Institutional Innovation and crossborder governance in the U.S.-Mexico Border
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This article analyzes institutional innovation based on four dimensions such as knowledge, bureaucracy, organization, and technology. The article uses a comparative analysis using three crossborder governance models such as territoriality, open borders and mobile; also multiple dimensions of innovation that take place in the U.S.-Mexico border. The comparative analysis is complemented by a content analysis. The article makes a couple of contributions to the current literature: One, innovation is analyzed critically and highlights that it does not always produce positive outcomes; there are questionable ethical issues as well. Second, the article points out that a sole crossboder governance model is no possible because the public agenda is very diverse and complex, so there are topics more conducive to cooperate and other not so much.
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Peña, S. (2023). Institutional Innovation and crossborder governance in the U.S.-Mexico Border. Si Somos Americanos. Revista De Estudios Transfronterizos, 23. Retrieved from https://tricahuescholar.com/unap/ssa2/index.php/sisomosamericanos/article/view/1117
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Herzog, L. A. (1990). Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the United States-Mexico Border. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Herzog, L. A. y Sohn, C. (2014). The cross-border metropolis in a global age: A conceptual model and empirical evidence from the US–Mexico and European border regions. Global Society, 28(4), 441-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2014.948539
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Kuhn, T. S. (2012). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Lascurain, M. (2018). Teoría de regímenes internacionales: el caso del recurso agua en el régimen ambiental México-Estados Unidos. Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos, 18(2), 128-158.
Longo, M. (2017). The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and The Citizen after 9/11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lyon, D. (2013). The border is everywhere: ID cards, surveillance and the other. En E. Zuriek y M. Salter (Eds.), Global surveillance and policing: Borders, security, identity (pp. 78-94). Londres: Willan.
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Mondardo, M. (2020). Descolonización de la frontera de Brasil con Paraguay: los guaraníes y kaiowá transfronterizos y las multitransterritorialidades de la lucha por el tekoha. Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos, 20(2), 161-185.
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Peña, S. (2011). Regímenes de planificación transfronteriza: México-Estados Unidos. Región y Sociedad, 23(50), 115-151.
Peña, S. (2021). Movilidad transfronteriza, planeación y gobernanza en la frontera México-Estados Unidos: procesos y resultados. Gestión y Política Pública, 30(1): 1-30.
Peña, S. (2023). From territoriality to borderscapes: The conceptualisation of space in border studies. Geopolitics, 28(2), 766-794. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1973437
Rumford, C. (2006). Introduction: Theorizing borders. European Journal of Social Theory, 9(2), 155-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431006063330
Rumford, C. (2012). Towards a multiperspectival study of borders. Geopolitics, 17(4), 887-902. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2012.660584
Shachar, A. (2020). The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Saint-Germain, M. A. (1995). Similarities and differences in perceptions of public service among public administrators on the US-Mexico border. Public Administration Review, 55(6), 507-516. https://doi.org/10.2307/3110341
Sassen, S. (2000). Territory and territoriality in the global economy. International Sociology, 15(2), 372-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580900015002014
Sassen, S. (2006). Cities in a World Economy. Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Pine Forgess Press.
Sassen, S. (2007). A Sociology of Globalization. Contemporary Societies. Nueva York: W.W. Norton Co.
Sassen, S. (2013). The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.
Sohn, C. (2014). The border as a resource in the global urban space: A contribution to the cross‐border metropolis hypothesis. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(5), 1697-1711. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12071
Szary, A. L. A. y Giraut, F. (2015). Borderities: The Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders. Londres: Palgrave Macmillan.
Tapia Ladino, M. (2015). Frontera, movilidad y circulación reciente de peruanos y bolivianos en el norte de Chile. Estudios Atacameños, (50), 195-213.
Trippi, M. (2010). Developing cross‐border regional innovation systems: Key factors and challenges. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 101(2), 150-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.2009.00522.x
Van Houtum, H. (2010). Mapping transversal borders: Towards a choreography of space. En B. Riccio y C. Brambilla. (Eds.), Transnational Migration, Cosmopolitanism and Dis-located Borders. Quaderni del C.E.R.CO 7 (pp. 119-138). Rimini, Italia: Guaraldi.
Van Houtum, H. (2012). The geopolitics of borders and boundaries. Geopolitics, 10(4), 672-679. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650040500318522
Yin, R. K. (2009). Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Londres: Sage.