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This paper discusses the relationship between the characteristics assumed by the public administration and changes in the democratic model from 1958 until the second millennium in Venezuela. Methodologically, four stages are distinguished from the characteristics assumed by democracy. 1. Democracy of the big parties and the model of import substitution, political representation and administrative centralization (1961); 2. Formally participatory and administratively decentralized democracy 1990), 3; people's and populist democracy with military base and administrative recentralization (1999); 4). Competitive authoritarianism. It is concluded that there is a significantly political relationship between the model of democracy and the models of public administration assumed in the model of the Venezuelan democratic regime, there are authoritarian changes from the periphery to the center as the institutional model went into crisis until its political breakin in 2018. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabajo se propone analizar la problemática de la política y gestión pública comunitarias en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, a partir del estudio de la experiencia del municipio Lagunillas en el estado Zulia. Se parte de una comprensión de la política como tipo de relación social mediada por la disputa y/o ejercicio de poder, y los recursos materiales o simbólicos relacionados con éste; asumiéndola en una doble dimensión: como gobierno de los hombres y como administración de las cosas. Los resultados apuntan a una concepción y praxis de la política comunitaria signada por la cooptación, el conflicto y la disputa partidaria, que restringe la participación autónoma y empoderadora de la ciudadanía. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present a set of theoretical approximations as to political administrative decentralization in Venezuela, in relation to the processes of incorporating social organizations in the affairs of public administration. Decentralization is situated within the technical parameters established by administrative modernization and has been the pattern in Latin America since the end of the 1970s, due to pressures for economic model changes. This brought about change in the process of economic accumulation, and changes in accumulation when the economies of import substitution were displaced by the implantation of models for the internationalization of markets. These changes bring about "needs", the dramatic change both in the development model and the administrative models in Venezuela, that is changes in the centralized poplistic bureaucratic administration towards a model of decentralized public management, a model that requires the incorporation of organized communities in the process of the decentralization of competence. This has produced a new arrangement in the objectives of efficiency in order to achieve involvement of human collectives in the execution of plans and co-opted programs. This situation is more observable in the decentralization of competence associated with social development (health, education and others,) and not in competence associated with the economy, such as airports, shipping ports and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]