En la frontera del debate global-local: la provisión de bienes públicos desde la gobernanza escalar

Abstract

Local governance sets a clear border between agency-structure and between globallocal. Where to situate public goods in this division? The provision of public goods is under global or local governance? Facing this dichotomy, new governance approaches try to diffuse this border to comprehensively explain what is meant by «public goods.» This article argues that it is necessary to situate local governments within transnational scales of governance which articulate regulatory settings with socio-productive networks in specific geographical spaces. In this scenario, scale governance cannot work without overlapping the agency and the structure to provide public goods. This assumes that the dichotomy globallocal is not useful anymore but it is substituted with glocal processes. This article presents the cases of the governments of Medellin, Colombia and Jalisco, Mexico to evidence how they: 1) pretend to become transnationalized to design scale governance architectures and 2) provide public goods through the combination of hierarchical and heterarchical relations with a diversity of agents.