The auxilary boards in Puebla and the Madrid Districts: Deconcentration as an alternative of management municipal

Abstract

The objective of this article is to contrast the organization of the Auxiliary Boards in the Municipality of Puebla with the districts of the city council of Madrid and thereby determine the effects of these deconcentrated bodies on governance and governability, establishing the organization of the districts in Madrid as reference to analyze the reform in the matter of auxiliary boards in the municipality of Puebla. The boards and districts are decentralized bodies of the municipality, however, it is important to establish the differences in functions and organization they have, since both management bodies are in a process of change districts in search of greater autonomy and in view of a political decentralization and the boards ceased to be government bodies and thereby lost autonomy. The methodology used is the theoretical revision of the key concepts of this work, the contrast of the legal framework that gives shape to both administrative bodies and the performance of semi-structured interviews to 12 auxiliary presidents of the municipality of puebla and to 6 district councilors of the city of Madrid, in order to know the perception of the local authority of the processes of decentralization and political deconcentration.