ADMINISTRATIVE MORALITY IN COLOMBIA: JURISPRUDENTIAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

State corruption is one of the problems currently affecting public administration, a situation that justifies studying administrative morality as a principle of administrative function and as a collective right. This article addresses this issue in the context of Colombia and aims to examine the treatment and development of administrative morality by the Constitutional Court through jurisprudence. The debate revolves around the hypothesis that administrative morality implies that public servants and private individuals exercising administrative functions must strictly adhere to the mandate of the law and refrain from diverting the general interest, as citizens have the right to good public administration.

Methodologically, the text is grounded in the interpretive paradigm, and the study is approached through the documentary method, based on theoretical and conceptual references regarding administrative morality. The deliberation concludes that the Constitutional Court of Colombia has conducted a rigorous analysis of different constitutional scenarios, enforcing administrative morality to provide an optimal solution where the fundamental rights of the involved individuals are not compromised or violated, whether through the actions or omissions of public servants or private individuals performing administrative functions.