La legitimidad en el discurso de políticas públicas

Abstract

to treat legitimacy in public policies discourse, we assume that all policyanalysis refers us to a theory of State and the practice of its power. We have chosen to carry up four sections structuring the text: the departure point is a concise revision of the conceptual presence of legitimacy in some currents of social sciences that are, without question, dialoguing with the discipline of Public Policies Analysis (PPA). Right afterward we introduce the institutional profile of public policies as a vital dimension, understanding them further than mere actions but as a social capital and institutional agent of change in which confidence and government actions legitimacy is built. Following this premise we will display as specific as possible the bond between legitimacy and policies, emphasizing on intentionality and causality this policies bear, so we can get closer to the reached degree of legitimacy. After that, and revisiting a little bit of PPA history, we present the evolution that this discipline discourse has had into legitimacy understanding, always determined to political or technocratic emphasis of the currents of the discipline itself. Naturally, we finish with a summary of the outstanding key aspects that we expect will be perceived trough the reading of the text.