Strengthening public institutions? A look at a new role for the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP) of Guatemala.

Abstract

The following notes review the institutional history of the public management policies in Guatemala from the last two decades of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century. It addresses the dynamics of the development paradigm shift of the eighties as the synchronous marker that places the first years of INAP in the context of the modernization of the State of Guatemala. This essay does not seek to critically answer the questions it raises; nor does it seek to become an administrative, political, and strategic diagnosis of INAP; however, seek to find those reasons capable of constructing the reasons for a future Institutional Agenda attached to the original frameworks of its creation.