The Parliament and State agenda

Abstract

The usual configuration of the state agenda during the 20th century has depended on the protagonism of the government that assumes a position of active centrality through a strategic design of action that has advanced in parallel to the expansive phase of the social State after the Second World War. This initial design of the action has undergone a complete mutation since the end of the 20th century, going from being an a priori design to being more a posteriori response. And in turn this type of response has followed two paths; that of strict interventionist activity through public policies; and that of media responses that are frequently reduced to pure virtual action. The transition from an expansive social state to a sustainable social state is configured as a historical mutation that affects the very nature of the state agenda and the government-parliament duality. After the great financial crisis of 2008, the State’s agenda has now been stabilized in terms of benefits or intervention. This causes a displacement of the state agenda from its interventionist projection towards a new positional dimension.