Paúl CisnerosInstituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales | IAEN · Gobierno y Administración Pública
Paúl Cisneros
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Introduction
My current research deals with policymaking for sustainability transitions in Latin American countries. I am particularly interested in intergovernmental cooperation and collaborative management for the implementation of the SDGs in urban settings, and policies related to mining, water management, and air quality.
Additional affiliations
January 2016 - April 2016
September 2014 - September 2016
January 2013 - July 2014
Education
October 2006 - January 2011
October 2004 - October 2006
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Publications (34)
En este libro investigamos las condiciones que permitieron la emergencia de organizaciones de la sociedad civil críticas de la política minera en el Ecuador a finales de la década de 1990, y los efectos que del activismo sobre la política vigente reformada entre 2007 y 2009. Presentamos un marco teórico que denominamos "análisis de la construcción...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to water and sanitation mandate the implementation of collaborative approaches to water governance to secure water for all by 2030. The implementation of collaborative governance requires the adoption of supportive regulations, resources, and the development of capable public sector institutions. In...
Coordination between multiple centers for decision-making and types of actors, across scales and sectors, is critical to improving the effectiveness of the implementation of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This challenge is particularly crucial for metropolitan arrangements in developing countries where State capacity is w...
With Supreme and Constitutional courts or tribunals playing an increasingly significant role in shaping extractive policies in Latin America, scholars should turn their attention to the impacts of judicial decisions on policy processes. This phenomenon is of considerable interest to scholars of policy integration, as constitutional interpretations...
The importance of collaborative approaches to governing social-ecological systems (SES) towards more transformative outcomes is now widely acknowledged. Theoretical and methodological frameworks to enable such collaborations are being developed across a range of disciplines. Transdisciplinary approaches are emerging as a key enabler of potentially...
In this chapter, we review some of the lessons learned from the literature on decentralization in South America for thinking about the localization of Sustainable Development Goals. In the current discussions on the effective implementation of Agenda 2030, one element that does not receive sufficient attention is the role of relations between publi...
Objective: ?e aim of the article is to identify the types of innovations produced by public sector organizations in Ecuador duringthe first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.Theoretical framework: ?e paper builds on systematic reviews of publications on public sector innovation to identify types ofinnovations, antecedents of organizations, both at th...
The argument put forward in this chapter is that economic dependence on the oil sector can undermine the conditions necessary for the development of the metal mining sector. Specifically, the selection of appropriate policy instruments to deal with the specific needs of the mining sector. While existing theories only consider positive or reinforcin...
Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith introduced the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in the late 1980s to refine the theoretical and methodological tools available for the study of the policy process. Since the late 1990s, the use of the framework has grown in use outside the United States and it is now applied to study a broad range of policy ar...
en Scholars of mining policies are beginning to understand how the most recent boom in commodity prices (2000–2014) influenced the institutional development of the mining sector in Latin America. We contribute to this literature by studying the design, dynamics, and outcomes of interorganizational coordination in Colombia and Ecuador. Our findings...
The effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to forests (SDG15) and water resources (SDG6) have significant implications for achieving quality of life for people in urban and rural areas. We carried out a study in the rural parishes of the Metropolitan District of Quito (MDQ), Ecuador. The objective of the study was...
en Institutions are important to enhance the contribution of mining industries not only to economic growth, but also to environmental justice and equality. In this paper, we study the processes by which four Latin American countries modified their existing institutions to manage the effects or large‐scale mining in their territories. We focus on th...
This project aims at identifying pockets of innovation across the Ecuadorean public sector, and to characterize the processes leading to some of those innovations. We are gathering data using an online survey questionnaire sent to public servants across all branches of government and scales of government, including public utilities and public unive...
This article investigates the influence of populism in a process of policy change. The case of the mining law approved by the government of Rafael Correa between 2007 and 2010 is studied using the Advocacy Coalition Framework and discourse network analysis to study the structure of the narratives used by actors during the process of reform. The art...
Algunas áreas metropolitanas han sido diseñadas con el fin de permitir la interacción entre los diferentes niveles de gobierno y otros actores no estatales, en aras de abordar los problemas críticos de sus jurisdicciones. Este es el caso del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ), en el cual confluyen el nivel nacional de gobierno con el provincial,...
En esta ocasión Paúl Cisneros y Andrea Carrión, docentes del Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, entrevistan a Eduardo Silva. La entrevista se realizó durante el Congreso de la Latin American Studies Association en Lima, Perú, 2017. Durante el evento, Eduardo Silva lideró un panel sobre las industrias extractivas, la protesta y su impacto en la...
En la siguiente entrevista, Katrhyn Hochstetler realiza un balance sobre los avances que han existido en el diseño e implementación de políticas ambientales en la región, así como el rol que han tenido los movimientos sociales y la acción colectiva en general en politizar los temas ambientales. Sobre este aspecto señala que en la mayoría de países...
El capítulo estudia cómo una coalición de políticas públicas que opera en el nivel de una región, utiliza varios subsistemas de política pública para avanzar su agenda. Se utiliza el ACF como sustento teórico de la investigación, avanzando las propuestas de Weible y otros, sobre los tipos de subsistemas y las relaciones intersubsistémicas. Se verif...
Este libro presenta un análisis de la emergencia e influencia que han logrado las sociedades civiles de países seleccionados de América Latina en la política minera. Cada capítulo estudia la adopción de la política minera neoliberal desde la década de 1980, la forma en la que la sociedad civil se organiza para politizar los efectos de la misma y la...
This paper deals with policy change in the mining sector in Ecuador from the Advocacy Coalition Framework perspective. Using newspaper reports we elicited a discourse network to see how policy actors handled the overlapping issues of rent capturing, and social and environmental justice concerns during the reform. Our reconstruction of the reform pr...
This book discusses the power struggles between the different branches of government in Ecuador which resulted in a protracted political crisis that started a new period in the political history of the country in in 2006 with the election of Rafael Correa. Chapters analyze interactions between political parties in the legislative, the executive and...
Este documento discute el potencial que tienen las nuevas empresas públicas de agua potable y alcantarillado para construir una nueva gobernanza del agua en áreas urbanas del Ecuador. Tradicionalmente las empresas públicas en el país se han manejado sin cobrar tarifas reales, que han generado dependencia de transferencias del Estado central y poca...
El Taller sobre Descentralización de la Gestión Ambiental en los Proyectos Apoyados por la Fundación MacArthur en América Latina y el Caribe fue un espacio de discusión en el que, durante una semana y con base en 13 expe- riencias concretas de apoyo a la conservación, se discutió sobre las relaciones entre ésta y los procesos de descentralización y...
En este documento se discute la producción de conflictos por el manejo de un territorio en el Parque Nacional Yasuní como consecuencia del manejo del área protegida bajo una política de desregulación de la gestión ambiental durante la década de 1990. Mostramos las relaciones entre los actores desregulados y cómo éstas han limitado las posibilidades...
Questions
Questions (4)
Hi All,
Can someone recommend studies about the investment on the environment (conservation, restoration, etc.) made by subnational governments in developing countries? My paper explores the factors that explain why these investments exist in the first place and why the change overtime. I am working with data from Ecuador, and I am mainly interested in cases from Latin America. I will surely appreciate your thoughts on this.
I am after a book or paper that lays out a robust methodological discussion about studying change in an epistemic community and the impacts on policy. I am interested on communities and policies at all levels of governance and in any policy arena.
I am considering doing discourse analysis of presidential speeches as part of a larger research project. I need a transcription from audio files to code the text in Discourse Network Analyzer for later Social Network Analysis.
Which software could do the transcription as accurately as possible? I am a Mac user by the way. Has anyone experimented oTranscribe?
I am starting a research project on the interaction between policy subsystems such as water, mining and forest in Latin America. Much has been said from normative perspectives on how policy actors should consider the interactions between policy subsystems when design and implement policies. Nevertheless, no theoretical framework that I know of tackles this issue from an analytical perspective, perhaps with the exception of the Advocacy Coalition Framework?
Projects
Projects (5)
This project aims at understanding the factors that contributed to or constrained institutional development in the Ecuadorean mining sector since the major policy changes of 2008.
El objetivo del proyecto es analizar la implementación de una serie de ODS de manera comparada en varios países de América Latina. Nos interesa sobre todo determinar los factores que facilitan la coordinación y colaboración interinstitucional relacionadas al manejo del agua, la conservación de la biodiversidad, la producción de alimentos y la calidad del aire, así como los resultados de estas intervenciones públicas.
