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Del "buen vecino" al "intendente emprendedor": el rol de los Intendentes departamentales en la reforma del Estado

1994; Universidad de la República; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

1688-499X

Ma Elena Laurnaga, Aldo U. Guerrini,

Finance, Taxation, and Governance

The visibility, transcendence and political influence of the of the interior places them in the current national political scenario leading modernization processes; both in terms of government procedures and the functions and content of local policies. The novelty of its policies and styles of government coexists with strongly personalized political leadership and centralized in the figure of the Intendant. The article argues that these changes in the way of doing politics and in the functions of departmental executives are part of a state reform process, often silent and underlying, in which the new role of the intendants can be understood as a form of reform.