Speech and institutions in the reform of the Uruguayan public administration
Keywords:
Uruguay, Public Administration, ReformsAbstract
In recent decades the crisis and redefinition of the traditional model of public administration has been a major object of study in political science. In general, the theoretical approaches employed have tended to underestimate the role played by political ideas (imaginaries, paradigms and discourses) in reform processes. In this respect, theoretical concepts such as those of hegemony and paradigmatic change, which derive from the schools of discourse analysis and historical institutionalism, can help us to understand the characteristics of the reform process that has been taking place in Uruguay's Central Administration since 1995. The nature and scope of the administrative reform process cannot be properly understood without examining its relationship to the political imaginary of this era. It is along these lines that this artic1e seeks to explore the
reformist discourse and its interaction with the hegemonic political imaginary. At the same time, it analyzes the relationship between the political strategy underpinning the reform process and the politico-institutional "filters" within the state apparatus that work to limit its scope.
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Comparative Politics, pp. 229-249.
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London.
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Un Enfermo Imaginario?, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Montevideo.
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on the lejt, Verso, London.
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Fundación de Cultura Universitaria, Montevideo.
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Inequality in Latin America. Rethinking Participation and Representation, Oxford University
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Ellropeanization or Latinization?, Paper presented at the ECPR General Conferenee 2001,
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Organización Administrativa, Instituto Nacional del Libro, Montevideo. .
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University Press, Princeton.
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Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay (1998): La Reforma Administrativa del Estado,
Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto, Montevideo.
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Simon, H.A. (1976): Administrative Behaviour, The Free Press, New York.
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Political Economy of Policy Reform, HE, Washington D.e.
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Speech and institutions in the reform of the Uruguayan public administration. (2018). Revista Uruguaya De Ciencia Política, 13, 59-93. https://rucp.cienciassociales.edu.uy/index.php/rucp/article/view/351
