Keywords
Constitutional Court
narrative
factual scenarios
formalization
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Abstract
Although the reference to law on public policy theory is scarce, legal interest in this topic has increased in Colombia in recent years. One reasonfor this connection is the repetitive reference to the concept of public policy in constitutional jurisprudence. The aim of this paper is to reconstructthe narrative of the Colombian ConstitutionalCourt about the notion of public policy since the promulgation of the 1991 Constitution until 2013. The approach to accomplish this task is the narrative analysis of public policy which is addressed primarily by Emery Roe (1994). The reconstruction of such narrative takes place in two stages: first, I explore different scenarios in which the Court refers to public policy in its narrative. Second, I analyze the formal aspect of the narrative, that is, the different ways how the Court understands the public policies and what is the legal form that these policies should take.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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