This article reflects on the relationship between government institutions and civil society in socio-productive development policies implemented in Argentina since 2003. It examines the role assigned to the participation of civil society beneficiaries and organizations in these policies and the suppositions about the forms of participation established in their norms. It then looks at the effective development of this articulation between the state and civil society in the process of execution of the programs and difficulties that arise at a labor cooperative that was supported by these programs. A plural methodological approach was used that articulated document analysis to qualitative ethnographic techniques.
Social policies; Social economy; State; Civil society