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GEOGRAFÍAS, ESPACIOS Y SOCIEDADES
Vol. 1, No. 1 (2005)
22-8-2006 ¤ 10:31 a.m.

Gobernabilidad metropolitana de México, entre flujos globales y transformaciones políticas: ¿en la búsqueda de una "tercera vía"?
Felipe de Alba (U. Montreal, Can)
Bernard Jouve, (ENTPE Fr.)

Abstract

In this text the authors present an analysis of the city of Mexico considering tree axes: the recent political transformations, the change of regime and its entailment with the global flows. It’s discussed the status of global city and it position, evident in the application of a series of public policies of national level that progressively transform the local political regulation. After the arrival on the power of new progressist elite, the national capital metropolis lives a series of upheaval on local, national and international scale. The authors set out, not without interrogation, that this new elite is propulsive of a "third via", searching for a new formulation to the social agreement and contesting the myriad of neoliberal changes with rows in this region in the 80's. The arguments set out consent to the announcement of o new geography of flows in the politician's legitimation in the metropolitan territory, as well as of their complex and contradictory world-wide entailments.

Keywords: Metropolises, global city, Mexico, global flow, political elite, third way.



GEOGRAFÍAS, ESPACIOS Y SOCIEDADES Vol. 1, No. 2 (2007)
Fragmentación política en México: Saturación del espacio político y acción intergubernamental en un “laboratorio” metropolitano en conflicto
Felipe de Alba (U. Montreal, Can)

Abstract
During the last three decades, the changes of the Mexican State have been promoted for neo-liberal governments. The political opening of the regime and the opposition government’s arrival to the large Mexican cities, are two others changing events. As a historical breaking consequence, the Mexico metropolis witness a socio-institutional fragmentation process defined as an experimental champ between the radicalism and the concurrence capacity of the political and social actors.

Continuing on the inclusion of Mexico in the network of global metropolis discussion, we consider then the institutional fragmentation affects the metropolitan governance. From a recent intergovernmental action meticulous analysis, we conclude the Mexico socio-institutional actors will face, for the next years, greater challenges on the conflict management and the metropolis insertion in the national political agenda.

Keywords: metropolitan areas, Mexico, public action, global metropolis, intergovernmental