Organizational culture of yucatecan civil associations that carry out advocacy

Abstract

A study was carried out with civil society organizations in the state of Yucatan, having as common points that are organizations that carry out advocacy and their activities are framed in social development. The present article  aims  to  identify  the  characteristics that shape the organizational culture of organizations that carry out political advocacy regional o locally. In addition, as a multiple case study, common elements and particularity are identified per the social purpose of the participating civil associations. It was found that the participating organizations have the purpose of solving social problems, which benefit civil society. It is also essential for these organizations to claim their independent character, which is evident from the choice of their legal status, and through their tendency to disengage from government work. More explicitly, while some work in coordination with government agencies, they try to maintain clearly different and nonpartisan actions. Its transcendence is that, as an organized civil society, they can be the way in which citizens contribute to the construction of alternatives to public problems.