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On local democracies in the Colombian Pacific and their incidence in public policy regarding potable water during the period 2008-2011

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  • Andrés Cendales

    (Universidad Católica de Colombia)

  • Jhon James Mora

    (Universidad ICESI)

  • José Santiago Arroyo Mina

    (Gobernación Valle del Cauca)

Abstract

Using a generalized ordered probit model, we offer statistical evidence in favor of the political economy thesis. This thesis states that government parties in power group-led precarious democracies, in which drug trafficking and clientelism are allies and seek to co-opt government at the local level, systematically undermine the quality of public policy. We choose the potable water sector in the Colombian Pacific because local democracies in this region, besieged by clientelistic structures linked to drug trafficking, have shown a logic of electoral and government behavior consistent with theory

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  • Andrés Cendales & Jhon James Mora & José Santiago Arroyo Mina, 2015. "On local democracies in the Colombian Pacific and their incidence in public policy regarding potable water during the period 2008-2011," Lecturas de Economía, Universidad de Antioquia, Departamento de Economía, issue 83, pages 161-192, Julio - D.
    • Handle: RePEc:lde:journl:y:2015:i:83:p:161-192
    DOI: 10.17533/udea.le.n83a06
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    Keywords

    public policy on potable water; public resource predation; precarious democracies; sub-national analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
    • H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government

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