¿POR QUÉ LOS BROKERS PERSIGUEN BIENES Y SERVICIOS PÚBLICOS? ANÁLISIS ETNOGRÁFICO DE DOS CASOS DE LA PERIFERIA DE BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA)

espanolSegun expertos, los brokers se involucran exclusivamente en intercambios discrecionales de favores por apoyo politico entre patrones politicos y clientes. Para que el intercambio se concrete es necesario que los favores no sean de goce publico, sino que beneficien solo a quienes esten dispuestos a prestar su apoyo politico a cambio. No obstante, este estudio etnografico muestra como dos brokers persiguen bienes y servicios publicos e, incluso, lideran protestas sociales en demanda por ellos. Se sugiere que estos no son casos excepcionales, sino que los brokers tienen incentivos para hacerlo porque en su mayoria son vecinos de sus clientes y sufren tanto como ellos la falta de acceso a bienes y servicios publicos EnglishAccording to experts, broker exclusively involves in discretionary exchange of favors for political support between political patrons and clients. For the exchange to take place, favors should not be of public benefit, but only for those who are willing to lend their political support in return. However, this ethnographic stud shows how two brokers usually seek public goods and services and even lead social protests in demand for them. It is suggested that these are not exceptional cases, since brokers have incentives to do so because they are mostly neighbors of their clients and suffer as much as they, lack of access to public goods and services