Más allá de la pandemia. Luchas y Debates en torno al Estado y la Administración Pública.

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the consequences of the pandemic on the vision that different schools have on state management models.
Although in recent years the State has occupied a relevant space in the reflection of Social Sciences in general and Political Science in
particular, the debate has tended to focus on the political dimension, while the scope of State action, With some honorable exceptions, it has not been considered with the same intensity.
This is particularly relevant at the present time, when the global COVID 19 pandemic has revolutionized the practices of the Public Sector,
generating transformations and rearrangements whose consequences are still difficult to discern.
Aimed, then, to make a description of the different perspectives with which state management is envisaged in the post-pandemic, we divide this
text into five chapters.
In the first one, we succinctly address the pandemic, which, we consider, should be understood as a constitutive event that will have
an impact on the future of the global political order.
In a second moment we deploy our conceptual base: what are the theoretical keys that guide this writing.
In the third part we deepen the idea according to which States have acquired a new social role but whose meanings are crossed by
different theoretical interpretations and, fundamentally, different political horizons.
In the fourth section we will describe the five political speeches that, according to our analysis, have been consolidated as ways of seeing
the state in the face of the pandemic.
In the fifth and final section, we review the different management approaches derived from the five discourses that we cited in the
previous chapter.
Finally, we close the article with a few brief words as a conclusion.