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Estudios Políticos
Print version ISSN 0121-5167On-line version ISSN 2462-8433
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.