Resumen

FARFAN MENDOZA, Guillermo. The New Historic Institucionalism and Social Policies. Polis [online]. 2007, vol.3, n.1, pp.87-124. ISSN 2594-0686.

The study of social policies have focused on evaluating its social impact and estimating its financial cost, however the making of social policies is primarily a political issue, a matter of decision making in the context of the relationship between agency and structures. Historic Neoinstitutionalism is a theoretical approach capable of explaining policy from the point of view of political science and sociology; our aim in this article is to offer an analytical approach to explain social policies as influenced or restricted by institutions suchs as major socio-economic and political structures, political coalitions, communities of discourse; and institutional arrangements within the State.

Palabras llave : social policies; policy; institution; State.