Capacidad institucional: Revisión del concepto y ejes de análisis

Abstract

Many studies that evaluate public policy conclude that most of the failures are due to a lack of institutional capacities of state agencies. However, what do we mean by institutional capacity? Which are their different conceptions? And what are the axes for its analysis? This work seeks to contribute to the conceptualization of institutional capacity and it presents a methodology that allows its analysis. One of the conclusions is that institutional capacity has evolved to give answer to new problems and new public management systems however the concept was used arbitrarily and the wide range of views and variables used have undermined effective evaluations.