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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1665-2037</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Política y gobierno]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Polít. gob]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1665-2037</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas A.C., División de Estudios Políticos]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1665-20372006000200393</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La política de las políticas públicas]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Politics of Policies]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Stein]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ernesto]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Tommasi]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Mariano]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo Departamento de Investigación ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de San Andrés Departamento de Economía ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Argentina</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>13</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>393</fpage>
<lpage>416</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1665-20372006000200393&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1665-20372006000200393&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1665-20372006000200393&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Después de más de una década de reformas políticas y económicas en América Latina, se ha vuelto evidente que las buenas ideas y las buenas recetas de políticas públicas no son suficientes para lograr los objetivos del desarrollo. El proceso de diseño, adopción e implementación de buenas políticas públicas es igualmente importante. La elaboración de políticas incluye una variedad de actores &#8210;desde el presidente y los partidos políticos hasta los sindicatos y grupos de empresarios&#8210; que interactúan en diferentes escenarios: el gabinete, el Congreso, las calles. Los jugadores clave, el papel que desempeñan y los incentivos, las características de los escenarios en los que interactúan y la naturaleza de las transacciones en las que se involucran, a pesar de que tienen elementos en común, varían de manera notable en cada país y ayudan a explicar la variedad de experiencias de reforma en la región en los años recientes.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: After more than a decade of political and economic reform in Latin America it has become painfully obvious that good ideas and good policy recipes are not enough to achieve development goals. The policymaking process of designing, adopting and implementing good policies is equally important. Policymaking involves a variety of actors &#8210;from the president and political parties to labor unions and business groups&#8210; interacting in different arenas &#8210;the cabinet, the legislature, the street. The key players, their roles and incentives, the characteristics of the arenas in which the game is played and the nature of the transactions the players engage in, while having common elements, vary considerably from country to country and help explain the variety of reform experiences in the region in recent years.]]></p></abstract>
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