Gobernanza y lucha contra la pobreza (Governance and Fight Against Poverty)

Abstract

Spanish Abstract: El presente trabajo trata de analizar las políticas contra la pobreza aplicadas por España en el marco de la estrategia Europa 2020. Estas políticas se han llevado a cabo mediante mecanismos de gobernanza — en concreto, el denominado experimentalismo democrático —, cuya efectividad y legitimidad están en entredicho. Para ello se analizará, de un lado, el Semestre Europeo, que coordina estas políticas a nivel de la UE. Del otro, distintos documentos españoles que se enmarcan en este proceso y que permiten evaluar los niveles de legitimidad democrática de este mecanismo.

English Abstract: This paper attempts to analyse policies against poverty undertaken by Spain within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy. These policies have been applied through mechanisms of governance mechanisms — specifically, the so-called democratic experimentalism — whose effectiveness and legitimacy are at least questionable. To this end, this paper tries to analyse, on one side, the European Semester, which coordinates these policies at an EU level. On the other, various Spanish documents that are part of this process and therefore allow us to assess the levels of democratic effectiveness of this mechanism.

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Keywords: Democratic Experimentalism, Governance, European Semestre, Legitimacy, Poverty