Innovation Challenges in Latin American Administration

Faced with new challenges, public administration is searching for new levels of responsive- ness and efficiency. In most emergent nations, the success of new proposals has been jeop ardized by a strong popular distrust in government agencies and actions as well as an era of greater resource scarcity. This chapter deals with some new responses considering the Latin America context. We conducted a documentary survey on public administration responses in Latin America, which allowed to distinguish the possibilities to move toward an ideal of collaborative governance, new public policy values, and public-private partnership, thus reinforcing the arguments about a new logic for thinking about public administration.