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Political participation of former combatants is a central component of peace agreements. Similarly, people’s acceptance of political parties derived from such agreements is a crucial element towards peace building. Considering the peace deal between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revoluciona...
For several decades now, the decentralization of policy authority to local officials has been a key component of development strategies around the world–emanating both from developing country governments themselves and the international development community as well. After more than thirty years of these efforts, we still have no clear consensus co...
Based on a study of the 2014 presidential campaign in Colombia, this article analyzes how individuals use ideological labels to characterize their own ideological preferences and those of the candidates. Using information from the Americas Barometer, it establishes that individuals do not perceive major differences among the positions of presidenti...
La literatura sobre el comportamiento legislativo tiende a enfatizar la reelección como una de sus motivaciones principales. Sin embargo, en contextos como el colombiano, donde buscar la reelección no es algo obvio, es necesario buscar los motivos por los que un legislador quisiera continuar ocupando una curul. Se propone que una motivación es la p...
Previous works about legislative behavior emphasize looking for reelection as one of the main motivations. Nonetheless, in contexts like the Colombian where reelection is not an obvious choice it is necessary to look for the motivations for continuing having a seat in Congress. It is proposed that policy-seeking could be one of them. This goal in i...
The State-building process must be understood through the study of the agencies in charge of each of its regulatory functions. One such function is the regulation of property rights. During the Liberal Republic, as a reaction to the massive mobilization, new tools to better regulate property rights were promoted: colonization, parceling, the award...
La construcción del Estado debe estudiarse a través de la forma como se estructuran las agencias encargadas de cumplir cada una de sus funciones de regulación. Una de estas funciones es la regulación de los derechos de propiedad. Durante la República Liberal, como reacción a la fuerte movilización social, se promovió el desarrollo de instrumentos d...
The main source of difficulties we find in social sciences to accumulate knowledge comes from fusioning the question of what to research with the question of how to solve research questions. It is argued that the escape from this trap is only possible when the phenomenon under study is located in its spatial and temporal context. Using comparison i...
The main source of difficulties we find in social sciences to accumulate knowledge comes from fusioning the question of what to research with the question of how to solve research questions. It is argued that the escape from this trap is only possible when the phenomenon under study is located in its spatial and temporal context. Using comparison i...
It is explored a strategy to analyze the press releases made by the FARC, the ELN, and the ACCU-AUC. It is based on the minimal grammatical structure: Subject- Action - Object. Using this grammatical triplet, the network of connections are built up; and then, some of the Social Network Analysis tools are applied to it. Some mechanisms related with...
