Personal, particular y político: la producción del bien público en la práctica política cotidiana

Abstract The purpose of the article is to study, through the activity of those in office, the actual practices in the production of the “common good”, understood as the distribution of public goods to the citizens. The interest arises from the tension between politicians ideal behavior -according to universal and publicly orientated rules - and an actual practice that supposes taking into account the interests of individual citizens and certain social groups, as well as the own political interests. The relation between impersonality and public interest is questioned, arguing that personali...