México

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The official name of Mexico is the United Mexican States and is a federal republic formed
by 31 states and a Federal District, which is Mexico City. There are three levels of government:
federal,state, and municipal. Each level has certain degree of political and administrative autonomy.
Municipalities have an elected council chaired by the municipal president. This council—called“cabildo”—has both executive and legislative functions. At the state level, there is a Governor,
representing the executive branch, a state legislature, and a state judicial branch headed by the
state supreme courtof justice. Finally, at the federal level the president is the head of the Executive
branch; she is elected by democratic direct voting for a six-year period without possibility of
reelection. Thelegislative branch is conformed by the Senate and the House of Representatives,
128 senators and 500 representatives. The judicial branch is represented by the Supreme Court
with 11 Justices.Supreme Court Justices are elected by the House of Representatives every 15
years.
The country’s borders are with the United States of America to the north and with Guatemala
and Belize to the south. TheMexican territory spans 1,964,375 square kilometers.
Mexico’s politico-administrative regime includes characteristics similar to the United
States, Canada, and France, among others. Table 1summarizes the main characteristics using
the framework developed by Pollitt and Bouckaert (2000). Regarding the basic structure of
the state, as mentioned before, Mexico is a federal system byconstitution and the autonomy
of state and local governments is clearly established. However, for more than 60 years a single
political party dominated the three levels of government and there was a de factocentralization
of power around the federal government. A decentralization process started in 2000, but there
are still examples of this quasi-federal regime. Regarding the horizontal...
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