La implementación de los programas sociales y de empleo: racionalidades y perspectivas de los funcionarios públicos en Argentina

Abstract

This paper investigates the speeches of public civil servants responsible for the implementation of eight social programs on the local neighborhood, Altos de San Lorenzo, located in the city of La Plata, a province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This articles aims to identify the underlying logic and rationale according to the conditions of implementation of each intervention, placing special attention to those programs focused on employment. The conceptual frame includes a typology of social programs, drawn from two main ideas: nature or programmability of the tasks and the interaction that the intervention promotes between program officials and beneficiaries. In addition, taking the following types of rationale into consideration: technical, bureaucratic, political and user-oriented. The objective was to establish, according to a methodological analysis of speech, the degree of rationale to which the officials of each program has, identifying with special attention the perspectives and rationales placed on the selected labor programs. The main findings point to the idea that, even though important variations exist between the rationalities most used by type of program, it is worth highlighting the centrality of rationality political and user-oriented.