NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY COUNCILS IN THE FACE OF PRESIDENTIAL ALTERNATION

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to answer the following question: how are national councils impacted by political change, more specifically by presidential change? First, a dialogue is established with the literature of historical neoinstitutionalism to understand how political and institutional changes and continuities are characterized. We then look at what the literature mobilizes as explanatory variables for change. We argue that presidential alternation can constitute a political change and then analyze how councils can reflect presidential alternation. The preliminary diagnosis is that the impact of party and presidential changes on councils has not been sufficiently explored. For this reason, we chose to return to the theoretical bases that influence the literature that addresses the deinstitutionalization and resilience of national councils, in order to understand which explanatory factors are mobilized with regard to the recent changes that have affected participation at the national level. In this sense, we intend to move forward in analyzing the factors that enable councils to be resilient in periods of change.