New institutionalism, transparency and e-Government: Quality of life in Bogotá and other Colombian cities

Abstract

This article seeks to test the hypothesis, based on the Colombian case study, that an efficient implementation of public policies aimed at deepening and strengthening e-government helps improve the quality of life of the population. This analysis has been carried out under the theoretical umbrella of new institutionalism, new public management and governance, which in turn have decanted in the new millennium in the concepts of open government  and electronic government. For this, a review of the aforementioned conceptual framework has been made, which starts in the seventies with the discontent of society, on the one hand, and on the other with the inability on the part of governments to respond to the social demands that began to mutate and increase in complexity; then, in a second instance, a normative and programmatic account of e-government in Colombia is made, as well as the possible relation of it with the levels of happiness of its population, to finally, in the third part, analyze the case of Bogotá and, in light of the relationship between e-government / quality of life, compare it with other Colombian cities. The methodology used is expository analytics with analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, considering studying the rules of digital government from the end of the last century, passing through national quantitative data, until reaching city-level data regarding digital government and quality of life, having as a main limitation the different temporality of some numerical data.