Deficiencias estructurales de los procesos sociales de participación para la inciden - cia en política pública. Análisis a partir del contexto municipal de Cúcuta

Abstract

The social processes of participation have and should have as purpose in their relationship with the State influence the governmental political agenda. This relationship questions the form and impact reached by the participation initiatives regarding the influence in public policy. The attainment of such influence (effect) is the result of social mobilization and expresses in such a way an adequate exercise of citizenship (exercise of rights) or active citizenship. Given the limited organizational capacity of the social processes of participation and the inexistent institutional articulation and attitudinal problems of the management of the public (which is not necessarily oriented towards the management of the public problem from the postulates of public policies), a series of structural difficulties that promote this phenomenon and affect the capacity of social mobilization are generated. In the case of the municipal context of Cucuta following the perceptions