El ámbito de desarrollo local de la Comunitat Valenciana (España),un modelo dualizado

Resumen

The diachronic observation of local development policies in the province of Valencia(Spain) shows the progressive transfer of management and control of these policiesfrom the State to the regions, based on the discourses on the territorial dimensionof employment. However, the Valencian local development model, since its birth fourdecades ago, has experienced a significant dualisation. This can be detected in factorssuch as the size of the agencies, their seniority and the experience of the agents, withnegative effects for development planning and management and for the territory. Bymeans of a survey based on pairs of bipolar items to the AEDL technicians (actorspresent in the territory), the main contribution of the work presented here is that thisdualisation makes it possible to define certain scenarios with specific characteristicsthat allow us to glimpse an underlying “itinerary” through which the different territoriesand their actors specialised in the management and planning of local development pass:(a) initial consolidation phase, in which they orient their objectives towards “doing”; (b)intermediate, focused on the effectiveness of the process, in which the “how” it is doneacquires priority; and (c) maturity, of generating their own methodologies and ways ofdoing, covering the objectives from the point of view of operational effectiveness. Thesetrajectories show the identification of the activity with the professional who carries it outand, above all, lead to the appearance of the dualisation indicated or, where appropriate,its minimisation.