From Discourses to Policy: Analyzing the Creation of an Accountability Discourse in Colombia

Carolina Isaza

International Journal of Public Administration, 2017, vol. 40, issue 11, 942-953

Abstract: This article analyses the construction of a public discourse about accountability in Colombia. The article maps the different interpretations that actors make of political ideas related to accountability and their change over a period of 13 years (1991–2014). The article has an interpretive framework and uses content and discourse analysis techniques to identify meanings different actors give to the concept of “accountability” and changes in these meanings. It identifies an academic discourse on accountability, as well as external actors’ discourses that influenced the construction of a public and official discourse in Colombia. It concludes by identifying the effect of this process of building consensus about meaning on the resulting public policy.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2016.1210167

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