Abstract

Among municipal studies researchers, there is a consensus about the role that local government must do to achieve economic (regional development and competitiveness), political (democratization and citizen participation) and administrative (strategic planning and technical rationality) objectives, that imposes the “good local government” propose and, moreover, the “local government of new generation”, linked to fast growth of information and communication technologies (ICT). This idea is building, mainly on the democratic expectation of political change and on modernization of the cities management. However, in the institutional order prevail lags linked to the traditional model: centralism, monolithic structure of the municipal council and lack of channels for effective involvement of civil society in designing and implementing local public policies. Recent reforms to the political representation system in Sinaloa’s municipalities reinforce this trend.

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