Mercedes Alda

Mercedes Alda
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  • PhD Political Science and Public Administration
  • Professor (Associate) at Rey Juan Carlos University

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Introduction
Mercedes Alda currently works at the Departamento de Derecho Público I y Ciencia Política, Rey Juan Carlos University. Mercedes does research in Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Climate policies, Electoral behaviour, Governments, and Legislative Studies. Their current projects are 'The dimension of multilevel government on the waste management policy.' and "transition energy policies and the role of local entities."
Current institution
Rey Juan Carlos University
Current position
  • Professor (Associate)
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Rey Juan Carlos University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
October 1998 - May 2015
Rey Juan Carlos University
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • Faculty of Law and Social Science. Department of Public Law I and Political Science. Area of Political Science and Public Administration
October 1995 - September 1998
Centro de Estudios Superiores Sociales y Jurídicos Ramón Carande. Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Position
  • Lecturer

Publications

Publications (39)
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The publication is part of the Proceedings of a Conference held at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in October 2023, and has just been published: https://burjcdigital.urjc.es/handle/10115/30579 (page 12) The paper presented proposed that, in order to analyze sustainable consumption and production from the point of view of its contribution to the ene...
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In this introductory article we address the concepts of “common goods” and “multilevel governance” from a theoretical perspective, while at the same time, the different contributions to this monographic issue of the journal Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas are presented. A series of articles which, as will be seen, deal with particular case...
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Objetivos: el artículo estudia las relaciones intergubernamentales (RIG) a nivel subnacional en las políticas de clima en el caso español. Más concretamente, se pretende describir las RIG en sus aspectos básicos e identificar los instrumentos de relación utilizados por los actores implicados en la política, señalando las diferencias que puedan dars...
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Climate change governance in Spain is framed between international commitments and EU legislation and encompasses several levels of government and stakeholders. Numerous climate strategies and policies have been adapted at all territorial levels over the last decade, however, there are no formal vertical channels of influence for Autonomous Communi...
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The article describes the intergovernmental relations (IGR) in the hydrological planning processes corresponding to Spanish part of the Tajo River basin district. The methodology applied includes conducting and analyzing interviews with representatives of the central administration, the autonomous communities, and experts, as well as the compilatio...
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Climate and energy policies are developed in contexts of multilevel government in highly decentralized states such as Spain. The role of local entities is fundamental in the development of these policies, considering that the greatest production of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) is generated in cities, which is also where population centres are concentrate...
Book
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This research was carried out by a team of four associate professors from the University of the Basque Country and the Rey Juan Carlos University. The work is mainly based on qualitative methodology. Its object of study is concerned with shared governance for water management in a multilevel context such as the Spanish case. The analysis is basical...
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This chapter analyzes the relations between Autonomous Regions, contemplated within the framework of the IGR system in force in the Spanish Autonomous State. IGR, applying the classic definition of Krane and Wright (1998), encompasses a wide variety of contact patterns; specifically, we are concerned here with those of a cooperative nature. About t...
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The article analyses intergovernmental relations (IGR) between the central State and the Autonomous Communities during the period 2010-2020. More specifically, it studies IGR in the context of the Great Recession, the Catalan independence process and the health management of the COVID-19, episodes understood as crises that pose important challenges...
Conference Paper
The climate and energy policies try to respond to one of the most serious problems we face today, that of climate change induced by human action. These policies involve a wide variety of actors. Among them are local governments, which tend to acquire increasing importance and which have found in the transnational networks of municipalities (TNMs) a...
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The chapter deals with the study of the activity developed by local governments at an international level in the field of climate and energy policies, paying special attention to the context, organization, purposes and performance of the so-called "transnational networks of municipalities". paper version and free ebook version: https://www.libreri...
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The book is the result of the "History Meeting on the Transition in the Canary Islands: from the late-Franco period to the Transition, 1969-1986". Directed by Miguel Angel Cabrera and coordinated by Aarón León in April 2107. Chapter: The autonomic parliament and its impact in governments, help to define the evolution of the institutionalization pro...
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The book is the result of an academic meeting that, on the issue of globalization, brought together representatives of different scientific disciplines, within the framework of the annual seminars that we have been organizing at the Rey Juan Carlos University. Globalization was analyzed from different perspectives that pointed out its impact on the...
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Public policies aimed at water management have an undoubted relevance because they deal with a scarce resource that is basic both for the maintenance of ecosystems and for the development of economic activity and, ultimately, for the subsistence of human communities. Additionally, these policies clearly show the complexity of the political-administ...
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Intergovernmental relations constitute an aspect of the political-administrative reality that is key to understanding the dynamics of public action in multilevel government systems in general and, more specifically, in the case of the Spanish autonomous state. On the other hand, environmental policies are among those that show a clearer and more re...
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Este artículo trata sobre las relaciones intergubernamentales (IGR) en el área de política ambiental en el Estado Autonómico. Se exploran las situaciones de interdependencia entre los actores públicos involucrados en la política y se intenta caracterizar los patrones básicos de IGR presentes en la operación del sistema político. La política medioam...
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You can find the paper at: http://ecpr.eu/Events/PaperDetails.aspx?PaperID=13624&EventID=50

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