Strategy and Steering in Governance: The Changing Fates of the Argentine Planning Council

Based on a detailed study of the return national-level planning in Argentina as embodied by COFEPLAN, national council, we develop conceptual framework to analyse possibilities and limits steering governance. We lean theoretical apparatus evolutionary governance theory use concepts goal dependency, interdependency, path dependency material (effects governance) reality effects strategy governance). Methodologically, our relies archival work semi-structured interviews with scholars public officials from different levels government. show that, although discursive were abundant evolution Argentine policies, dependencies discontinuities undermined both central ambitions government innovative potential new schemes. The dramatic history system allows us grasp nature way. Shocks general undermine long-term perspectives higher-level planning, but they can also create windows opportunity. internal complexity persistence Peronist ideology account for revivals very ideological contexts, recurring shocks, stubborn difference between rhetoric reality, reliance informality, created landscape fragmented often weak institutional capacity. In that landscape, through becomes tall order.