Las relaciones intergubernamentales como problema y el territorio como argumento: políticas de salud en Argentina (2008/2014)

Abstract

Although less vigorous than in other policy areas, the health sector has witnessed various advances in the recovery of the State's role in the last decade. With different organizational designs, sectoral policy devices have woven relationships within the constraints imposed by an unequal and highly fragmented matrix, even within the state sub sector itself, which resulted from federalism and decentralization. Thus, individual arrangements were constructed within the framework of the restrictions imposed by the intergovernmental relations that characterize the health sector in Argentina. The paper analyzes a set of initiatives that, appealing to the territorial approach, sought to contrast with the sectoral logic that animates the ministerial actions. The cases analyzed show different notions of territory and also different ways of organizing political relations between levels of government.