Abstract

ORDONEZ BARBA, Gerardo. La participación social organizada en la lucha contra la pobreza: la experiencia del Pronasol en tres estados del norte de México. Estud. front [online]. 2003, vol.4, n.8, pp.105-128. ISSN 2395-9134.

The aim of this work is to show, through the analysis of empirical data of three states of the north of Mexico, an approximation to the study of neighbour organizations incorporated or originated by the shelter of the Solidarity National Program (Pronasol) in order to cooperate in the tasks related with the application and operation of projects for collective benefit. Considering the importance this organizations obtained in the strategy of the program and in the social context, different analysts of that time began to doubt about the arguments that justified the creation of the Solidarity Committees, arguing possible bonds with neocorporative control plans or noticing their limitations for overcoming a merely instrumental participation. Independently of their peculiarities, this critics coincided in a general hypothesis: organised participation in the context of the Solidarity Program doesn't represent an effective alternative for a change in the process for a democratic reform of the Mexican State. In the present paper, we pretend to explore some answers to that hypothesis dividing Committees in two levels: as instances of communitary participation and management, and as organisations linked with possible schemes of corporative control.

Keywords : policy; poverty; participation; organization; welfare.

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