Abstract

CUNILL-GRAU, Nuria. Resistencias a la Colaboración Interinstitucional: Aprendizajes para la Implementación de las Nuevas Políticas Sociales. Doc. aportes adm. pública gest. estatal [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.07-32. ISSN 1851-3727.

The new social policies are characterized by their emphasis on the comprehensive approach to highly complex problems, as for example the child development. Therefore, they are based on joint work between different government sectors and, specifically, a high-intensity intersectorality. However, resistance to inter-agency collaboration are one of the key factors to decrease the gaps in implementation. The work identifies and analyzes political resistances and institutional-cultural resistances and its influence on the intensity of the cross-sectoral work, based on a survey of 117 managers and authorities linked to the Chilean intersectoral Social Protection System in six regions. The research demonstrates a high weight of both types of resistance, as well as a clear association between them and some areas of specialty. These findings suggest that professional communities not only affect the perception of resistances to the intersectoriality but can have significant weight in its creation. Furthermore, they contravene the mainstream to adopt exclusively structural and formal approaches that do not consider those factors difficult to change quickly

Keywords : Welfare Policy; Cross Sectoral Relations; Resistances; Chile.

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