Strategy and steering in governance: The changing fates of the Argentine Planning Council
Based on a detailed study of the return of national‐level planning in Argentina as embodied by COFEPLAN, the national planning council, we develop a conceptual framework to analyse the possibilities and limits of steering in governance. We lean on the theoretical apparatus of evolutionary governance...
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| author | Alves Rolo, Rodrigo Hernán Van Assche, Kristof Duineveld, Martijn |
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| description | Based on a detailed study of the return of national‐level planning in Argentina as embodied by COFEPLAN, the national planning council, we develop a conceptual framework to analyse the possibilities and limits of steering in governance. We lean on the theoretical apparatus of evolutionary governance theory and use the concepts of goal dependency, inter‐dependency, path dependency and material dependency (effects in governance) to analyse the reality effects of strategy (effects of governance). Methodologically, our study relies on archival work and semi‐structured interviews with planning scholars and public officials from different levels of government. We show that, although material and discursive reality effects were abundant in the evolution of Argentine planning policies, dependencies and discontinuities undermined both the central steering ambitions of the government and the innovative potential of the new planning schemes. The dramatic history of the Argentine planning system allows us to grasp the nature of dependencies in a new way. Shocks in general undermine long‐term perspectives and higher‐level planning, but they can also create windows of opportunity. The internal complexity and the persistence of Peronist ideology in Argentina can account for the revivals of national‐level planning in very different ideological contexts, but the recurring shocks, the stubborn difference between rhetoric and reality, the reliance on informality, created a landscape of fragmented governance and often weak institutional capacity. In that land‐
scape, steering through national‐level planning becomes a tall order. |
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| spelling | INTA209912025-01-16T17:17:18Z Strategy and steering in governance: The changing fates of the Argentine Planning Council Alves Rolo, Rodrigo Hernán Van Assche, Kristof Duineveld, Martijn Gobernanza Argentina Planificación Nacional Estrategias Governance National Planning Strategies Consejo Federal de Planificación y Ordenamiento Territorial (COFEPLAN) Goal Dependency Path Dependency Material Dependency Planning Council Based on a detailed study of the return of national‐level planning in Argentina as embodied by COFEPLAN, the national planning council, we develop a conceptual framework to analyse the possibilities and limits of steering in governance. We lean on the theoretical apparatus of evolutionary governance theory and use the concepts of goal dependency, inter‐dependency, path dependency and material dependency (effects in governance) to analyse the reality effects of strategy (effects of governance). Methodologically, our study relies on archival work and semi‐structured interviews with planning scholars and public officials from different levels of government. We show that, although material and discursive reality effects were abundant in the evolution of Argentine planning policies, dependencies and discontinuities undermined both the central steering ambitions of the government and the innovative potential of the new planning schemes. The dramatic history of the Argentine planning system allows us to grasp the nature of dependencies in a new way. Shocks in general undermine long‐term perspectives and higher‐level planning, but they can also create windows of opportunity. The internal complexity and the persistence of Peronist ideology in Argentina can account for the revivals of national‐level planning in very different ideological contexts, but the recurring shocks, the stubborn difference between rhetoric and reality, the reliance on informality, created a landscape of fragmented governance and often weak institutional capacity. In that land‐ scape, steering through national‐level planning becomes a tall order. CIPAF Fil: Alves Rolo, Rodrigo Hernán. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Agricultura Familiar (CIPAF); Argentina Fil: Van Assche, Kristof. University of Alberta. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Canadá Fil: Duineveld, Martijn. Wageningen University. Department of Environmental Sciences; Países Bajos 2025-01-16T16:05:06Z 2025-01-16T16:05:06Z 2021-06-25 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/20991 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4089 2183–2463 https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i2.4089 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Argentina .......... (nation) (World, South America) 7006477 Cogitatio Press Politics and Governance 9 (2) : 415-427. (2021) |
| spellingShingle | Gobernanza Argentina Planificación Nacional Estrategias Governance National Planning Strategies Consejo Federal de Planificación y Ordenamiento Territorial (COFEPLAN) Goal Dependency Path Dependency Material Dependency Planning Council Alves Rolo, Rodrigo Hernán Van Assche, Kristof Duineveld, Martijn Strategy and steering in governance: The changing fates of the Argentine Planning Council |
| title | Strategy and steering in governance: The changing fates of the Argentine Planning Council |
| title_full | Strategy and steering in governance: The changing fates of the Argentine Planning Council |
| title_fullStr | Strategy and steering in governance: The changing fates of the Argentine Planning Council |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategy and steering in governance: The changing fates of the Argentine Planning Council |
| title_short | Strategy and steering in governance: The changing fates of the Argentine Planning Council |
| title_sort | strategy and steering in governance the changing fates of the argentine planning council |
| topic | Gobernanza Argentina Planificación Nacional Estrategias Governance National Planning Strategies Consejo Federal de Planificación y Ordenamiento Territorial (COFEPLAN) Goal Dependency Path Dependency Material Dependency Planning Council |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/20991 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4089 https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i2.4089 |
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