Apertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores

This paper analyses why the Mexican fiscal system remains highly centralised in spite of the process of political openness. The argument is that Mexican state governors perceive that there is a political cost for unpopular fiscal decisions, which negatively impact the future of their careers. This p...

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Autor principal:	Víctor Manuel Figueras Zanabria
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Lenguaje:	EN FR PT
Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2009
Materias:	careers decentralization governors openness presidentialism Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a6917184b9bf4962bbf9874d9f319a5a2021-12-02T10:40:07ZApertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.55760https://doaj.org/article/a6917184b9bf4962bbf9874d9f319a5a2009-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/55760https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This paper analyses why the Mexican fiscal system remains highly centralised in spite of the process of political openness. The argument is that Mexican state governors perceive that there is a political cost for unpopular fiscal decisions, which negatively impact the future of their careers. This paper provides empirical evidence about the political careers of Mexican governors and identifies a traditional pattern, which suggests that governors have been excluded from the top positions of the political hierarchy. There is also evidence of the discretionary power of the president to remove governors from their offices. In a second section, the paper explains how the process of political openness weakened the presidential mechanisms of control over the governors, how new and better conditions for their careers arose, and how governors and parties started to behave strategically in a context of high electoral competition. The analysis shows that the new conditions of the political system effectively increased the power of governors, but they have use it to obtain more resources from the federal government instead of negotiating a new and more decentralised fiscal system.Víctor Manuel Figueras ZanabriaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticlecareersdecentralizationgovernorsopennesspresidentialismAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2009)
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spellingShingle	careers decentralization governors openness presidentialism Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799 Víctor Manuel Figueras Zanabria Apertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores
description	This paper analyses why the Mexican fiscal system remains highly centralised in spite of the process of political openness. The argument is that Mexican state governors perceive that there is a political cost for unpopular fiscal decisions, which negatively impact the future of their careers. This paper provides empirical evidence about the political careers of Mexican governors and identifies a traditional pattern, which suggests that governors have been excluded from the top positions of the political hierarchy. There is also evidence of the discretionary power of the president to remove governors from their offices. In a second section, the paper explains how the process of political openness weakened the presidential mechanisms of control over the governors, how new and better conditions for their careers arose, and how governors and parties started to behave strategically in a context of high electoral competition. The analysis shows that the new conditions of the political system effectively increased the power of governors, but they have use it to obtain more resources from the federal government instead of negotiating a new and more decentralised fiscal system.
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author	Víctor Manuel Figueras Zanabria
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title	Apertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores
title_short	Apertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores
title_full	Apertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores
title_fullStr	Apertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores
title_full_unstemmed	Apertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores
title_sort	apertura política y descentralización fiscal en méxico: el papel de los gobernadores
publisher	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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Apertura política y descentralización fiscal en México: el papel de los gobernadores

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