Titlebook: Colombia; The Politics of Refo Eduardo Posada-Carbó (Senior Lecturer in Latin Ame Book 1998 Institute of Latin American Studies 1998 budget

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Introduction Reflections on the Colombian State: in Search of a Modern Rolen was writing from his own experience. As a minister of industry in Venezuela, he was part of a government embarked on a drastic programme of reform geared at increasing the role of market forces in the economy. Popular reaction against the reforms took the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989–93

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Democracy, State and Society in the 1991 Constitution: The Role of the Constitutional Courtitution, one of the oldest in Latin America at that time, was repealed after a process of intense public deliberation — the most open, pluralistic and democratic in Colombia’s history. Even active guerrilla groups were invited to participate as an incentive to their demobilisation.

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The Decentralised State: an Administrative or Political Challenge?ocesses of institutional change that the country has experienced in the last two decades. Initiated, without much debate, at the end of the 1970s as a process against the concentration of power at the centre, it originally served more as an answer to the evident loss of legitimacy of the state.. But

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State Weakness and Clientelism in Colombian Educationng, the government of President Ernesto Samper decided to take up the challenge of making this constitutional mandate a reality. This chapter examines some of the structural obstacles the government faces in achieving this goal. In the first part, it will summarise the present situation of Colombian

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Regulation and Deregulation: The Process of Reform in Colombia, 1990–94economy. These reforms aimed at strengthening the presence of government in long-neglected areas: security, justice and services for the poor. Meanwhile they sought to encourage the private sector to enter into and compete in previously protected markets, and expand its role in areas such as public