Author(s)

Ángel Emilio Muñoz Cardona¹, María Patricia Mayor López²

¹Superior School in Public Administration of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
²Business Consultant for Tornoplas, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

This research seeks to know how far communal organizations contribute to local development or if on the contrary, they serve to strengthen electoral political campaigns. The research is inductive, and mixed, using the methodology of Focus Group and taking with the model of the Communal Organizations of the Itagui Municipality from Antioquia, Colombia. The study is based on 63 surveys and interviews averaged 50 community leaders of the various sub-locations. The size of total communal organizations from Itagui Municipality is 87, which defines a sample size, n = 63, for a statistical confidence level of α = 90% and a margin of error of e = 5%. The study concludes by affirming the existence of patronage communal organizations and they little form political culture, which implies training social leaders and Community Action Boards (CAB) in public values that serve to strengthen democracy and elaboration of Development Plans with a Territorial Approach.

Communal Organizations, Politics, Political Patronage, Communal Development Plan, Vision and Mission

Muñoz Cardona, Á. and Mayor López, M. (2016) The Community Action Boards in Local Development of Municipality Itagui, Antioquia. Open Journal of Political Science, 6, 145-160. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2016.62014.