Abstract

GARCIA ROMERO, Julián Esteban. The Havana Peace Agreement. An Ambitious Institutional Change with a Dubious Strategy. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2019, n.55, pp.182-204. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n55a09.

This research analyses the imbrications among institutional change, conflict, and political power in the Colombian presidential system, taking as a case study the points of the Integral Rural Reform and Political Participation of the Havana Peace Agreement, during the plebiscite for peace and the «Fast Track» implementation in order to approve the law changes in the Congress. The question that guides the analysis is the following: Why do the Havana Peace Agreement implies an institutional change and what are the changes projected by it? The study applies a sociological neo-institutionalism approach, which allows the analysis of the institutions embedded in the culture and social structure. The methodological strategy used is the qualitative case study. The analysis shows that the potential changes in political rules and in the access and use of land must be carefully considered within broader and historically sedimented institutional configurations. The institutional change sought to modify the power arrangements in the institutions; however, their roots in the social structure and culture were not taken into account in order to effect this modification.

Keywords : Political Institutions; Peace Process; Peace Agreement; Political Reform; Agrarian Reform; Colombia.

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