Ética, estado y gestión pública en América Latina

Public management is understood as the set of procedures aimed at managing the available resources of the State, a political-social entity that emerged to preserve citizen interests. However, although the administrative priority is recognized in public management models, it is also alluded to that there are ethical, axiological and philosophical considerations in the background, which must be oriented towards a review of the social, to question the role of the State. and point out its weakening in the face of Western globalization. For this reason, the article aims to analyze the ethical dimension of public management, considering the following elements: 1. The State as a regulatory entity of public life and social organization 2. The corporate model of the State, in which public policies, social spending and interest in the collective good are diminished. 3. The ethical dimension of public management, which calls for the construction of axiological categories, which connect the meaning of what is public with social welfare. The method applied in the research is the hermeneutic-documentary review. The conclusions of the research are oriented to the urgency of articulating ethics with public Management, building management alternatives that make it possible to correct the shortcomings that have occurred due to the weakening of the Nation-State.