Policy Analysis in Colombia

Pablo Sanabria-Pulido is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the School of Government at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia and Affiliate Professor at CIDE Mexico, Public Administration Division.Nadia Rubaii (1964-2022) was Professor of Public Administration and Co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University, State University of New York and Adjunct Researcher at Universidad de los Andes.

• Introduction ~ Nadia Rubaii and Pablo Sanabria-PulidoPART I: POLICY ANALYSIS IN CONTEMPORARY COLOMBIA1. The Policy Analysis Movement in Colombia: The State of the Art ~ Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Nadia Rubaii and Andrés Guzmán2. Evolution of Policy Analysis as a Field of Study and Instruction in Colombia ~ Nadia Rubaii andPablo Sanabria-Pulido3. Policy Analysis, Bureaucratic Capacity and Public Administration Reforms in Colombia ~ Maria Fernanda Ramírez and Carolina IsazaPART II: POLICY ANALYSIS WITHIN NATIONAL AND SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS4. Policy Analysis Inside Central Government: building up from the National Development Plan ~ Luis Bernardo Mejia5. Policy Analysis and the Legislature in Colombia ~ Monica Pachon and Manuela Muñoz6. Policy Analysis in the Colombian Constitutional Court ~ Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Raga and Santiago Virgüez-Ruiz7. Metropolitan Policy Analysis in Colombia: A Subnational Comparative Analysis and a Path-Dependent Explanation ~ Santiago Leyva, Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Enrique Rodriguez-Caporalli8. Policy Analysis for Decision Making in Colombian Local Governments ~ Claudia Avellaneda and Ricardo Bello-GomezPART III: POLICY ANALYSIS IN KEY POLICY DOMAINS9. Policy Analysis in Education Policy in Colombia ~ Sandra Garcia, Dario Maldonado and Sarah Muñoz-Cadena10. The Evolution of Policy Analysis in the Health Sector in Colombia ~ Andres Vecino-Ortiz, Stephanie Puerto-Gracia, Diego Lucumi and Janeth Mosquera-Becerra11. 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 Bitar12. Technocracy, Decision Making and Economic Policy in Colombia: 1980-2016 ~ Marta Juanita Villaveces-Niño and Carlos Caballero-Argaez13. 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 STATE14. Political Parties and Policy Analysis in Colombia ~ Sebastián Lippez-De Castro15. Policy Analysis and NGOs in Colombia ~ Susan Appe and Fabian Telch16. Media, Evidence and Policy Analysis in Colombia ~ Juan Guillermo Vieira-SilvaConclusion ~ Pablo Sanabria-Pulido and Nadia Rubaii