global memory model characterized by four key aspects: the interplay between memory and official truth, memory institutions, the role of archives, and commemorative practices. The study concludes that despite historical differences, Chile and Colombia exhibit strikingly similar approaches in addressing their violent pasts through a prescriptive global memory model within transitional justice.
This article presents an analysis of the role that the department should assume in Colombia in terms of provision of goods and services given the weaknesses that characterize municipalities today. For this, the territorial categorization tool established in the Political Constitution of 1991 was used, which proposes the grouping of territorial entities and the definition of different regulatory regimes in order to distinguish, among other aspects, the functions that correspond to each group. Through the use of ACP, three sets of 9, 14 and 9 departments were obtained, for which municipal groups were first made and then the composition of these municipal groups within each of the departments was established. Finally, the functional emphases of each group of municipalities were identified to later determine the roles of the departmental groups in terms of direct provision, municipal assistance and regional planning.
The relationship between accountability and performance is still blurred and continues to be contested since the possible relationship is understudied. There is a strong need for new studies that attempt to illuminate the possible linkage between accountability and performance. This study aims to understand and illuminate this possible linkage. For this aim, a qualitative study has been conducted in a metropolitan municipality as a governmental organization in Turkey. In the end, a recursive linkage between accountability and performance has been explored and defined. Under this title two different form of relationships are also defined in detail: linear sequencing and incremental sequencing.
This research analyzes the mediating role of voluntary environmental regulation on the relationship between mimetic, normative, and coercive pressures and the environmental performance of certified companies in an emerging country. This study uses an instrumental- variable research design and structural equation modeling with survey data from 225 c ertified companies. It was found that voluntary environmental regulation increases the predictive validity of mimetic and normative pressures on environmental performance. Voluntary environmental regulation also fully mediates the relationship between pressure for compliance with regulation and environmental performance. This study contributes to the body of environmental management and policy literature in two ways: 1) it demonstrates the usefulness of institutional theory in explaining the adoption of voluntary environmental regulation; 2) it offers empirical evidence of the benefits and limits of voluntary environmental regulation in a context characterized by institutional voids.
Transparency, a value that must be built through organizational actions, is a chal lenge commonly faced by public administration. This challenge is addressed through spe cific actions embedded in the control environment, which become part of the routine and behavior of every public official to establish a constant flow of information within and ou t side an entity. To gather information supporting the above, a tool was designed (semi structured interviews) and applied to eight public officials. The results revealed actions within their control environment dynamics, highlighting the interaction that gives organizational mean ing to endogenize transparency. This exploration of actions not only opens up new possi bilities for making a profound change in organizational culture, starting from managerial levels, but also instills hope and optimism for a more transparent public administration. It underscores the importance of addressing individual and organizational aspects, paving the way for a more transparent future. As a result, this research not only contributes to the de velopment of investigations focused on analyzing the control environment in public orga nizations but also provides a beacon of hope for public administration professionals and policymakers.
We still know little about the psycho-organizational antecedents related to the prevention of acts of corruption in government. This empirical study examines the distinctive impact of two emotions with negative valence, fear and anger, as catalysts or inhibitors of whistleblowing among public employees. Through an experimental study with local government officials in Mexico, we show that people who experience anger are significantly more likely to report acts of corruption, especially when exposed to high-intensity stimuli. On the other hand, intense fear can powerfully inhibit whistleblowing. These findings provide relevant evidence of the impact of emotional cues on whistleblowing in the context of a government organization. Based on these results, we suggest that emotion management could be an effective tool to improve integrity levels in public bureaucracies.
The general objective of the research is to determine the effects of the consolidation of corruption in municipal public policies in Mexico. This is done based on the Corruption Consolidation Framework (ccF) analytical framework (Meza and P & eacute;rez-Chiqu & eacute;s, 2020), which defines three dimensions: 1) administrative structure, 2) transparency, 3) checks and balances. The research observes 255 municipalities based on a quantitative methodological design that points out the comparative observation in dissimilar municipal realities. For this, a database is created whose information is obtained from various sources, such as surveys, institutional repositories and administrative censuses, allowing the development of various indices and objective measures of the municipal reality. With this, a robust analysis is obtained that allows us to conclude with the various effects of the consolidation of corruption on the quality of public policies that characterize the types of subnational political systems.
In this research, a group of charging messages for the payment of taxes was investigated. Altogether 12 variations of billing messages (social norms, simplification, disclosure, previous engagement, reminders and previous choices) were evaluated, and their effectiveness was tested. The messages were transmitted to defaulting microentrepreneurs in four Brazilian states. From a database containing information about defaulting micro entrepreneurs, 250 thousand text messages were sent making charges. The data were obtained from the Secretaria Especial da Micro e Pequena Empresa (Sempe). Tests were used to analyse the difference between means and Logistic Regression was used in sequence. The Random Forest, Logistic Regression and Na & iuml;ve Bayes widgets were used to indicate the robustness of the Machine Learning predictive model. The research findings indicated that the formats "simplification", "previous choices" and "alert", employees, did not have an effect in combating default. However, when aligned with social norms, messages in the form of "past options" and "reminders" increase the payment of debts. The widgets used indicated an excellent fit to the machine learning model. The Random Forest tool attested with superiority that the model is robust and suitable for the predictive function. The results of the research provide a contribution to public policies when they present an effective action to reduce defaults in the payment of taxes. The use of messages in the social norm format can be adapted to other situations, constituting a suggestion for future research.
The introduction of quasi -tax to strengthen animal health programs in Colombia brought profound changes in the government of the country's livestock sector by moving from a public model to one of public -private cooperation. The research analyzes the governance mechanisms that were established in livestock, poultry, and pig farming, in order to review the incidence of adjustments in the progress of health control. For this purpose, a multiple case study of the livestock promotion funds of the three subsectors was carried out, which showed that quasi -tax and the public -partnership model have allowed formal and practical consolidation for disease control in the country.
This paper aims to identify the necessary or sufficient conditions that promote the installed photovoltaic (Pv) capacity in Mexico. To do this, different configurations of conditions are identified, which can lead to the same desired case, through the comparative qualitative analysis of complex cases. The analysis suggests that, to boost the installed Pv capacity, a long-term planning of the Mexican Pv industry should be carried out. The starting point of such a plan should consists of the following five necessary conditions: a) tax credit for investment or production; b) feed in tariff & feed in premium; c) development of intellectual, technical and professional capital; d) the promotion of research and development of Pv technology, and e) to include installed Pv capacity in smart grids.
This paper analyzes the passive transparency which is one of the open government principles. To measure the degree of use of the right of access to public information, the portals for citizens' information requests are explored. Data corresponds to 2017-2019 among the capital states together with Buenos Aires (CABA) and Bahia Blanca. The aggregation by themes criteria of CABA is used as a baseline to compare among cities. Besides, passive transparency indicators from the governments' side are exposed. Together with CABA and Bahia Blanca, only Cordoba and Santa Fe accomplish the principle. The best positioned city is CABA, followed by Bahia Blanca, Cordoba and Santa Fe. Three types of municipalities are distinguished, and differences are explained by claims and evaluation of the right to access to public information.
