A government triad

public policy, social welfare and operating rules of the Youth Building the Future Program

Abstract

The essay aims to construct a reflection between the positions of Cabrero (2000), Gottweis (2007), Aguilar (1997) and Majone (2000) based on the concepts of government policy, logos, ethos, pathos, discourse, argumentation and public interest, as well as, expose a critical interpretation of the 4T Welfare Policy and the program and operating rules of Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro as part of a clientelist apparatus of a historical social policy regime in Mexico, specifically, during the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. That is to say, the article is the product of a doctoral research - in development - with a qualitative methodological design that integrates press analysis, focus groups, semistructured interviews and a field diary; however, for this occasion, I only recovered some extracts from the analysis. press releases, semi-structured interviews and the testimonies of some key informants that I have recorded in a field diary, since this allowed me to generate a link between concepts and empirical evidence.