La ineficacia de los derechos sociales en el marco de la gobernanza posdemocrática:: Un estudio de las políticas públicas de vivienda en España

Based on an analysis of the cycle of public housing policies that began in Spain after the 2008-2014 crisis and analyzing its results ten years after the beginning of its implementation, we come to the conclusion that, despite the good will and efforts of many regional and municipal administrations, the fruits are very limited. Why? The thesis that this work defends is that the replacement of the old government paradigm of democratic leadership with the current neoliberal paradigm of post-democratic governance, fruit  of the change in the phase of development of capitalism during the last four decades, leads us to a scenario where any legislative initiative that guarantees social rights is neutralized by the game of functional interdependencies between a plural constellation of multi-scalar actors that, through their interactions, surpass the State and determine its internal policies. This breaks the direct relationship between government action and results. Faced with this, the only option to guarantee a future of economic and social well-being for the majority of the population lies in the field of the right to housing and other social rights, because the type of State intervention in the guarantee of social rights It stops being done through the “regulation of self-regulation” and begins to be done through management, planning and the imposition of the public over the private.