Abstract
By the accomplishment of functions of accumulation,legitimation and maintenance ofconfidence, the fiscal policy guarantees thereproduction of capitalists social relations in acontext of relative social harmony. This is thecase in Colombia, where an historical analysiswill allow identifying the configuration of awar-assistencialist and confidence State thatuses different ways of repression and socialcontainment in order to reproduce the prevailingorder. In this context, the structural origin of thefiscal deficit in Colombia has a deep relation withthe consolidation of neoliberal order, the persistenceof the armed conflict and the expansion of the assistencialist model of social policy. Onlydeep transformations in those processes wouldchange the problems that government has facedsince 1990.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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