Abstract
As a governmental function, development for progress and welfare is a highly complex process that involves updating various attributes (such as a paradigm, critical or alternative, depending on of the way in which they are articulated regarding social aspects, environmental, and economic growth, as well as the institutional capacity of public and private actors). Regarding this, we are interested in the municipal institutional capacity (MIC) as a skill to carry out the functions and appropriate tasks that municipalities must fulfill in an effective, efficient, and sustainable way, and it varies considerably, depending on each local context. In order to analyze the relevance of the current official regionalization as a state government strategy for the centralized construction of MIC, an exploratory approach to its spatial behavior in the State of Veracruz, Mexico, was carried out. Given the nature of the study, a purely mixed approach, sequential exploratory design, subnational analysis methodology, and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) were employed. The variable to be analyzed is the 2016 Municipal Functional Capacities Index (Índice de Capacidades Funcionales Municipales (ICFM)), with the Geostatistics Framework cartographic base of the 2020 Population and Housing Census. The analysis units are 212 municipalities in the 2014–2017 government period. As a result, it was confirmed that the current regionalization was irrelevant, owing to the absence of global spatial autocorrelation, and it was concluded that targeted interventions are necessary according to regional modeling techniques, based on scientific evidence.
Highlights
IntroductionIntroduction published maps and institutional affilInstitutional capacity (IC) is a common public management issue [1] that has gained space in development studies (the form of development that we mean is the development for progress and welfare, as conceived in The United Nations Global Goals for SustainableDevelopment (SDGs)) as both a theoretical question and operational concern, as there is consensus that conditions the results of government action [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]
It is worth highlighting the importance of the application of the subnational analysis (SNA) strategy, which leads to a better understanding of the spatially uneven nature of contemporary transformations [27] and of spatial analysis, which studies the relationships between variables whose data are georeferenced and allow identifying the different spatial distributions of the variables and the importance that the spatial component exerts in these distribution patterns
To avoid the risk of treating subnational units of analysis as independently distributed observations without previously considering the effect of spatial structures on the results, relationships of interest, and design and evaluation of analytical models. Supported by these authors, we considered that the information obtained in this way represents a valuable input for the formulation of correction strategies based on evidence, as it allows us to select an approach in accordance with the behavior of the data, whether it is national or subnational, leading to the implementation of targeted policies
Summary
Introduction published maps and institutional affilInstitutional capacity (IC) is a common public management issue [1] that has gained space in development studies (the form of development that we mean is the development for progress and welfare, as conceived in The United Nations Global Goals for SustainableDevelopment (SDGs)) as both a theoretical question and operational concern, as there is consensus that conditions the results of government action [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]. Institutional capacity (IC) is a common public management issue [1] that has gained space in development studies The strengthening of government capacities to manage development stands out in the objectives of various national and international projects that constitute axes of politics and contemporary public administration in Mexico such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the plans of development of the state and national government levels, as well as their sectoral and specific programs (Appendix A, Table A1).
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