Abstract

BOTTO, Mercedes. Regional integration and sub-national actors: Mercosur's case. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2013, n.25, pp.83-106. ISSN 1853-984X.

The decision of national governments to integrate and break down boundaries generates changes in subnational governments and it's a window of opportunity for them to increase their international management autonomy vis a vis the Central States. However, as shown by this article, the ability to turn this challenge into an opportunity or a problem will depend on the type and scope of integration processes on the one hand, and the geographic location and the production profile of each province , on the other. The article identifies two types of incentives: the direct and formal, such as participation channels and resources that provide EU governments subnational actors, and indirect incentives and informal, that in contrast to the first, from the action of markets and states. Mercosur is a hybrid case in this regard: while we are facing an increasingly open process space and resources at the national level logic prevailing dynamics and distribution remains in the hands of national bureaucracies and discourages collective action horizontal and crime, which ultimately is still powered by the markets and reduced major advantages compared those provinces.

Keywords : Sub-national integration; Mercosur.

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