The Public Policy Perspectives Magazine began to be published in July 2011 in paper format, as an initiative of the Department of Planning and Public Policy Council (DPPP) of the National University of Lanús, directed at that time by Dr. Ana Farber.

The institutional development achieved by the degree and postgraduate careers nucleated in that Department and the growing public interest in the subject advised to have a periodical publication of high academic level dedicated to the broad problem of public policies, which received immediate and determined support of the Rector of the UNLa, Dr. Ana Jaramillo.

Several factors converged in the institutional decision, in addition to the one just mentioned. The participation of some teachers of DPPP careers in national and international conferences, seminars and conferences in the field of social and human sciences in general, and in particular in the field of political science and State studies, facilitated fruitful dialogue between colleagues and with undergraduate and graduate students regarding the felt need to have an academic publication focused mainly but not exclusively on public policy issues as a specific mode of articulation between the State and society, in a wide variety of plans and dimensions. After the crisis of 2001-2002 and similar or equivalent situations in other countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, the questioning of state dissertation thesis against market initiatives and the predominant actors in it grew throughout the region. The very characteristics of the crises and the strategies proposed to overcome them by new political coalitions put at the center of the public agendas the revaluation of the role of the State from the perspectives of development and social welfare, with more balanced forms of integration to the changing scenarios Regional and global.

In turn, these reflections were framed in a certain theoretical reorientation of the recommendations of some multilateral organizations that in previous times had been decided promoters of the “State-problem” thesis and began to recognize that the State could also be part of the solution . The World Bank annual reports from 1991 were very present in the discussions that paved the way for the creation of the Magazine.

The idea of ​​creating in the UNLa and in particular in its DPPP a periodical academic publication specialized in this subject was presented in a series of informal meetings between colleagues from various national universities that took place during the Fifth Argentine Congress of Public Administration organized by the Association Argentina of Studies of the Public Administration, which met in the city of San Juan in mid-2009, and repeated the following year at the Conference "State and Argentine Public Administration in the Bicentennial" (May 2010) that was framed in the celebrations of the ephemeris. In both cases the reception was positive. The same happened in the First Extraordinary International Congress of Political Science (National University of San Juan / Government of the Province of San Juan, August 2010) and in the II Conference of Research in Political Science organized by the National University of Entre Ríos (Paraná , November 2010).

In all these meetings the existence of an academic discussion space in which various disciplines and approaches intersected, but of which a specialized publication was absent, was evidenced. The Perspectives of Public Policies Magazine assumed as its main objective to contribute to filling that space.

Initially published in print format, since 2012 it has a digital version. From there the magazine deepened its internationalization process, facilitating free access to the international community of State and Public Policy researchers.