Usually, the creation, operation, and termination of organizations in the public sector fails to include organizational or planning elements; it also fails to take into account the citizenry and its key actors. This process is usually led by habit instead of rational guidelines, assessment, and planning aimed at meeting goals and demands. This conduct compromises the organization itself, its institutionalization process, and its ability to deliver benefits to the citizenry, which can result in its termination. The academic sector has paid scant attention to public organization termination. As a leading perspective, organizational theory can be of help in understanding this phenomenon by emphasizing the institutional approach and citizen participation; the present study used this combined approach to present and analyze the termination of Territorial Administrative Units in Ecatepec, State of Mexico in order to contribute with the theoretical and empirical understanding of this phenomenon (Flyvbjerg, 2006). Due to the nature of this study, a hemerographic research, as well as interviews with key actors of the municipal government, such as ex-managers of the units, members of the municipal council, and the personal secretary of the mayor, were made in order to obtain the needed data for the understanding of the phenomenon. Hence, although within the study a cartographic analysis made with statistical data is included, a qualitative perspective is predominant. Among the main findings, this study case allows to establish a recommendation for the public sector when creating, operating and evaluating its public organizations. Whenever the sector wants to foment the institutionalization process of its organizations, as well as try avoiding their failure, it should consider taking into account the elaboration of a deep analysis of the organizational actors, the planning processes and the citizen participation, as the theory and the empirical analysis have shown.
The article analyzes how the Mexican subnational governments responded the COVID 19 outbreak during the first stage of the crisis. The response of two subnational governments whose territory is part of the largest metropolitan area in the country that has been the focus of the pandemic is presented. We ask about the coordination instruments to face COVID-19 between the federal policy and programs with the subnational governments and argue that, during the first stage of the management of the COVID-19 crisis the institutional and organizational design of the Mexican political-administrative system has had a relevant impact on the government’s response, as well in the coordination policies. The article demonstrates that in a crisis, coordination instruments do not depend on political parties but consist of a blend of weak and suitable articulation of policies of the subnational governments with the federal strategy, as well as the need to improve the instruments of collaboration between the various levels of government in the context of a healthcare system in transformation.
The article aims to investigate whether governments tend to implement regulatory policies in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and to examine the type of citizen response to different types of policies.Given that active and collaborative citizen participation is an essential element of adequate crisis management, citizen resistance, active opposition, and demonstrations in public spaces are detrimental to the successful outcome of government policies in the face of a crisis. We employ the crisis management and institutional analyses theoretical perspectives, as well as the qualitative methods of study case and the comparative studies. We review the different types of policies implemented in different countries. Our analysis shows that there is indeed a tendency for implementing regulatory policies. It also identifies that the places where regulative policies are created and implemented without taking into account contextual aspects, it usually catalyzes citizen's discomfort. Therefore, we argue that the type of policy used is relevant to deciding what governments' responses should be and their effect on legitimacy during crises.
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