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Territorial power and state resources: the National Autonomist Party during the formation of the Argentinian state, 1862-1916
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)In this paper the organizational characteristics of the Argentinian National Autonomist Party, between 1862 and 1916, were analyzed, with the main focus on the rivalry between its territorial factions and on the political ... -
Socio-environmental contextualization of agave in Tonaya, Jalisco, Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)In Tonaya, the Agave angustifolia Haw has been cultivated since 1845, but today has been replaced almost entirely by the Agave tequilana Weber. This replacement and the increase in the demand for agave liquor caused ... -
Economic valuation for the socio-environmental protection of the vaquita porpoise, an endemic species
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)The impact of irrational human practices on the environment makes it indispensable to implement measures, such as the Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve, in order to preserve the natural ... -
From fire suppression to fire management in La Sepultura Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas: peasant perspectives
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)Policies on firefighting within protected natural areas have shifted from a suppression approach to one of fire management, which has had consequences for the practices and perspectives of peasant populations. The study ... -
Effects of public financing for innovation: microeconomic perspective based on a study of small businesses
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)In theory, public financing aimed at encouraging business innovation is justified, but in practice controversy exists over the evaluation of impacts derived from the use of these resources. The aim of this paper is to ... -
Water management and the nation’s resources: the Federal Board of Material Improvements, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, 1931-1936
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)The government constituted the Federal Board of Material Improvements in order to manage and control the economic resources and the construction of public works at México’s borders and ports. The general purpose of this ... -
Mexican onion: a competitiveness analysis in the American market, 2002-2013
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)The onion (Allium cepa) is the second most produced vegetable worldwide. The United States is the world’s largest importer of onions, and Mexico, Canada and Peru are its major suppliers. This article evaluates the ... -
Learning about the limits to upgrading: the cluster of the television-set industry in Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)The aim of this paper was to determine the evolution of television set industry in Tijuana. The methodology used to analyze the industrial upgrading process involved a comparison between two critical moments in this industry: ... -
Types of corruption and satisfaction with public services. Mexican case evidence
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)This article analyzes the effects of how corruption concerning satisfaction with the public services offered by local Mexican governments, such as police protection, public lighting, drinking water, care of parks and gardens ... -
Cambios en el empleo e ingreso de los hogares rurales de México, 2002-2007
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)This article analyzes changes in Mexico’s rural labor market by identifying the main sources of employment and income of rural households for the 2002-2007 period. Quantitative analysis is based on panel data from the ... -
Main determinants of informality: a regional analysis for Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The aim of this study is to examine the most frequently-cited factors in order to explain informality in Mexico and to know if they have the same effect across the country. First, through cross-section analysis of microdata ... -
Legislative opposition and political patronage. Public Sector Wages in Mexican States (2001-2012)
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)This article argues that political patronage depends on the opposition’s bargaining strength in Congress. This hypothesis is tested by analyzing Mexican state governments’ public spending on salaries. Statistical information ... -
Using a dominance criterion to select a human development index
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The purpose of this study was to compare, via a dominance analysis, two subjective and three objective indexes by using the standard deviation, critic and entropy methods in order to determine the dominant index. The ... -
Nuevo Leon’s citrus sector: characterization of the agri-food system as a platform for integration of the producer with agro-industry
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The aim of the study is to identify the producers and marketers in Nuevo Leon’s citrus system in order to integrate them into the agro-industrial sector on the basis of the processes of the methodological approach to the ... -
Discrimination, poverty and vulnerability: the intricacies of social inequality in Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)This article presents an approach to the study of the relationship between discrimination and poverty in Mexico. By using the databases of the 2010 National Survey on Discrimination, the importance of poverty is quantified ... -
Arizona against illegal immigration (SB 1070 law); the bivalence of the “Final Solution” concept
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The purpose of this paper is to expose the undocumented immigration situation in 2010 in view of the enactment of the SB 1070 law in Arizona. The issue is addressed on the basis of how legislation was dealt with by the ... -
Growth, institutions and power groups. The forgotten effects in Sinaloa, 1994-2014
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)Through a non-numerical model, this research identifies the relations of causality revealed by omissions of the power groups that are in charge of political and economic institutions in Sinaloa, and which account for the ... -
Implementing relational marketing in a coffee selling company in Baja California
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The aim of this investigation is to propose a relationship marketing process in a coffee selling company in Baja California as a case study. First, relationship marketing is conceptualized and its contribution to the ... -
Typology and differentiation of guava (Psidium guajava l.) producers in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)This study presents the typology of guava producers in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mexico, which was developed from information obtained from the 91 surveys applied to them. Through the cluster and discriminant analyses, ... -
Everyday mobility and infrastructure in the configuration of non peri-urban rural space
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The purpose of this article is to determine how the non peri-urban rural space in the Mexico’s central region, which is a highly urbanized context, is organized. Changes taking place within the framework of globalization ...