REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales (Jun 2009)
El rol de las relaciones interpersonales en el proceso de elaboración y puesta en marcha de la política de descentralización en Chile.
Abstract
This article deals with the different stages of production and implementation of the decentralization policy in Chile. Three phases or sequences were established: the decade that goes between 1960 and 1970, in which the epistemic community will be identified to the origin of the policy; then, the decade 1980-1990 in which will be analyzed how the community manages to consolidate relations and how it manages to become emancipated from the original organizations and, finally, in the third period that goes between 1990 and 1993, it will be studied how the community joined to the new democratic structures in order to intervene in the project of law of decentralization in Chile.This method of sequences allows to extend the focus of analysis in order to observe not just the actors who integrate the policy network in its beginnings but also it allows to depict the evolution of the network through the integration of new actors across the time and how these new members could have influenced the course that certain events have taken.