A teorico-analitica array for policy studies: the case of the education and training of political cadres in Argentina

Abstract

This paper describes the methodological process by which an analytical matrix for the study of political rank and file in democracy training policies was built, implemented by the Argentine State. The study covers the successive periods of Government 1994-2011, through which it seeks to identify and analyze what have been State policies formulated and implemented from the sanction of article 38 of the Constitution, which recognizes the political parties as central institutions of the democratic system. The Matrix allowed to collect and systematize the existing documentation and analyze and interpret the process of formulation and implementation of these policies. The study concludes that in the case of Argentina repeated successive confusion between the roles and needs of the State with those of Government, that has prevented the stabilisation of a model of education and political training as prescribed by the constitutional mandate.