Municipal policies and capacities in Gran Buenos Aires: ¿smart governance of the pandemic?

The pandemic caused multiple repercussions on the social, economic and political life of all the countries of the world. Their magnitude valued the role of the States and of public interventions in the face of the emergency. In Argentina, the national government played a leading role, but this shou...

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Autores principales: Rofman, Adriana, Foglia, Carolina
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Investigación y Formación en Administración Pública (IIFAP-FCS-UNC) 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/APyS/article/view/35183
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Sumario:The pandemic caused multiple repercussions on the social, economic and political life of all the countries of the world. Their magnitude valued the role of the States and of public interventions in the face of the emergency. In Argentina, the national government played a leading role, but this should not obscure the attention to the actions carried out by the sub-national levels, especially the municipalities. We will focus on Gran Buenos Aires, a metropolitan area where the virus spread rapidly and where living conditions made it difficult to comply with protection measures. In this context, the work of the municipal governments of the region was a key piece of the machinery of state action against Covid-19. However, as we will show throughout this work, the local initiatives is explained in a framework of multilevel interjurisdictional action and articulation with territorial social organizations, based on knowledge and experiences of the environment, which show open and dynamic capabilities, nodal for smart governance. The analysis presented is based on two surveys, one developed between 2018 and 2019 dedicated to building a panoramic of the Gran Buenos Aires municipalities and the second, deployed between the months of July and November 2020, focusing on local initiatives and transformations in the context of a pandemic.