Transversality of Public Administration, New Concept to Locate Dependencies and Atypical Entities of the Mexican Electricity Sector

Abstract

As of the energy reform of 2013, the electricity sector in Mexico acquired a new physiognomy. This reform restructured the participation of the State and individuals, in its normative, technical, economic and social framework, with a tendency to make its processes more efficient and safe, create markets, generate wealth and improve consumer prices. It was followed by a legislative vortex to adapt the dependencies and entities of the State to the new reality, because both the constitutional reform and its secondary laws created new institutions and reconfigured the old ones, without stopping to verify if their nature coincided with the organization of the public administration, regardless of what the national doctrine said about it.             This research is positioned at a descriptive level of documentary type. When addressing the legal line, the constitutional scaffolding that governs the public administration and its organization legally classified as centralized and parastatal was found. Taking up concepts of jurists that laid the foundations for the current readings, the nature of the dependencies or entities was analyzed to notice their similarities and discrepancies, proximity and differences; to try to locate them according to those structures. In that line, two institutions stand out that did not coincide in all of their terms with the classification, since they cover characteristics of several categories, so it was considered inappropriate to continue placing them in traditional concepts.             Taking this into account, the search for a new category within the classification of the public administration organization that included the new reality was undertaken. And it was concluded that through the transversal public administration some of the atypical institutions of the Mexican electricity sector fit.