Community Policy Challenges of in Venezuela
This study proposes to analyze the problem of communal councils as actors linked to politics and public management in Venezuela. It begins with the concept of politics as a type of social relationship mediated by dispute and/or the exercise of power, as well as by the material or symbolic resources...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Revista de ciencias sociales (Maracaibo, Venezuela) Venezuela), 2012-10, Vol.18 (4), p.670-683 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This study proposes to analyze the problem of communal councils as actors linked to politics and public management in Venezuela. It begins with the concept of politics as a type of social relationship mediated by dispute and/or the exercise of power, as well as by the material or symbolic resources related to it. Methodologically, the study explores and analyzes aspects such as the valuation or construction that neighbors make about the main problems in their communities, the ways in which they face and/or solve them, the paths of autonomous action they choose for this and the participation mechanisms experienced in the community. The study explores how the polarization that Venezuelan politics has experienced in the last fourteen years has affected communal councils, a phenomenon that, in the authors' opinion, has marked the initial coordinates of the first five years of the communal councils' existence. Conclusions are that the political process opened in 1998 promoted implementation of a democratic project that tried to overcome the deficits of the IVth Republic, formalized in the development of legislation and the experiences of diverse participation, valued and driven by the interests of the political actors that promote them, showing significant limitations for the re-politicization of the communities. Adapted from the source document. |
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ISSN: | 1315-9518 |