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Since the 1990s, Argentina has witnessed significant transformations in the relationship between the State and society, prompting a reevaluation of the roles and capacities of local governments to address large-scale issues extending beyond territorial boundaries due to urban expansion. This "de facto" redefinition of government roles occurs within a context of political and administrative fragmentation, demanding an expansion of agendas to include topics such as local development, territorial planning, environmental conservation, and innovation policies, among others, in new formats and in a global context. Consequently, inter-municipal cooperation has emerged as a response to manage newly delegated competencies, employing associative experiences to address challenges in urban management and conurbation. The main objective of this article is to recapitulate and analyze the primary associative experiences of inter-municipalism in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, from a planning perspective. Methodologically, the study utilizes primary sources, including semi-structured interviews with academic specialists and municipal officials engaged in these institutional arrangements, alongside an analysis of secondary sources and documentary evidence. The findings highlight the ongoing discussions, potentialities, and weaknesses to present a comprehensive overview of the current situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article seeks to review, from a gender perspective, the findings of an exploratory qualitative analysis on the capacity of institutional participation mechanisms to recreate (or not) more democratic political cultures. To do this, it reconstructs a) the sense and meanings given to participation, (b) the educational impact they have on the participants, and (c) the subject's perception on the transformative capacity of participation. The field work was carried out based on direct observation of different experiences and semi-structured interviews with citizens of seven municipalities in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (Argentina). In the first section, the treatment and contributions of political science, anthropology and sociology to the concept of political culture are revisited, proposing a definition it, secondly, the theoretical framework is broadened by incorporating the contributions of gender studies to the research; thirdly, the empirical data is analyzed under this reformulation; and finally, the conclusions highlight the aspects of the analysis that deserve further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Political culture is a widely used concept in political science from the 60's to the present. The classic definition inaugurated by Almond and Verba at the end of that decade has dominated the discipline, as well as their political uses in empirical political analysis regarding values, attitudes and knowledge. Within this framework, quantitative studies have prevailed. As for anthropology, despite its attention to the concept of culture and the existence of a subdiscipline called political anthropology, only in recent decades the concept has started to be discussed, proposing new lines of research for the study of the construction of meaning about politics and generally using qualitative approaches. The aim of this article is to review the theoretical concept of political culture in an effort to emphasize its structural principles to integrate new contributions coming from both disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the 1980s, Latin America's local governments have been experiencing a genuine political transformation. A part of this transformation implies the implementation of policies and institutions for citizen participation. Through a comparative analysis of four cases -Buenos Aires, Bogota, Caracas and Montevideo- this article explores how variables in the political context, such as citizen demand for participation, the existence of political will, the oppositional or allied relation between local and central governments, and the fragmentation and polarization of the local party system condition the origin and the reach of participatory designs present in the cities mentioned. To that end, the author proposes a typology of Institutional Citizen Participation -ICP- and some exploratory hypotheses to explain their emergence; institutions present in the case studies are systematized and connections are established between the design of the ICP and the dimensions of the political contexts analyzed; finally, conclusions are drawn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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