Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The growth of the Peruvian higher education democratized the access to a larger proportion of the population, but due to the lack of regulation, low-quality institutions emerged. Since 2012, several reforms pursue the improvement of quality and enhance the productivity and scientific-technological impact, in a process that could be developed without organization or strategy. This research collects the vision and mission of universities, analyzing them with an ontological framework to describe and understand the impact of the aspirations that universities propose to the country, assessing if they are being met, and the areas that need greater efforts for their deployment. The results reveal a major teaching approach, and an early development of the scientific research activity.

From a statistical-inferential perspective, this article analyzes the socioeconomic situation of Chilean households during the pandemic, especially those that report the presence of elderly people, since this population group faces particular epidemiological and economic risks that threaten their well-being. The results show that economic income has declined during the months of crisis, diminishing solvency and satisfaction of needs among families. In addition, they have had to implement various economic strategies to reduce their expenses and generate income, actions that contribute to temporarily sustain the family economy, but increase future vulnerability. The conclusions highlight the need to strengthen public policy measures and the social security system provided to the elderly.

Immigration has multiplied almost sixfold in the last thirty years in Chile; nevertheless, there is little knowledge about its strategies for cultural adaptation, perceived discrimination, and well-being, three dimensions that in this article are measured in an intermediate city (Talca, Chile), using a non-probability sample of South American migrants made up of 255 adults, matched by gender, most of which are Venezuelans, with a high educational level, bicultural (92.4%), and with a high well-being index (M=8.56 out of 10, SD=1.21). The results indicate that 41.1% perceive high discrimination, and that there is a significant negative relationship between perceived discrimination and both the tendency to biculturalism and well-being. These and other results are discussed.

With the ascension of Macri to the Argentinian Presidency after a period of Kirchnerist governments, an important change occurred in foreign and domestic policies. We analyze foreign policy between 2015- 2019 in relation to the South American region and other important international actors such as the United States of America, China, European Union and United Kingdom. This analysis shows a regional scene of relevant reconfigurations as result of the search for realignment with United States of America, which meant the end of a regionalism that reached greater margins of autonomy. We also approach the relationship between the political platform that was maintained and the policies that were implemented. The study of the Argentinian case allows us to address the transformation process of political and regional integration dynamics that characterized the first decade of the 21st century.

This article seeks to show the way in which the criminal justice reproduces heteropatriarchal values through the differential penalization of murders committed by fathers and mothers against their children. We will analyse the case of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires and focus on the way in which these penal practices are permeated and informed by the hegemonic myth women-mother and by the universe of social imaginary significations around maternity that it organizes. We propose a qualitative approach that includes analyses of trial records as well as of interviews done to judges and prosecutors.

What explains that legislators present legislative instruments in order to distribute local public goods in their electoral districts? Previous literature on political representation in legislatures has focused on understanding policy making (Harden, 2013). However, a gap persists in detailing whether they focus on distributing local public goods. It is argued that, in contexts with strong party leadership, leaders are interested in distributing local public goods and seek to satisfy the preferences of the median voter, especially in two conditions: single-member districts and cosponsor ship. The cases of Costa Rica and Mexico are studied, and estimating a regression model the hypotheses are confirmed.

Spain and Mexico are strongly decentralized countries and powerhouses in open data. For this reason, we will assess at the level of their intermediate governments autonomous communities and states, respectively) the active transparency of their open data portals, which are the ones that house truly reusable information. After reviewing 18 000 data sets, we can affirm that there is a greater development of regional repositories in Spain than in Mexico in terms of data sets related to accountability and that only one success case has been identified, País Vasco.

As a result of the deepening of relations between Argentina and China, and the promotion of Spanish language learning in higher education in China, Chinese university students have become active participants, communicators and promoters of bilateral relations. This article pays attention to the stereotypical image that these university students have about Argentina. For this purpose, the results of a questionnaire applied to 412 Chinese university students are used. The analysis shows that this group has formed stereotypes in five dimensions and determines the impact among the respondents of those related to sympathy and interest in this South American nation and its people.

In 2015, feminist activism in Argentina reached an unprecedented scale with the Ni Una Menos march. Taking this protest as empirical terrain, this article investigates the factors that explain why young women join feminist movements. In particular, why did they take to the streets to protest and denounce femicides and gender violence. Through interviews with young people, organizers of the march and long-standing feminist activists, it is shown how a novel call framed in prefigurative and performative terms, in addition to the pre-existing feminist organizational matrix, were conditions that enabled the channeling of a young sensibility into street protest. The work highlights generational units, youth structural availability and movement expressive politics as conditions for youth feminist protest.

The paper analyzes the theoretical approaches on democracy and authoritarianism and makes them dialogue with the two decades of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. It reviews the regime change during the Chavismo government (1999-present), and identifies the role of the recentralization process as a strategy in the transition towards hegemonic authoritarianism. What is the effect of recentralization and why does it serve as a fulcrum for regime change? We argue that the concentration of power, through the subordination of territorial authorities and the subjugation of local autonomy within a recentralization process, gives governments an impulse to harden their authoritarian actions.