In research about state and public administration, it is common to perform an analysis of its structure, function, form and type. However, on some occasions, these general categories do not reveal the distribution of attributions or real power in their different territorial levels. This report, through a historical-institutional review of the last 50 years in South American countries, proposes the existence of characteristic power structures that remain in time with gradual changes that maintains the essence of its historical origin and, others that are formed as a result of disruptive changes that modify the dominant paradigms. The existence of these structures shows three characteristic types that are called compound, integrated and simple.
Resumen Es común en las investigaciones sobre el Estado y la administración pública realizar un análisis de su estructura, función, forma y tipo. Sin embargo, en algunas oportunidades estas categorías generales no revelan la distribución de potestades o poder real ejercido en los distintos niveles territoriales. En este trabajo se propone, a través de una revisión histórico-institucional de los últimos 50 años en países de América del Sur, verificar la existencia de estructuras de poder características que permanecen en el tiempo con cambios graduales que mantienen la esencia de su origen histórico y otras que se forman producto de cambios disruptivos que modifican los paradigmas dominantes. La existencia de estas estructuras arroja tres tipos característicos que, denominamos compuesto, integrado y simple.
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