IDIHCS   22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Re-scaling of urban governance in Latin America
Autor/es:
GONZÁLEZ, GISELLE
Lugar:
Barcelona
Reunión:
Congreso; XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; 2018
Institución organizadora:
LASA
Resumen:
Globalization and governance models have stimulated changes in public decision systems. In particular, the governance model as a counterpoint to the central state model recognizes the existence of other actors in the policy making. However, do these other actors have the capacity to become local political actors? Governance has been used at first to narrow the links between the public and the private based on a more horizontal and less hierarchical relationship. Currently, governance has become a fundamental element to strengthen management and politics in a multi-player coordination process. In the developed countries it generated changes in its organization, laws and in the elaboration of new agendas with better distribution of territorial power. In Latin America these ideas are used to solve complex social problems but without changes in their institutional designs. Local governments do not have autonomy to participate in the decision-making system and coordination schemes remain centralized in the central power. From a qualitative strategy that integrates data from primary and secondary sources, the work proposes governance expresses a new form of governance that dismantles the traditional hierarchical structure of some institutions, encouraging cooperation and horizontal and networked government. But in Latin America this conception is re-signified. Although there is a turn of the State towards the pursuit of articulated policies, the low quality of institutional instances, which operate as supports for the innovation application, weak distribution of territorial power and disinterested actors in the political arena in which they develop still predominates.