Institutional incorporation of the periphery in Colombia: Decentralization, royalties, and the National Plan of Consolidation

This paper starts from the analysis presented in the book “The states of the country. Municipal institutions and local realities”(2011) in order to analyze, with a less academic approach and more of a public policy recommendation, three processes of state formation in Colombia: the decentralization process, the impact of royalties in the municipalities, and the National Territorial Consolidation Plan currently being implemented in some parts of the country.