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Análisis Político

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SALINAS, Adriana Francisca  and  HUERTAS, Jaime Abel. ANALYSIS OF DECISION MAKING IN THE ECONOMIC COMMISSIONS OF THE COLOMBIAN CONGRESS USING STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL DATA. anal.polit. [online]. 2018, vol.31, n.92, pp.202-228. ISSN 0121-4705.  https://doi.org/10.15446/anpol.v31n92.71108.

This article analyzes the minutes of debates in Colombian Congressional economic commissions pertaining to the national budget during the period from 2002 to 2009 with the objective of identifying relationships between the debating postures of the members involved and their particular individual characteristics. The minutes, literal transcriptions of the debates, were analyzed using statistical textual data techniques recently used for the study of decision making by central bank policy committees, with the results contrasted with the bounded rationality concept posited by Lindblom (1959). Based on the foregoing, among other results it was determined that being an economist or being immersed in a judicial process were seminal factors in the frequency of debate participation and that political affiliation had a specific impact on the nature of members’ interventions.

Keywords : Economic policy; national budget; decisional committees; textual analysis; policy minutes.

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