Global Processes and Local Consequences of Decentralization: A Sub-national Comparison in Mexico

TOPAL YILMAZ A.

REGIONAL STUDIES, cilt.49, sa.7, ss.1126-1139, 2015 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 49 Sayı: 7
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00343404.2013.812782
  • Dergi Adı: REGIONAL STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1126-1139
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Mexico, Local development, Competitiveness, Decentralization, Neoliberalization, R11, R58, P16, O21
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Topal A. Global processes and local consequences of decentralization: a sub-national comparison in Mexico, Regional Studies. This paper argues that through decentralization policies, the imperatives of neoliberal rules of competition have been diffused into the local level, generating different development patterns depending upon characteristics of the local economy and its insertion into global processes. Therefore, implications of decentralization policies can be analysed by focusing on prevailing local economic activity and a particular pattern of class forces that arise from it. The paper attempts to make the case that how each local economy integrates into global economic processes, and which economic and social groups are empowered and/or disempowered in that integration, shape the pattern of local development.