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| Title: | | Local government, taxes, and guns: Successful policy innovation in three Colombian cities  |
| Authors: | | Gutiérrez S., Francisco Gutiérrez, María Teresa Guzmán, Tania Arenas, Juan Carlos Pinto, María Teresa |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // World Institute for Development Economics Research 2011,26 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | urban security state building public policies |
| JEL: | | O54 O20 P41 R11 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-389-1 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Working Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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