About the Journal

Focus and Scope

From the focus of the journal's name, the main issues relate to government and public administration. Within this framework, it addresses the set of institutions and organizations that face complex realities. Decision-making does not refer to simplicity, but rather attempts to fulfill a task of enormous importance: to give order and to channel the uncertainty of a public space in which there are winners and losers in the treatment of public problems. The decisions to be made are constantly raising "institutional crossroad (Encrucijada)".

ENCRUCIJADA expresses this complex range of interests of Mexican and international public administration providing social sciences students with elements of understanding, criticism and creativity, and addressing social problems and their solutions in a constant way

Peer Review Process

All articles to be published must be submitted to the opinion of experts in each subject, according to the criteria established in the article evaluation certificate.

Arbitration system uses both internal (UNAM) and external evaluators to the entity or institution that publishes the magazine (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -UAM-, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas -CIDE-, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México -UAEM-, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales -FLACSO-, El Colegio de Sonora, Universidad Panamericana -UP-, Universidad del Caribe en Cancún Quintana Roo).

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle to make research available, promoting a global knowledge sharing.

Editorial Policies

The editorial policy that follows Encrucijada Journal is composed of the following elements:
  • It promotes the publication of research products developed by the community of specialists, academics, public officials and students of higher level, who wish to make contributions to the public administration discipline.
  • Articles helping to understand public administration reality closer, in order to influence it.
  • Articles that constitute a reference in the task and decision making permanently faced by public administration.
  • Articles that provide social sciences students elements of understanding, criticism and creativity to define, redefine and address governmental and political-administrative issues.
  • Papers that contain high methodological standards, analytical and bibliographic support are welcome.
  • Articles promoting theoretical and methodological analysis of public and organizations issues, establishing creative and solid proposals with a scientific basis
  • All articles to be published must be submitted to the expert’s opinion in each subject, according to criteria established.
  • The articles reflect the plurality of ideas that exist around novel and classic subjects of public administration discipline.

Journal History

The concern to start a project is always present in the mentality and idiosyncrasy of those people attentive to the events, worried about their repercussions and willing to collaborate with their proposals to construct ways of solution.

With the previous idea, the first issue of "Encrucijada", Electronic Journal of the Center for Public Administration Studies, was presented in April 2009.

This is a quarterly publication that aims to place in the center of the debate the topics that most interest the discipline.

The publication of the journal is the result of a long-standing concern to have a permanent publication from the Center for Studies, which will allow closer links between theoretical analysis and empirical referents through serious and rigorous research.

Thus, “Encrucijada” presents studies that reflect part of the published public reality, as well as the conceptual approach that serves to understand their processes, both internal and external.