Political Elite and Redefinition of Social Policy:

from Making the Future to Empowering Work

Abstract

The arrival of the Frente de Todos to the national executive in December 2019 meant the recentralization, a priori, of the State as the engine of social and economic change, leaving aside the logics of private management promoted by the previous administration of the Alianza Cambiemos (2015- 2019). This research work analyzes and compares in depth the public policy "Make the Future", applied by both administrations, as well as the political elite in charge of its implementation to determine what kind of relationship exists between preferences and origins of the official and the changes experienced by the program during the 2016-2020 period. Adopting as the main axis the professional and academic profile of the civil servants, it is concluded that, despite having so different civil servants, with opposing experiences, origins, and ideologies, as well as heterogeneous academic trajectories and backgrounds, there is a continuity and consensus between both administrations about the scope and limits of social policy.