Modernization of Local Public Management from the Principles of Governance. An Opportunity for Institutionalization Study Unit: Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito

Abstract

The research aims to interpret the modernization of local public management thought of institutional governance, accompanied by the following guidelines: Contextualize the principles of institutional governance from the local level, and reflect on institutional governance as an instrument for the modernization of local public management. The research has a phenomenological and interpretative approach, with an inductive dimension and a documentary review strategy; The theoretical saturation of the topics discussed has occurred from the practice of the technique of constant comparison, adding the criteria of the researchers, as well as the ideas expressed by the key informants, resulting in a new praxis within local public management, especially from the spaces of institutional governance. On the other hand, the research is of descriptive level in which the main attributes of the Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito are appreciated, in which its radius of influence within its environment stands out. The main strategy of analysis has been the one proposed by the Grounded Theory (Strauss and Corbin), is allowed to sustain the process of categorization that gives rise to the slopes for a good practice within local public management: 1.- Modernization of local public management and 2.- Institutional governance for local development; both aspects have allowed the generation of a central category called: Modernization of local public management from the principles of governance. An opportunity for institutionalization.