TY  - SER
AU  - Cabrero-Mendoza, Enrique
TI  - Mexican local governance in transition: fleeting change or permanent transformation?
PY  - 2000///
KW  - Local government - Mexico
KW  - Local government
N2  - Important innovations have recently democratized local government in Mexico and improved its performance.  These include changes in mayors' leadership style, broader citizen participation, and improved intergovernmental relations and public management systems.  But these changes have not come easily.  This article analyzes obstacles to institutionalizing changes, presents the negative effects of some new public management-based reforms, and analyzes the paradoxes that accompany this transition from autocracy to the current "limited democratization." - Reproduced
BR  - AR47757
ER  -