Local Government, Taxes, and Guns

ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates transformative policy innovations with respect to security and taxation in the three main Colombian cities: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. In the first two, such policies were associated with huge success. Elsewhere we (Gutiérrez et al. 2009) have tagged these transformation processes as ‘urban/metropolitan miracles’. The term comes from the fact that both common citizens and pundits considered these to be extremely unlikely, that they were fast, and that they were large-scale. We argue, that the success of Bogotá and Medellín was the result of a set of institutional underpinnings basically related to the 1991 constitution; the opening of a window of opportunity for new political actors; and, as a result, the formation of a new government coalition and ‘governance formula’. Anti-particularism was a language related to political demands— linked organically with the pro-1991 constitution movement—which became effective

• Autores: Arenas Gómez, Juan Carlos; Gutiérrez Sanín, Francisco; Gutiérrez, Maria Teresa; Guzmán, Tania; Pinto Ocampo, María Teresa
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2011
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/10986
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/10986
• Palabra clave: Democracy; State building; Presidential election; Latin America; Democracia; Urban security; Public policies; Latinoamérica
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia