Public Policies and Development
Flacso Argentina
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Campus location
Balvanera, Argentina
Languages
Spanish
Study format
On-Campus
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Earliest start date
Feb 2024
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Introduction
The Master's Degree in Public Policies and Development arises within the framework of the State and Public Policies Areaas a result of its trajectory as a FLACSO-Argentina Headquarters Program and particularly of the accumulated experience in teaching, research, training of human resources, advice and transfer to public sector and civil society organizations. It is part of the analysis of the profound economic, political, social and cultural transformations that have occurred in recent decades both in our country, as well as in Latin America and the world, which necessarily implied changes in the accumulation process, in the international insertion, in the development model, in their societies, in the State and therefore in the profile and orientation of their public policies.
At the beginning of the 21st century, and in the framework of the crisis of the Washington Consensus, new and progressive development models were being configured in Latin America that have had, as a common axis, an active role of the State in terms of inclusion and extension of rights. They were also characterized by orienting the accumulation process towards the productive and by seeking to expand the margins of political autonomy through new strategies of regional integration and international insertion.
From the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, however, these transformations that occurred in most of the countries of South America were interrupted by impeachment , "soft coups" and lawfare.Within the framework of the process, we have characterized from the State and Public Policies Area as “late neoliberalism” (García Delgado and Gradín, 2017; García Delgado, Ruiz del Ferrier and de Anchorena, 2018). This process finds demonstrations and mobilizations of political parties and social movements in rejection of the erosion of democracy, the loss of collective rights, the deterioration of the quality of life and the deepening of inequality in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Brazil, among others. It is also expressed in the orientations taken by popular and progressive governments in Argentina (García Delgado and Ruiz del Ferrier, 2019), Mexico and Bolivia, as well as in the process of reform of the constitution in Chile and the protests that are carried out. carried out in the various countries of the region.
Finally, the unforeseen appearance of COVID-19 worldwide and the uncertainty that it generates in the economic, social and health sphere put into question the capacity of the neoliberal model and of the market as the main social organizer to respond to these demands (García Delgado, 2020). Likewise, it revalues the role of the State and public policies in the search for a new development model, the promotion of science and technology, the production of well-being and the reduction of inequality. It also gives rise to new debates on the current model of capitalism, democracy and globalization for the achievement of more inclusive, supportive, just and egalitarian societies.