Resumen

MAGGIOLO, Isabel  y  PEROZO MAGGIOLO, Javier. Public Policies: the Process of State-Society Agreement. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.39, pp.373-392. ISSN 2477-9423.

This article proposes characterizing public policies as a process of State-Society agreement, by examining their interaction to reach a point of agreement:  the public policies. The approaches of Subirats (1989), Sagasti (1999), Ballart (1992), Repetto (2000), Piñango (2003) and Loaiza (2004), among others, were studied for their theoretic-conceptual elements regarding public policies, actors and the evaluation of policies, State and society. Principle conclusions were that public policies are the result of acts of confrontation/agreement between state and social representatives, who face critical knots, conflicting situations and regulated restrictions, where the State is implicit due to its political nature, while society requires certain social empowerment and effective communication channels to guarantee a healthy, close State-Society relationship to obtain public approval.

Palabras clave : Public policy; State; society; social empowerment.