The Prospective or Future Studies and its assessment in public policy

Abstract

The objective of this work is to know the valuation of the Prospective or future studies, as a tool for public policy of two Chilean Regional Development Strategies, from the public and technical officials' perspective, who led the elaboration of the scenarios and the implementation process. Qualitative research showed that the Prospective is perceived, mainly as a theoretical-academic instrument, capable of uniting and legitimizing visions of different actors, but that it fails to deactivate the tension between institutional political management at the local level, and the corresponding normative management from the central level, among other findings.

Authors

• Paola Aceituno O. Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana