Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors’ Introduction to the Series
- Policy Analysis in Colombia: An Introduction
- Part One Policy Analysis in Contemporary Colombia
- One The policy Analysis Movement in Colombia: The State of the Art
- Two Evolution of Policy Analysis as a Field of Study and Instruction in Colombia
- Three Policy Analysis, Bureaucratic Capacity and Public Administration Reforms in Colombia
- Part Two Policy Analysis within National and Subnational Governments
- Four Policy Analysis Inside Central Government in Colombia
- Five Policy Analysis and the Legislature in Colombia
- Six Policy Analysis in the Colombian Constitutional Court
- Seven Metropolitan Governance and Policy Analysis in Colombia
- Eight Policy Analysis for Decision Making in Colombian Local Governments
- Part Three Policy Analysis in Key Policy Domains
- Nine Policy Analysis in the Education Sector in Colombia
- Ten Policy Analysis in the Health Sector in Colombia
- Eleven Policy Analysis and Decision Making in the Military Forces: The Havana Experience
- Twelve Technocracy, Decision Making and Economic Policy in Colombia
- Thirteen Social Policy, Target Populations and Policy Analysis in Colombia
- Part Four Policy Analysis Beyond the State
- Fourteen Political Parties and Policy Analysis in Colombia
- Fifteen Policy Analysis and NGOs in Colombia
- Sixteen Media, Evidence and Policy Analysis in Colombia
- Conclusion: Building Capacity for Policy Analysis Amid Tensions and Challenges in Colombia
- Index
One - The policy Analysis Movement in Colombia: The State of the Art
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Editors’ Introduction to the Series
- Policy Analysis in Colombia: An Introduction
- Part One Policy Analysis in Contemporary Colombia
- One The policy Analysis Movement in Colombia: The State of the Art
- Two Evolution of Policy Analysis as a Field of Study and Instruction in Colombia
- Three Policy Analysis, Bureaucratic Capacity and Public Administration Reforms in Colombia
- Part Two Policy Analysis within National and Subnational Governments
- Four Policy Analysis Inside Central Government in Colombia
- Five Policy Analysis and the Legislature in Colombia
- Six Policy Analysis in the Colombian Constitutional Court
- Seven Metropolitan Governance and Policy Analysis in Colombia
- Eight Policy Analysis for Decision Making in Colombian Local Governments
- Part Three Policy Analysis in Key Policy Domains
- Nine Policy Analysis in the Education Sector in Colombia
- Ten Policy Analysis in the Health Sector in Colombia
- Eleven Policy Analysis and Decision Making in the Military Forces: The Havana Experience
- Twelve Technocracy, Decision Making and Economic Policy in Colombia
- Thirteen Social Policy, Target Populations and Policy Analysis in Colombia
- Part Four Policy Analysis Beyond the State
- Fourteen Political Parties and Policy Analysis in Colombia
- Fifteen Policy Analysis and NGOs in Colombia
- Sixteen Media, Evidence and Policy Analysis in Colombia
- Conclusion: Building Capacity for Policy Analysis Amid Tensions and Challenges in Colombia
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Policy analysis in Colombia appears to be a relatively recent trend, both in scholarship and practice. Yet, revisiting policy analysis in Colombia, its approaches, and practices, implies the recognition of key challenges in describing its evolution. First, since the actual development of policy analysis, although short, stretches for more than 50 years of evolution, the act of identifying those milestones is thus far from straightforward. Considering that policy analysis involves a complex and cyclical process made of manifold moments, it has to be able to acknowledge the sociopolitical process of a particular country. Namely, it also needs to recognize the multiple intentions of organizing and rationalizing public actions and decisions in a particular country, even long before the terms “policy analysis” or “public policy sciences” were widely used. It should also take into account the actors involved in enhancing the adoption of a more technical perspective towards public policy.
A second challenge that cannot be set aside while tracing the evolution of policy analysis in the country, and the particular ways in which it has occurred, is the fact that its development has been probably influenced by external forces, such as the evolution of the discipline or field of study abroad; the influence of policy transfer and the transmission of the different narratives from foreign governments and multilateral organizations; and the role of international epistemic communities and networks that have fed policy-making processes in the country. Thus, there are both internal and external factors that need to be taken into account when analyzing the evolution of policy analysis in Colombia.
In this way, this chapter proposes the examination of policy analysis progression in Colombia based on historical and analytical background by identifying key actors, and by defining three essential moments that allow us to better recognize the key, internal and external, actors and the major milestones along the road. Thus, in the first moment, we start by listing the first efforts whereby a “scientific” approach to public policy started to be proposed (and initially adopted) in the Colombian context. In particular, we consider the role of international missions in the second half of the 20th century as defining forces that laid the groundwork for the early institutional and organizational developments in the country's public administration.
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- Policy Analysis in Colombia , pp. 11 - 30Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2020