Abstract

CANO BLANDON, Luisa Fernanda. The narrative of public policy in the jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court. Pap.polit. [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.2, pp.435-458. ISSN 0122-4409.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.PAPO19-2.nppj.

Although the reference to law on public policy theory is scarce, legal interest in this topic has increased in Colombia in recent years. One reason for this connection is the repetitive reference to the concept of public policy in constitutional jurisprudence. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the narrative of the Colombian Constitutional Court about the notion of public policy since the promulgation of the 1991 Constitution until 2013. The approach to accomplish this task is the narrative analysis of public policy which is addressed primarily by Emery Roe (1994). The reconstruction of such narrative takes place in two stages: first, I explore different scenarios in which the Court refers to public policy in its narrative. Second, I analyze the formal aspect of the narrative, that is, the different ways how the Court understands the public policies and what is the legal form that these policies should take.

Keywords : public policy; Constitutional Court; narrative; factual scenarios; formalization.

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