Carolina Velandia Hernandez

• Northern Illinois University

Metropolitan public transportation systems vary in their performance and governance, and evidence suggests linkages between these. However, such linkages remain largely untested due to the complexity of governance and the absence of reliable and valid measures of it. We develop a conceptual framework for understanding metropolitan public transporta...

Realism, institutional-liberalism and constructivism are state-centric. State formation and consolidation as a unitary actor that concentrates sovereignty, population, territory, autonomy, and authority is a product of modernity. This essay first address how state centrism evolved in the principal theories in IR, then present the strengths and limi...

This article discusses the debate and empirical bases of the environmental argument against Latinx immigration to the United State (US) since the 1980s decade. The environmental argument against immigration states that the level of immigration (undocumented and legal) has a statistical impact on the CO2 emissions, quality of air, and pollution. The...

Does democratization process lead to positive environmental public policies in the Colombian case? By focusing on variations in authoritarianism and democratic rule during the 1990s, this paper tests the hypothesis that an increase in democratic rule produces changes to environmental protection along two levels, legal framework and institutional ac...

Este artículo es el resultado de la investigación propuesta en el Centro de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Políticas y Sociales (cifad). Este proyecto buscó responder a la dispersión normativa, compilando en una sola codificación las normas principales y complementarias, documento inédito entregado y que reposa en la biblioteca del centro de investigac...