Abstract

OLMEDA, JUAN C.. THE PENDULUM DE-CENTRALIZATION, RE-CENTRALIZATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE EDUCATION REFORM IN MEXICO. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2014, vol.9, n.2, pp.143-164. ISSN 1909-3063.

During the last decades of the XX century, Latin American countries experienced significant decentralization processes in terms of administrative, political and fiscal affairs. More recently, however, national executives in many countries in the region encouraged recentralization policies with the goal of regaining prerrogatives and responsibilities. The goal of this article is to study this recentralization trend, building on the literature that during the last years has attempted to explain these recentralization dynamics. Three hypothesis can be derived from those works in order to identify the reasons behind recentralization. According to these hypothesis, recentralization could be the result of the existence of unified government, the consequence of a stabilized economy after a hyperinflationary crisis or the result of national executive's intention to punish subnational government controlled by the opposition. A fourth additional hypothesis states that recentralization can emerge as a result of the imposibility of subnational governments to deliver those services previously decentralized. Taking into account this conceptual framework the article analizes some recent recentralization measures observed nowadays in Mexico in relation to the education sector.

Keywords : Decentralization; recentralization; Mexico; Peña Nieto; education.

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