Abstract

At the international level, Chile appears as a model in design, solidity, and effectiveness of results in public policies (Aninat et al. 2006); however, an internal and local analysis reveals a discrepancy between compliance with the design (supported by indicators) and actions declared by local executers. The connection between them throughout the entire structure of the policy (design, dissemination, implementation, and evaluation) becomes artificial (Jiménez 2019; Zamora 2015). To look at public policies in a process perspective is to understand that it operates at different levels, from the definition of the public problem to the moment in which the effects of it are verified (Olavarría-Gambi 2007). Thus, its analysis is oriented to answer how the implementation of the policy responds (or not) to the intention of its design (Pressman and Wildavsky 1998).