Una relación problemática: el acceso a la justicia y la gestión política

Abstract

The aim of this article is to make an attempt to explore the relations between the outcasts of society and the strategies that politicians carry out during their administration and their use of social welfare programmes as a means of political recruitment.  These programmes, whenever they are launched, create different political dependencies, turning The Poor into “clients” of the  ruling party.

 This  assertion is grounded  in the social-legal research “The Access to Justice and the Strategies of The Poor in facing the conflicts in some neighbourhoods of the city of La Plata and the Great La Plata ”.  The survey was conducted in  four neighourhoods  in the outskirts of the city.  The starting point, was the hypothesis that for those citizens, the access to justice is not only an economical problem, the lack of knowledge of their human rights, the distance or closeness to the courts of justice, the nature of the conflicts themselves, but it is also a much wider and more complex problem intertwined with the rest : The relationship between political policies in granting social welfare programmes as a means of  extending social inclusion and the effective exercise of rights. It can be said  that the poor citizens’ dependency on the  grant of welfare programmes by the administration is the consequence of their restricted access to justice.  As regards, their  restricted access to Justice , it is necessary to take into account the difficulties they encounter in reaching out the administration, as well as, in seeing it as an institution capable of acknowledging and solving their conflicts