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Book SynopsisAn innovative and systematic overview of policy analysis in Colombia and an instructive view of how it might help studies elsewhere. Leading academics assess central and local policy in fields including health, education and the military, and explore their role in Colombia’s economic development, resolution of internal conflict and other successes.
Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Nadia Rubaii and Pablo Sanabria-Pulido PART I: POLICY ANALYSIS IN CONTEMPORARY COLOMBIA 1. The Policy Analysis Movement in Colombia: The State of the Art ~ Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Nadia Rubaii and Andrés Guzmán 2. Evolution of Policy Analysis as a Field of Study and Instruction in Colombia ~ Nadia Rubaii and Pablo Sanabria-Pulido 3. Policy Analysis, Bureaucratic Capacity and Public Administration Reforms in Colombia ~ Maria Fernanda Ramírez and Carolina Isaza PART II: POLICY ANALYSIS WITHIN NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS 4. Policy Analysis Inside Central Government: building up from the National Development Plan ~ Luis Bernardo Mejia 5. Policy Analysis and the Legislature in Colombia ~ Monica Pachon and Manuela Muñoz 6. Policy Analysis in the Colombian Constitutional Court ~ Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Raga and Santiago Virgüez-Ruiz 7. Metropolitan Policy Analysis in Colombia: A Subnational Comparative Analysis and a Path-Dependent Explanation ~ Santiago Leyva, Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Enrique Rodriguez-Caporalli 8. Policy Analysis for Decision Making in Colombian Local Governments ~ Claudia Avellaneda and Ricardo Bello-Gomez PART III: POLICY ANALYSIS IN KEY POLICY DOMAINS 9. Policy Analysis in Education Policy in Colombia ~ Sandra Garcia, Dario Maldonado and Sarah Muñoz-Cadena 10. The Evolution of Policy Analysis in the Health Sector in Colombia ~ Andres Vecino-Ortiz, Stephanie Puerto-Gracia, Diego Lucumi and Janeth Mosquera-Becerra 11. Public Policy Analysis and Decision Making in the Military Forces: The Havana Experience ~ Paula Lorena Mora-Hernández, Juan David Gélvez-Ferreira, Michael Weintraub and Sebastián Bitar 12. Technocracy, Decision Making and Economic Policy in Colombia: 1980-2016 ~ Marta Juanita Villaveces-Niño and Carlos Caballero-Argaez 13. Social Policy in Colombia: A Case of Expanding Policy Targeting in the Context of a Truncated Welfare State ~ Santiago Leyva and Andrés Olaya PART IV: POLICY ANALYSIS BEYOND THE STATE 14. Political Parties and Policy Analysis in Colombia ~ Sebastián Lippez-De Castro 15. Policy Analysis and NGOs in Colombia ~ Susan Appe and Fabian Telch 16. Media, Evidence and Policy Analysis in Colombia ~ Juan Guillermo Vieira-Silva Conclusion ~ Pablo Sanabria-Pulido and Nadia Rubaii
