Colombia

Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - List of Figures - List of Tables Prologue: Belisario Bentancur - Introduction: Reflections on the Colombian State: In Search of a Modern Role; Eduardo Posada-Carbo - PART 1: THE COLOMBIAN STATE: HISTORY PARTIES AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM - Colombian Experience with Liberalism: On the Historical Weakness of the State; Marco Palacios - The State and Political Parties in Colombia; Gary Hoskin - Democracy State and Society in the 1991 Constitution: The role of the Constitutional Court; Manual Jose Cepeda - The Decentralised State: An Administrative or Political Challenge?; Gustavo Bell Lemus - PART 2: THE STATE AND SOCIETY - Violence and the State in Colombia; Alvaro Tirado Mej'a - State Weakness and Clientelism in Colombian Education; Jesos Duarte - On Subsidies and Home-Ownership: Housing Policies during the 1990s; Alan Gilbert - PART 3: THE STATE AND THE ECONOMIC APERTURA - The Colombian Apertura: An Assessment; Jorge Ram'rez Ocampo - Regulation and Deregulation: The Process of Reform in Colombia 1990-1994; Armando Montenegro - Evolution and Rationality of Budget Institutions in Colombia; Rudolf Hommes - Bibliography - Index. Language: English