Territorial actors managing social policy in Argentina

Abstract

We propose to analyze the articulations and tensions between social policy, actors and territory since the execution of the Argentina Trabaja-Programa Ingreso Social con Trabajo during the Alianza Cambiemos (2016-2018). To do this, we observe its management from the material, functional and political dimensions through three actors with different nature, ideological profiles, and technical-administrative capacities. The methodology we use is qualitative and combines the analysis of secondary sources with semi-structured interviews and observations. The main findings revolve around identifying common interests of an individual and collective nature, evidencing feedback between the interest in contributing to the improvement of the daily life of neighbors while empowering themselves as an implementing actor. Likewise, they have the capacity to provide their own imprint to the program, which has allowed us to develop a typology of executing entities. At the same time, different trajectories occur around the accumulation of territorial power of the three managers.