Abstract

From the implementation of what in contextual terms has been referred to as strategic legislative management, the Missionary Legislature has been the first in Argentina to obtain the ISO certification of institutional quality. In this article, through an ethnographic study in the parliamentary field focused on the social and symbolic processes that allowed the configuration of a new institutionality, I will argue that the implementation of a ‘managerial model’ has not succeeded in displacing certain practices associated with the ‘traditional bureaucratic model’, which is supposed to be pre-existing and in the process of being overcome by the former. Rather, strategic legislative management combines aspects of both models. If the first appears deployed as an institutional policy that involves the execution of regulations, guidelines and specific procedures; the second appears embodied in the habitus and dispositions of the agents, thus raising not a few tensions and moral evaluations.

Keywords:
Legislative Management; Parliamentary Field; Province of Misiones; Ethnography