La Constitución de la Ciudad de México, la ciudadanía y la participación. Continuidades y cambios en la participación y la gobernanza urbana de la Ciudad de México

Abstract

The present article analyzes the transformations of Citizens Participation generated by the inception of a new constitution. Asses the consequences of the new rules for the City’s political dynamics. The central question of the article is whether or not the constitution has produce a significant change in participatory processes or, on the contrary, just sanctioned sociopolitical processes that were already regulated in old laws; in this senses shows the importance of the new constitutional rules in front of the complexities of collective action in the largest metropolis of Mexico. The articles uses a combination of methods, including ethnography, direct observation, interviews with key actors and extensive documentary analysis.