Public Administration in Latin America
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چکیده
The debate on the autonomy of public administration vis-à-vis the political system in which it operates, is an open discussion where both opposing and complementary points of view have been expounded. Understanding how the concept of modernization has developed is an important aspect of this debate because it helps us understand that public administration responds to the imperatives of the historical evolution of a given society; in other words, it is not an instrument governed by considerations that can be applied to any context or social scenario. The very concept of public administration is closely tied to the concept of state, particularly to the political system of which it is a part. Thus, according to Rafael Bañón, it is an unpredictable concept, one that varies over time, in a “process that accumulates meanings and changes the predominant validity of [those] meanings and paradigms. As a result, the concepts ‘public’ and ‘administration’ differ depending on the social role [assigned] to the state and on the relationship between state and society.”
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