Public policies ... complex process, reflecting the power relations of the political system

Abstract

Public policy is a series of continual actions carried out by a public authority, oriented toward the management of a socially problematic situation that has arrived at the public agenda (basic requirement for being the object of a policy) for the pressure of certain sectors and interest groups that have introduced it among action responses to the authorities and the acting administration. From this definition in this article one reflects upon the complexity of public policies, clarifying how these come about and play a role in the relations of power that impose themselves in the process of decision making, fundamental in a definition of policy.