Documento CIDOB América Latina; 19

This research project has the objective of investigating the scope, functioning and institutional performance of the new organisational designs of the public institutions of the countries in Latin America. In particular, it analyses the administrative reforms promoted in the region between 1990 and 2005, which contributed to the emergence of a new State model, called the “Regulatory State” in the literature. The project has the aim of carrying out a comparative study on the functioning of the public organisations and institutions responsible for public policies in the economic and social sectors in which regulatory formulas predominate as a factor of development. The growing use of regulatory measures in many spheres of public policies has made this question a central issue in the dynamics of the political process, the maintaining of national capabilities and the possibilities of economic and social development in the region.

Carlos Ramió Matas, Permanent Lecturer in Political Science and Administration in the Department of Political and Social Sciences and Vice-Rector for Planning and Evaluation at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona; Director of the Latin America Programme of the CIDOB Foundation.

ISSN: 1697-7688 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-8137 (online edition)

91 pp.

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