El papel del Estado en la definición de la política argentina de hidrocarburos ¿Hacia cuál referencial sectorial?

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of the State in Argentina in the last three decades, based on oil policies, in order to understand its different transformations. The 90s were characterized by an abrupt referential change in the role of the state but especially in the productive and regulatory capacity on hydrocarbons. Despite of the neo­liberal paradigm crisis on the beginning of the new millennium, energy policies on hydrocar­bons still maintained the previous referential sector strategies. From the analysis of documentary sour­ces and quantitative data, this paper aims to demonstrate how oil policy remains managed by market forces despite the fact that 51 % of Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF) shares were purchased by the State.