1. El hiperpresidencialismo colombiano y el Acuerdo de Paz de la Habana.
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Botero-Bernal, Andrés and Cajas-Sarria, Mario Alberto
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PRESIDENTIAL system , *PEACEBUILDING , *CONSTITUTIONAL reform , *HISTORICISM - Abstract
This article exposes how Colombian constitutional historicism or traditionalism has been marked by hyper-presidentialism. Although the 1991 Constitution imposed a moderate presidentialism as an alternative to the historicism, hyper-presidentialism returned through constitutional reforms and traditional political practices, especially in the Uribe [2002-2010] and Santos [2010-2018] government mandates. Such accumulation of power in President Santos, organized by several previous governments, allowed him to advance a peace process with the FARC guerrilla against many sectors that have rejected a negotiated solution to the armed conflict. Nevertheless, this paper asks if it is worth betting on accumulating so much power in one person, even though in this case served laudable ends from a pacifist perspective, given that the risks of hyper-presidentialism are very elevated for a republican democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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