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The election of the governors of Mexico City not only brought about a democratizing change, it also produced a questioning of the focused and conditioned social programs characteristic of the neoliberal period; as well as a new orientation in local social policy, based on a citizen rights perspective that has been translated into universalist and / or participatory programs embodied in laws. The complex institutional construction of this new orientation has not been without contradictions; It has had advances and setbacks, but within the framework of a predominant progressive trend. This article breaks down the ideological conceptions of the governments elected in Mexico City between 1997 and 2018, as well as their actual practices and programs.