%0 Journal Article %T ˋEn qu谷 proporci車n de las decisiones de pol赤tica e inversi車n local en Colombia podr赤an participar los ciudadanos? Hacia la operacionalizaci車n de la autonom赤a territorial %A L赤ppez de Castro %A Sebasti芍n %J Papel Politico %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this article analyzes and corroborates, supported by the local public choice model, the "visi車n colombia ii centenario 2019" arguments used to demonstrate that the colombian decentralization process has been successful and that its future strengthening will have place through an increasing territorial autonomy. following the local public choice model, this paper also proposes an operationalization of the territorial autonomy and the citizen's participation in the decentralization process. the results show that during the period 2000 - 2006, in spite of a slight advance, around 75% of the municipalities have the autonomy to allocate less than 10% of their budgets, which contradicts the position of "visi車n colombia ii centenario 2019" on the decentralization process. %K decentralization %K territorial autonomy %K citizens participation %K local government %K local public choice and "visi車n colombia ii centenario 2019" %K administrative autonomy %K decentralization in government %K citizen participation %K local governmet %K colombia. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0122-44092010000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en