La carrera administrativa en Colombia: Evolución de los principios rectores y control constitucional

Abstract

The public service of employment in Colombia has had a slow and traumatic evolution, diffuse and speculative normative concepts, analyzed from its beginnings in 1886 up to the current regime established in the Political Constitution of Colombia with the incorporation to a higher rank by the National Assembly Constituent in 1991, and subsequently in compliance with international conventions and treaties that make up our constitutional block. The administrative career as a public function has been subject to a strict control of the Constitutional Court, which, through its jurisprudence has laid strong foundations to incipiently strengthen an efficient and effective system, allowing the implementation of selection and administration processes of human talent subject to the principles of merit and equality, essential for the admission, permanence, promotion and retirement of public employment, essential characteristics for the modernization of public administration and guarantee for the fulfillment of the essential purposes of the State in search of development economic and social of the nation