A recent history of public employment of Cambiemos Administration in the province of Buenos Aires (2015-2018). A study based from a normative, discursive and operative perspective

Abstract

In this article it’s analyzed the provincial public employment policies from the assumption of the government of Cambiemos in the Province of Buenos Aires to date. The Maria Eugenia Vidal government not only closed a cycle of uninterrupted hegemony of the Justicialist Party in the Province of Buenos Aires since 1987, but has also questioned various agreements and continuities within the provincial territory. Within the reform of the Buenosairean State policies, the public employment policies have appeared like a central axis for that transformation. In the absence of legislative majorities, we will study, on the one hand, how the discursive construction of a problematic state of affairs appears as a fundamental tool for these reforms and on the other hand through which normative and operative aspects (not always direct) are modified provincial public employment policies. Faced with the discursive State overdimensioning, we will identify employment policies as clear examples of "downsizing" of the stable plant and relative reduction of salaries against inflation, which explains, in turn, the strong tensions that these modifications have.