Foundations of public management in the Venezuelan regional governments

Abstract

The transformations that have arisen since the end of the 90s of the last century and the beginning of the new millennium in Venezuela, generated changes in the way of managing public affairs, which have distanced themselves from the institutionality of democratic systems to promote the desired common welfare and satisfaction of needs. The purpose of the informative article is to describe the foundations of public management in Venezuelan regional governments. A qualitative approach was used, based on a systematic review of the literature of authors such as Sánchez (2002); Bonnefoy (2005) and García (2007). Public management in regional governments have challenges ahead beyond the progress made in citizen participation, ranging from regenerating the institutional fabric to enforce the decentralized federal system that has been weakened, forming government teams of suitable professional profiles to exercise each public function; reinstitutionalize the control and oversight bodies to combat the phenomenon of corruption that appropriates the resources of the public treasury and move towards a process of digital organizational transformation to become intelligent organizations, all in favor of improving the living conditions and common welfare of citizens as a partner in public policies