Legitimacy of proximity: An empirical approach in Barranquilla city

Abstract

In the light of the processes of reconfiguration of the capitalist system in the 1990s (globalization) and the democratic transitions that derive from it, this analysis aims to reveal which constitutive principles of proximity legitimacy characterize the periods of governance 2008- 2011 and 2016-2019 of the administration of Mayor Alejandro Char and in the same line, determine if this new form of governance has created or consolidated some type of participatory device, for decision-making in public affairs of the city. At the same time, it will be determined if the participatory figure of open councils implemented in 2016 by the mayor in question, is configured as a participatory device provided with deliberation, autonomy and co-management between citizenship-State, or if it is reduced to a mere figure consultative by means of which, the public administration is supplied with inputs to legitimize its political performance in the public sphere.