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Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo
2008
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- ¿Qué Estado tras el experimento neoliberal? Mabel Thwaites Rey Administración y Contabilidad State Latin America What are we talking about when we speak of the State beyond the neoliberal experiment in the nineties? After the wave of structural adjustments and pro-market reforms which stigmatized the role of the State, a new cycle has opened in Latin America in which the public sector seems to have a different character, not only in its ideological or valorative way, but also in its specific practices. However, this transformation is still incipient and not homogenous in every national State of the region. Besides, this change does not find yet the theoretical supports to read its real signification and to prop up future policies. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a critic reflection in order to think the reconfiguration of the State in the current regional and worldwide context. On one side, this article reviews critically the main streams that have worked about the State problem and its management in the last decades. On the other side, it is an attempt to recover the most important contributions produced in the last years. However, the politic-academic production about the State, the administration and the public policies must be examined under the light of the new realities that are been configured in the region, based on the presence of numerous actors and social demands, and strong tensions over the political system. This document is based on the idea that in spite of the limits that globalization puts to national States' action, the recent experiences in Latin America (for example, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela) show us that the public sector has much more possibilities of action than the neoliberal speech told us in the nineties. There is no doubt that the capitalist globalization in the last decades constitutes an important change in the way of integration of the world's productive process. This change also impacts on the ways that the State sovereignty is exercised about basics questions like the material reproduction. Notwithstanding, each part is integrated in the world system in a different condition and style. The issue of the specificity of the national State is included in this tension, that involves the different "ways of being" capitalist in the face of the international division of labor. Understanding the structural limit that is determined by the existence of every capitalist State as a domination apparatus within a determined territory, then, is a necessary step, but not enough. This is why is also necessary to advance to more concrete determinations, in time and space, to understand the multiplicity of expressions that particular capitalist national States adopt, that are not irrelevant to the political and social practice. More than focus the debate in terms of loss of sovereignty, or look at global capital as external to the State, it is necessary to underline that national States are not simply affected by "economic trends" or "globalization", but that they are part of this social crisis and that in this scena 2008 artículo científico 1315-2378 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=357533672002 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3575 Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia application/pdf Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia (República Bolivariana de Venezuela) Num.41