Abstract

CANO BLANDON, Luisa Fernanda. Citizen Participation in Anti-Corruption Public Policies: Responding Governance Logic. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2008, n.33, pp.147-177. ISSN 0121-5167.

In the  past  fifteen years  has  been  growing  concern  about  corruption  and, especially,  to find ways that allow reduce  it. In Latin America, corruption  has been considered a major obstacle  to economic development, an impediment to poverty eradication and the main reason  for the loss of governmental legitimacy, therefore, a threat to democracy. Within public policies to control corruption  that have arisen in the region, citizen participation has become  an essential element that, generally, is into a logic of public action that in recent years assumed  the name of governance, referred  to the need  to understand the government  as a process  rather  than  as an individual  manager,  hence  it brings  multiplicity  of actors  and  decision-making centers,  The text show possible  ways of citizen participation in the public  policies to combat  corruption  under  two approaches: the New Public Management and the New Democratic  Governance.

Keywords : Public Policy; Governability; Governance; Corruption; Citizen Participation.

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