The role of the central agencies in the National Public Administration of Argentina

Abstract

Over the last decades, there has been a substantial process of creating central agencies to address a significant challenge within the National Public Administration of Argentina: the growing complexity of its organizational structure. Although these agencies have been the subject of research by public administration specialists, the perspectives explored have often not given due consideration to their functions, as researchers have tended to focus on the individual characteristics of each agency. Due to the lack of comprehensive research on the role played by Argentine central agencies, this paper aims to analyze their role within the National Public Administration. To achieve this, we introduce these organizations according to the competences defined in the regulations and describe their formal scope of control. We then classify them based on the types of processes they oversee. Our goal is to contribute to this field of study from an organizational perspective, enabling a reevaluation of coordination capabilities within the Argentine state apparatus.