Publication: Relaciones intergubernamentales en Colombia :centralización, descentralización y recentralización. Factores explicativos de un proceso en curso
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2022-03-01
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Esta tesis de doctorado analiza las características y la evolución de las relaciones intergubernamentales emanadas del proceso de descentralización instaurado por el Estado colombiano a mediados de la década de los años ochenta del siglo XX. Para establecer los alcances y sustrato académico del análisis se presenta inicialmente un marco conceptual de la descentralización y el abordaje de una discusión sobre hasta dónde aplicable el uso del concepto de relaciones intergubernamentales a la realidad colombiana. Aceptando lo posibilidad de utilizar el concepto con un alcance limitado del mismo, se considera que las relaciones intergubernamentales surgen y se desarrollan en estrecha relación con los avances, los retrocesos y la evolución del proceso de descentralización en el país. La descentralización en Colombia es parte de un proceso más amplio de reforma del Estado tendiente a recuperar la pérdida de legitimidad ocasionada por las restricciones a la democracia impuestas de manera paulatina por el sistema político y por la escasa presencia de las instituciones estatales en grandes porciones del territorio nacional. Las disposiciones adoptadas en los inicios del proceso se caracterizaron por establecer nuevos espacios e instituciones de participación política de los ciudadanos, siendo el aspecto más relevante la elección popular de los alcaldes. Por otro lado, se decidió trasladar desde el nivel nacional hacia el municipio la responsabilidad de ejecución de un número significativo de funciones importantes para el desarrollo local y el mejoramiento de la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. Estas medidas configuraron una nueva realidad político-administrativa para los municipios y el inicio de una relación bipolar nación-municipio que significó el surgimiento de relaciones intergubernamentales en el país...
This doctoral thesis analyzes the characteristics and evolution of intergovernmental relations emanating from the decentralization process established by the Colombian State in the mid-eighties of the twentieth century. To establish the scope and academic substrate of the analysis, a conceptual framework of decentralization is initially presented and adiscussion on the extent to which the use of the concept of intergovernmental relations is applicable to the Colombian reality. Accepting the possibility of using the concept with a limited scope of the same, it is considered that intergovernmental relations arise and develop in close relationship with the advances, setbacks and evolution of the decentralization process in the country. Decentralization in Colombia is part of a broader process of State reform aimed at recovering the loss of legitimacy caused by the restrictions on democracy gradually imposed by the political system and by the scant presence of state institutions in large portions of the national territory. The provisions adopted at the beginning of the process were characterized by establishing new spaces and institutions for the political participation of citizens, the most relevant aspect being the popular election ofmayors. On the other hand, it was decided to transfer responsibility for the execution of a significant number of important functions for local development and improvement of the quality of life of its inhabitants from the national level to the municipality. These measures configured a new political-administrative reality for the municipalities and the beginning of a bipolar nation-municipality relationship that meant the emergence of intergovernmental relations in the country...
This doctoral thesis analyzes the characteristics and evolution of intergovernmental relations emanating from the decentralization process established by the Colombian State in the mid-eighties of the twentieth century. To establish the scope and academic substrate of the analysis, a conceptual framework of decentralization is initially presented and adiscussion on the extent to which the use of the concept of intergovernmental relations is applicable to the Colombian reality. Accepting the possibility of using the concept with a limited scope of the same, it is considered that intergovernmental relations arise and develop in close relationship with the advances, setbacks and evolution of the decentralization process in the country. Decentralization in Colombia is part of a broader process of State reform aimed at recovering the loss of legitimacy caused by the restrictions on democracy gradually imposed by the political system and by the scant presence of state institutions in large portions of the national territory. The provisions adopted at the beginning of the process were characterized by establishing new spaces and institutions for the political participation of citizens, the most relevant aspect being the popular election ofmayors. On the other hand, it was decided to transfer responsibility for the execution of a significant number of important functions for local development and improvement of the quality of life of its inhabitants from the national level to the municipality. These measures configured a new political-administrative reality for the municipalities and the beginning of a bipolar nation-municipality relationship that meant the emergence of intergovernmental relations in the country...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, leída el 01-02-2021