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Bogota: The (unusual) Politics of Local Service Delivery

Bogota: The (unusual) Politics of Local Service Delivery. Political Economy of Service Delivery Fernando Rojas, IDB IDB-World Bank Joint Seminar Washington, June 3rd, 2005. Features of Bogota Governance and Government 1996-2004. Better services Sound Fiscal Management

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Bogota: The (unusual) Politics of Local Service Delivery

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  1. Bogota: The (unusual) Politics of Local Service Delivery Political Economy of Service Delivery Fernando Rojas, IDB IDB-World Bank Joint Seminar • Washington, June 3rd, 2005

  2. Features of Bogota Governance and Government 1996-2004 • Better services • Sound Fiscal Management • Apparent continuity in public policies • Transparency and accountability • Individual leadership at the top • Consolidation of institutional development • Movilization of private sector, civil society

  3. Why Bogota? Why not other cities? A quick and dirty factor analysis • Not the weak, changing national political and institutional environment • Not local traditions: Clientelist Local Council; improperly absorbed migration • Not a booming economy • Not a stimulating decentralization framework • Fiscal consolidation had already started (1994-1995) • By exclusion: THE RESIDUAL FACTOR

  4. What was new in Bogota’s Leadership • Two leadership profiles: • The Doer: mobilization by doing (investing and improving services) • The Communicator: mobilization by changing people’s behavior • From abstract, ideal-normative concepts to internal leverages of individuals • Theory adapted to/at the service of the changing nature of society

  5. From theory to practice: A new agenda for citizens’ engagement • Deciphering the changing logics of social struggle in contemporary megalopolis: not reducible to class struggle • From fragmentation to a common struggle: social groups empowered to develop new norms of action resulting from the repeated experience of suffering injustice • The city government as a leading social actor: • raises normative claims against disrespect, lack of recognition • Promotes culture of engagement in order to recover the possibility of theoretically guided political practice • Communication to promote a (common) construction of a critical perspective on social structures • Intangible, creative, dispersed, trial/error leadership

  6. How to account for/ensure continuity? Building upon predecessor’s achievements • An unplanned sequence: • 1996-98 From fiscal sustainability path to communication games for refreshing city political life and enhancing credibility • 1999-01 From communication into action • 2002-04 Further institutionalization of a city that invites culture to nurture common political agendas

  7. Is Bogota Replicable? • Bogota random sequence indicates need of a balance between traditional good management and TGM+communication of abstract ideals • Bogota exemplifies potential of mega-cities with little or no social capital • Cloning the leadership factor? Any role for training in deciphering the logics of social struggle in fast-growing megalopolis?

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