Evaluando las instituciones políticas de los distritos federales

• Main Author: Juan Manuel Abal Medina (H.)
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede México 2003-06-01
• Series: Perfiles Latinoamericanos
• Subjects: federalismo; distritos federales; evaluación de desempeño institucional; gobiernos locales; sistema electoral; monitoreo electoral; rendición de cuentas; diseños institucionales.
• Online Access: http://perfilesla.flacso.edu.mx/index.php/perfilesla/article/view/287

<p>This article aims to apply suitable methodological instruments for evaluating institutional output of different designs of local administration. Starting from an awareness that the institutional dimension of government embraces a number of different elements, it states the need for a comprehensive view enabling these separate elements to be analyzed separately in order to gauge the effects of this institutional framework upon the resulting quality of government. Thus three different evaluation criteria are worked with, capable of being applied in different institutional contexts so as to assess dispersion or concentration of political power, their proportional or disproportional nature, and their greater or lesser capacity for monitoring electoral systems. The crossing of the three criteria produces a model for evaluating systems of government which is then applied to three political capitals of federal states: the “Federal Districts” of Washington DC, Mexico City and Buenos Aires.</p>