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Item type: Item , Agency Loss and the Strategic Redesign of the Presidential Office in Colombia(Cambridge University Press, 2018) Luis Bernardo Mejía-Guinand; Felipe Botero; Angélica SolanoAbstract Presidents rely on their trusted advisers to collect, analyze, coordinate, and present information in a timely fashion. However, Latin American presidents often fail to form majority governments and must use cabinet appointments to secure legislative coalitions to pursue their policies. This article suggests that presidents strategically redesign their executive offices to address the ministry drift. Presidents who can transform the organizations attached to their executive office have additional tools to monitor their ministers’ flexibility. The article argues that the greater the number of ministers in the cabinet from parties different from the president’s, the greater the transformations to the presidential office. Using time-series analysis, hypotheses are tested with an original dataset of organizational changes to the presidential center in Colombia, 1967–2015. The findings indicate that the percentage of ministers from other parties is a good predictor of the transformations undertaken in the executive office of the president.Item type: Item , Editorial(Universidad de Los Andes, 2008) Felipe BoteroItem type: Item , Editorial(Universidad de Los Andes, 2006) Felipe BoteroItem type: Item , ¿Pavimentando con votos? Apropiación presupuestal para proyectos de infraestructura vial en Colombia, 2002-2006(Universidad de Los Andes, 2008) Luis Bernardo Mejía Guinand; Felipe Botero; Juan Carlos Rodríguez‐RagaThis article inquires about the factors that explain budgetary allocations for road infrastructure during the first Uribe administration. Concretely, the analysis contrasts the importance of technical and political criteria in budgetary decisions. The evidence suggests that some political criteria have predominance and that technical criteria have no incidence in the definition of investment on road infrastructure. For our analysis, we created an original data set which allows us to conclude that investment decisions on roads does not respond to the social welfare function and the development model that the administration defined in its own strategic planning. Furthermore, the evidence suggests an effective schism between the administration’s technical advisors and the implementation of its policies. The data shows a positive relationship between spending on roads and holding Consejos Comunales. This finding supports the hypothesis that spending on road infrastructure is a populist measure given that those municipalities in which Consejos Comunales met received an additional $14.1 million vis-à-vis municipalities without such meetings. In the Consejos Comunales the administration commits resources allowing it to secure political support needed to stay in power. Moreover, we conclude that the administration spends more in municipalities whose mayor does not belong to the government coalition, indicating that the use of budgetary priorization as a way to buy political support in those municipalities where it was defeated in the local elections. The municipalities where the coalition won received $2.6 million less in funding than those ruled by mayors of its coalition.Item type: Item , Policymaking in Parochial Legislatures: What Laws Pass the Colombian Legislature?(Wiley, 2012) Claudia N. Avellaneda; Felipe Botero; María C. Escobar-LemmonItem type: Item , PresCab_BASIC_Colombia (2019) - Presidential Cabinets Project(Harvard University, 2019) Luis Bernardo Mejía Guinand; Felipe BoteroPresCab basic data for Colombia (1958-2018)Item type: Item , Item type: Item , PresCab_BASIC_Colombia.tab(Harvard University, 2019) Luis Bernardo Mejía Guinand; Felipe Botero:unavItem type: Item , PresCab_BASIC_Colombia.xls(Harvard University, 2019) Luis Bernardo Mejía Guinand; Felipe Botero:unavItem type: Item , PresCab_BASIC_Colombia_18.r(Harvard University, 2019) Luis Bernardo Mejía Guinand; Felipe Botero:unavItem type: Item , PresCab_BASIC_Colombia_18.xlsx(Harvard University, 2019) Luis Bernardo Mejía Guinand; Felipe Botero:unavItem type: Item , Sebastian Edwards. Left Behind. Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiv + 292 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-18478; 978-0-226-004662, $45.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper).(Cambridge University Press, 2013) Felipe BoteroSebastian Edwards. Left Behind. Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiv + 292 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-18478; 978-0-226-004662, 17.00 (paper). - Volume 14 Issue 4Item type: Item , Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Figures, tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 496 pp.; hardcover $70, paperback $35.(Cambridge University Press, 2013) Felipe BoteroSteven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Figures, tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 496 pp.; hardcover 35. - Volume 55 Issue 1