El federalismo en México tras la transición a la democracia

Zusammenfassung

The aim of this research is to describe the impact of the transition to democracy in Mexican federalism and to compare the development of federalism before and after the first transition of the federal government. Similarly, intergovernmental relations and the decentralization of federal and state government are detailed as well as the organization and realization of collaborative activities done in order to carry out the agenda’s program in conjunction. Also described are the various organizations that have arisen or have been transformed after said democratic transition, strengthening Mexican federalism. What is the impact of democratic transition in the Mexican federal system? How did intergovernmental relations and decentralization in Mexican federalism develop before and after the federal democratic transition? These are the questions that guide our research. To answer these questions two hypotheses were formulated. The first is that the transition to democracy in Mexico involved the transformation of a formal federalism to a substantive federalism, thanks to a new territorial political map, a congress enriched by diversity and the birth of new institutions under federal principles, case in point CONAGO. The second indicates a greater role of the state executive, of the detriment of the presidential figure and the meta-constitutional powers, implying a gradual evolution of intergovernmental relations and decentralization of powers between the federal and state government...