Groundwater governance in Cuyama valley unites in a nutshell the structural dilemmas of neoliberal environmental governance: a weak state, powerful corporations, a population called to participate but not to decide and a limited vital resource. Creating institutions of self-governance in the conflictual domain of groundwater use draws local actors ...
Se analiza el proceso de construcción de las políticas públicas regionales (PPR) en el ámbito de la Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar (REAF) del MERCOSUR con el objetivo de reconocer las particularidades de este proceso en el ámbito regional e identificar los diferentes actores y actoras (con sus particulares necesidades, intereses, val...
Law and Order Guarantee Operations are legal instruments that enable the National Armed Forces to act in Public Security. One of the most prominent and nationally known of these operations was Archangel Operation, which began with a decree aimed at preserving public order in Complexo do Alemão and Complexo da Penha (Alemão’s and Penha’s communitie...
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar los fundamentos de las políticas de CTI, desde una perspectiva latinoamericana, para cuestionar cómo las relaciones de poder, de intervención, de producción de conocimiento y de discusión entre ciencia y democracia, proponen caminos y nuevos sentidos a las cuestiones ambientales. Por tanto, es por me...
Evidence from the behavioural sciences is increasingly used to inform and improve policy around the world across many domains. These behavioural insights can be used for a number of purposes, such as improving communication to the public, encouraging healthier behaviour, and increasing the uptake of social services that improve life outcomes. Howev...
This research studies the effects of a R&D tax credit and a R&D subsidy in Mexico The Mexican tax credit removed the usual market oriented traits that define most tax credits. It essentially acted as a « deferred" subsidy, as firms got a discount on their corporate tax at the end of the fiscal year. Whereas the subsidy granted the funds at the star...
This paper analyses the impact of a public research and development (R&D) subsidy to private firms in Mexico. My estimates suggest that the subsidy has a positive impact on personnel allocated to innovation activities, but it does not have an effect on stronger measures of R&D performance, such as research personnel, patents or private R&D spending...
The conditions necessary and required to develop institutional, administrative, and policy capacity needed to conduct policy design (with all its caveats) are painfully absent from the mainstream literature. To a certain extent, it is logical because in the political-administrative contexts investigated by main- stream literature, they do exist and...
The term design thinking has gained considerable attention over the past decade in a wide range of organizations and contexts beyond the traditional preoccupations of designers. The main idea is that the ways professional designers problem solve is of value to firms trying to innovate and to societies trying to make change happen. This paper review...
The platform concept examines how strategic leadership and institutional and technological resources enable multiple distributed activities to innovate, adapt, and change. The central question addressed in this paper is: Can this potentially powerful organizing logic be harnessed for public purposes? Since governance platforms are still largely exp...
