Administrative Thinking and Social Reality:

Tensions and Contradictions in the Reform and Modernization of the Nicaraguan Public Sector.

Abstract

PRESENTS AN ANALYSIS OF THE NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK GUIDING THE REFORM AND MODERNIZATION PROGRAM OF THE NICARAGUAN PUBLIC SECTOR, WHICH SERVES AS A BASIS TO SUSTAIN THAT IN THIS PROGRAM AN ECONOMICIST AND ADMINISTRATIVE RATIONALITY PREVAILS, WITH A PROFOUND ORIENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, WHOSE THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION IS THE ECONOMIC THINKING OF THE SO-CALLED "WASHINGTON CONSENSUS".