Vol. 9 No. 1 (2024)

This issue begins with the article by Johanna Cárdenas Osornio, in which the author embarks on measuring legislative performance and legislative effectiveness in the Mexican State of Nayarit, emphasizing dimensions of analysis such as number of initiatives presented, number of initiatives approved or number of commissions chaired. Subsequently, Benjamin Eduardo Segovia Saavedra analyzes the 2019 protests in Chile from contemporary political theory frameworks that explore the nature, characteristics, and challenges of populism. The author argues that these episodes of collective action can be glimpsed as a “populist moment”. The issue concludes with an article by José Luis Escalona Victoria, in which the author approaches a dimension of the study of bureaucracies from a political anthropology framework: the systems of positions. The text is novel for its intellectual reconstruction of this concept and for moving the analysis of bureaucracies beyond the contexts usually analyzed by political science. The Editorial Board expects that reading these manuscripts will stimulate scientific reflection on the topics addressed and contribute to a better understanding of them.