@techreport{GutierrezS.2011Local,
abstract = {This paper evaluates transformative policy innovations with respect to security and taxation in the three main Colombian cities: Bogot\'{a}, Medell\'{\i}n, and Cali. In the first two, such policies were associated with huge success. Elsewhere we (Guti\'{e}rrez 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 Bogot\'{a} and Medell\'{\i}n 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.},
address = {Helsinki},
author = {Francisco Guti\'{e}rrez S. and Mar\'{\i}a Teresa Guti\'{e}rrez and Tania Guzm\'{a}n and Juan Carlos Arenas and Mar\'{\i}a Teresa Pinto},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
isbn = {978-92-9230-389-1},
keywords = {O54; O20; P41; R11; 330; urban security; state building; public policies},
language = {eng},
number = {2011,26},
publisher = {WIDER},
title = {Local government, taxes, and guns: Successful policy innovation in three Colombian cities},
type = {Working paper // World Institute for Development Economics Research},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/54130},
year = {2011}
}
