Tiempo-espacio en la constitución estatal : una perspectiva desde la sociedad costarricense

Abstract

The author explores the time-space aspect to study the historical and social constitution of the State as a requirement to understand the regressive changes of it, in particular the case of Costa Rica. According to the author, social integration is the development of a power that transcends the unilateral visions and practices, as well as the unprecedented fact of a State assuming the respect and representation of citizen rights and interests. The social constitution of the State was the inauguration of the public matter, of the public politics and of the national projects; however, in the global context, the State and public administration reforms have been the means to automate its social function and to privatize what is public and national, as well as the society resources and properties. Social rebuilding of the State is necessary to revert the dependence from the private power of what is public.