Obstacles in the construction of state policies

Abstract

This article addresses the problem of developing public policies in the new scenarios of contemporary capitalism. Some accumulation processes are deeply and sophisticatedly destructive, although they offer high rates of capital appreciation. With this premise, some axial questions arise to be addressed in this article, which begins with the restrictions that the world of globalization imposes on the State, and reopens the reflection on the economic and political difficulties to implement and sustain public policies that avoid or modify those harmful consequences. The article is divided into three sections: in the first, the restrictions imposed by the model that follows economic growth; The second briefly describes the clash between this growth and the ineffectiveness of borders; and the third also describes some of the