Publicación de Leonardo Díaz: Globalization, Decentralization and Local Governments …

Por Leonardo Diaz Abraham

Abstract:

The generalised implementation of the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and the ambitious State decentralisation programs, began to dissolve the severity of central governments over the international sphere issues and to be shared with other actors, inside and outside the national frontiers. This added to the proliferation of affairs of transversal nature – e.g. environmental care, human security,

Human rights, gender equality – which go along the different territorial levels, sometimes outside the initiative and control of the central government. Within democratic practice, the territorial political and administrative organisation arrangement of each State, allows certain degrees of local autonomy for the defense and promotion of their interest abroad, interacting through different ways in global issues.

Latin America is illustrative about the transformations, since toward the end of the nineteen eighties almost all central governments had implemented decentralisation policies oriented to the contraction of the State and the embedding of the New Public Management.

HR Cities networking LDA Springer 2017