Strikes, institutional crisis in Latin America and democratic governance

Abstract

The crisis of the first decades of this millennium in Latin America entails the need for reflection for institutional strengthening that allows the role of the State to be legitimized before civil society. That is why citizen participation in the identification of public issues, design and implementation of public policies, monitoring and evaluation of it, becomes relevant in closing the gaps between society and the State. Democratic governance is the result of the aforementioned link between society and the State. This article of reflection is the result of the research carried out in the research project: “Parallel Payrolls in the Government of Boyacá for the period 2005-2015” advanced at the Universidad de Boyaca and in the Research carried out in the development of the Doctorate in Philosophy with emphasis in Political Science of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, in Mexico.