PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND CO-GOVERNANCE: THE CONSTANT STATE OF CRISIS AND THE IMPERATIVE TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL RIGHTS

Abstract

In the face of the permanent State of Crisis, a structural concept of Liquid Modernity characterized by chronic uncertainty and the crisis of the nation-state's agency, this research proposes the radical restructuring of Public Administration. The central objective is to demonstrate that the overcoming of the efficacy crisis and the guarantee of the Principle of Dignified Existence depend, ineluctably, on the adoption of a Societal Co-Governance model. The methodology combined a systematic bibliographic review of foundational authors in Law and Sociology with the research of concrete cases of tri-sectoral partnerships, lending unquestionable empirical robustness to the thesis. The work is divided into two parts: the first diagnoses the inadequacy of classic bureaucracy; the second establishes the Co-Governance model, detailing the strategic integration with the Market (for Digital Transformation and efficiency) and with the Third Sector (for inclusion and capillarity). The research concludes that Tri-Sectoral Co-Governance establishes itself as the strategic imperative for Public Administration, by migrating from a centralizing role to that of a network articulator, to recover its institutional capacity and ensure the effectiveness of essential rights in the turbulent 21st century.