Public Politics: Are the Contributions to Educational Quality?

(CFT Teodoro Wickel, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile)

Abstract: Public Policies are understood as a guideline, a decisive guideline that defines the way of acting in special cases, it is the public nature of the policies that is given by the participation of the different actors involved in these decisions.

Therefore, they are a set of decisions, principles and norms that guide the action, defining objectives and concrete goals oriented to legitimize and exercise the power and authority that lead to satisfy certain needs of a country, sector, institution, community.

The Public Policies are a guide in the understanding and analysis of what the Public Policies mean, as well as contributing to the understanding of the mechanisms of design and elaboration of the same.

That you have a clear and simple idea of what Public Policies is in a generalized context and the steps that must be carried out to implement them. Given the importance of Public Policies for social transformation, the document explains why and under what circumstances they constitute a decisive factor to promote or inhibit social transformation.

Key words: government, politics, public policies, social needs