IDIHCS   22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Between History and Passion: The Legitimacy of Social Clubs in the Province of Buenos Aires (2001?2007)
Autor/es:
AGUSTÍN ELÍAS CASAGRANDE
Revista:
Politics and Governance
Editorial:
Cogitatio
Referencias:
Lugar: Lisboa; Año: 2017 vol. 5 p. 34 - 41
ISSN:
2183?2463
Resumen:
In the last few decades the concept of self-regulation accompanied the process of dismantling the welfare state. In thiscontext, in central countries?Europe and North America?the importance given to private regulations versus public actionincreased, thus requiring new mechanisms of legitimacy. To this end, appeals to the principles of economy and technicalefficiency to legitimate private regulations have been made by several researchers. However, these principles acquired anegative view in Argentina because they were used to use to legitimate processes that led to various crises, especially takinginto consideration the neo-liberal experience of the 1990s. Against this historical background, this paper seeks to showa particular case of legitimizing the self-regulation of non-state organizations (social clubs) by using classic topoi, which hadbeen historically used to legitimize state action. In order to do so, this text focuses on the analysis of ?Luna de Avellaneda?Act of 2007, by which the government of Buenos Aires sought to legitimize the self-regulation of clubs appealing to theclassical values of democracy, participation, and solidarity. For this, the historical experience of the Argentinean politicalcommunity will be observed from the perspective of the history of these clubs, thus recovering the social function theyplayed in the diverse political and economic crises.