Carolina Isaza

Externado University of Colombia · Faculty of Finances, Government and International Relations (FIGRI)

This article addresses the metaphors about corruption from a comparison between public discourses in European and in Colombian media. Using Conceptual Metaphor Theory and content analysis, we pose three research questions: What are the metaphors associated with political or public corruption in Colombia and Europe? Are they similar or different? Wh...

This book is an innovative and systematic overview of policy analysis in Colombia and an instructive view of how it might help studies elsewhere. It casts new light on Colombia in a systematic overview of policy analysis for an international audience. Examining the historical development and current status of policy analysis as a field of study and...

This article discusses how governance processes are developed through national development planning (NDP), drawing on the experiences of Colombian practitioners. A majority of countries of the world use NDP as a key policy tool across the full range of substantive policy areas, however recent research in the fields of public administration and poli...

This article analyses the construction of a public discourse about accountability in Colombia. The article maps the different interpretations that actors make of political ideas related to accountability and their change over a period of 13 years (1991–2014). The article has an interpretive framework and uses content and discourse analysis techniqu...

Este artículo presenta una discusión de la literatura interdisciplinar reciente sobre el estudio empírico y experimental de la corrupción. El análisis empírico de la corrupción se ve dificultado por su naturaleza ilícita. En las dos últimas décadas, han prevalecido estudios econométricos basados en datos de percepción de corrupción. Si bien estos h...

Starting from the acknowledgement of the importance of accountability for contemporary public administrations, this article develops both conceptual approaches about accountability and a case study, that of Colombia. The objective of the article is to analyze the institutional design for accountability in the Colombian case, in order to identify it...

Starting from the acknowledgement of the importance of accountability for contemporary public administrations, this article develops both conceptual approaches about accountability and a case study, that of Colombia. The objective of the article is to analyze the institutional design for accountability in the Colombian case, in order to identify it...

The time is ripe to revisit capacity. Its role on international aid in the past decade nurtured the term, sharpening its means. It is still a common reference of public affairs in developing contexts, often imprecisely addressed. This paper updates the discussion by answering the question: what has been said about capacity? The review focuses on co...

El artículo presenta las características del servicio civil colombiano y argumenta que este existe en un nivel formal, pero sufre de una brecha de implementación que ha conducido a la creación de una serie de disfuncionalidades en el sistema. Esta situación explica la discrepancia entre la imagen positiva que existe fuera del país frente a su servi...

El artículo presenta y discute diferentes interpretaciones y perspectivas sobre la corrupción. Revisita los debates principales sobre la definición de corrupción, las tipologías, mediciones, explicaciones y soluciones propuestas en relación con la corrupción como problema social. El objetivo es sintetizar y analizar las diferentes formas en que se...

This article intends to debate the pertinence of the current reform models for public administrations in the Latin American context. The first part revises three approaches to the modernization of public administrations, and makes clear not only their proposals, but also their theoretical roots and limitations, both theoretical and empirical. The s...

The article explains some basic assumptions of economic theory from a political science perspective. It proposes that corruption is a problem related both to market and State failures, and collective action problems in general. In a non economic language, it adresses the relationship between market, State and social decision-making, in connection w...

El art�culo explica algunos presupuestos b�sicos de la teor�a econ�mica desde una lectura politol�gica, para proponer que la corrupci�n es un problema relacionado con fallos de mercado y con fallos del Estado, y los problemas de la acci�n colectiva. Con el lenguaje del no experto, se abordan de forma sint�tica las relaciones entre mercado, Estado y...