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dc.contributor.author | Gutiérrez S., Francisco | en |
dc.contributor.author | Gutiérrez, María Teresa | en |
dc.contributor.author | Guzmán, Tania | en |
dc.contributor.author | Arenas, Juan Carlos | en |
dc.contributor.author | Pinto, María Teresa | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-09 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-15T13:19:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-12-15T13:19:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-92-9230-389-1 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/54130 | - |
dc.description.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 because it matched the crucial strategic concerns of heterogeneous constituencies with respect to security and state-building. It was the cement holding together the coalitions that allowed large-scale urban transformation, and it tamed the opposition of the rich because it was issued as the solution their (and everyone else's) collective action problems. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aThe United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) |cHelsinki | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aWIDER Working Paper |x2011/26 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O54 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O20 | en |
dc.subject.jel | P41 | en |
dc.subject.jel | R11 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | urban security | en |
dc.subject.keyword | state building | en |
dc.subject.keyword | public policies | en |
dc.title | Local government, taxes, and guns: Successful policy innovation in three Colombian cities | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 657452874 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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