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The power of NGOs

Almost no parliamentary debate in which these civil society organizations do not have a prominent place. With highly professional staffs, years of experience and budgets billionaires, have become major players in the political scene, with great ability to lobby. Why politicians and others distrust the summon. The difficult balance between the ideological neutrality and financing needs Sued By Gabriel

major blocks of the opposition were all ready to vote in the House of Representatives to reform the Judicial Council. But weeks passed and the center-sector led by Fernando "Pino" Solanas, who should provide the necessary votes for the bill, delayed its decision. I did not want to advance without knowing the statement of a group of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that examined the opinion given by the majority.
The process, which ended last July 1 with the vote of the House, not only served to give preliminary approval to the reform of a key agency of the judiciary. It also brought to light a phenomenon that, although it has its origins in the early recovery of democracy, is becoming increasingly visible: the growing impact of NGOs in policy debates and public policy development.
discussions on reform of the Council of the Magistracy, the right of access to public information, the distribution of official advertising, marriage between same-sex couples and the protection of the glaciers are cases witnessed a phenomenon that had already intense protests had last year, during the discussion of media law, and early government of Nestor Kirchner, with the establishment of a new procedure, proposed by a group of NGOs, to select members of the Supreme Court.
With legislative turnover gave the Congress a revised leadership, NGOs and CSOs (civil society organizations) appear to have gained more ground than ever. In the House of Representatives and the Senate, almost no discussion of important issues in missing the point of view of these organizations.
In particular, those theorists define NGOs as "political organizations of civil society" organizations that have many years of experience, professionalized bodies, budgets billionaires (largely made up of donations from foreign entities) and a broad range of interests that make them stable and powerful political actors. Acting together, are present during the processing of projects in the committees, especially organized hearings to state their positions and at the same time, resorting to the typical resource lobby in private meetings with lawmakers to try to convince those who promote their agendas. But what should the advance of these organizations? What interests do they represent? Are they really independent? Where do you get the resources to operate? Can occupy places formerly reserved for political parties or the State? Are some questions that triggers the phenomenon. explanations generate more consensus on the status of NGOs from the academic point of view have to do with the democratization of political regimes, with unmet demand product for the disappearance of the welfare state, with the need of specialized knowledge to the diversification of the administrative functions of State and the creation, as a result of globalization, new international spaces that enhance the advocacy capacity of these organizations.

The diagnosis of the phenomenon are different political and NGO leaders are varied: some attribute it to the pursuit of technical knowledge away for years in political parties, others see it as a healthy revival of citizen participation channeled by nonpartisan lanes, and others, just as a seemingly neutral tool which is attended by politicians to try to settle disputes closed.
"There is more incidence of NGOs and that responds to both a matter of supply and demand. From the return of democracy, civil society space, which was focused uniquely on the human rights issue, start increase the supply of organizations that see a part of the broader public agenda and begin to appear as a means of channeling public vocation is not to be channeled through the parties'
Source: http://www.lanacion .com.ar / nota.asp? nota_id = 1303465
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