SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 29. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Parliament of the Canary Islands hosted this Tuesday the presentation of the book ‘Political Science in the Canary Islands’, directed by the professor of Political Science and Administration at the University of La Laguna, José Adrián García Rojas, and the professor-tutor of Public Policies at the National University of Distance Education (UNED).
The work reviews the political history of the archipelago through articles by eleven authors from political science and different social branches and tries to offer tools to understand and evaluate public policies.
Before the media, García Rojas stressed that human beings, when they interact, already practice a form of politics and stressed that the book offers keys, through various voices, to better understand and analyze Canarian politics.
Llanos has commented that the political class “does not go through its best moments of credibility” and in this sense, the book aims to provide political science tools to make public policies “more effective” and that politicians themselves “do better his work”.
Thus, he commented that the book affects the insular identity of the Canary Islands, given that this autonomous community is “different” from the rest, and deepens in knowing the origins of democracy in the archipelago and “without forgetting” its geographical position or the conflict opened between Spain and Morocco by maritime delimitation.
The work also includes an analysis of the jurisdiction of the islands, the redefinition of the productive model, the way in which those under 30 years of age socialize with politics through new technologies or the form of government of the councils.
Likewise, the role of the Canarian Coalition (CC) is addressed after almost 30 years at the head of the autonomous community, the role of the private sphere in improving public policies, corruption, quantified and territorialized in the last 25 years, or the link between sport and politics.
Llanos has pointed out that politicians “usually think” that it is enough to carry out an analysis every FOUR years, with the elections, to know if their decisions are the correct ones, but “you have to analyze and know if what the institutions are doing they are doing well” .
The President of Parliament, Gustavo Matos, who attended the presentation, indicated that the Regional Chamber “is the best place” to present this work at a time when politics occupies a “prominent place today and daily life “.
MATOS HIGHLIGHTS THE “RELEVANCE” OF POLITICS TODAY
According to Matos, a few years ago “people were apolitical or not interested” and today their “relevance” is taken into account due to the health and economic crisis and the consequences of the war in Ukraine, which “has retouched current geopolitics” and leads society into “uncharted territories.”
He has said that currently “it is difficult to write anything” about political theory because “it can be obsolete 24 hours later” because there are “unpredictable events that change everything” but he understands that this book “makes a very accurate analysis” and will be a “guide practice” for the future in the way that sailors had to reach a good port.
“I hope it is a reference work and that all deputies read it,” he added.
