Después de la Independencia, la organización administrativa del Estado Colombiano fue rápida y su incursión en un modelo internacional de corte liberal y capitalista fue inmediata; sin embargo, la escisión del Estado colonial no fue radical en razón a que sobrevivieron algunos elementos del caduco sistema monárquico. En consecuencia, el enfrentamiento entre lo moderno y lo decadente se impuso ante una posible concertación ideológica que diera norte al proceso, para dar paso a quienes se resistían a perder los beneficios heredados del antiguo régimen. Así las cosas, en la defensa de estos beneficios, surge la corrupción administrativa en los tempranos años de vida republicana.Despite the rapid organization of the Colombian state after the independence wars, the incorporation of Colombia into the international model of the nation state was practically immediate. Throughout the independence process, the rupture with the colonial state was not radical. On the contrary, many elements of the colonial state have persisted and can be found in contemporary Colombia. This clash between the emergence of a modern state and the decadency of the monarchical rule encumbered the ideological agreement which may have led the nation to an appropriate state building process. Interests groups emerged after independence and my of them were reluctant to give up the privileges that they were granted during the colonial rule. As a result, the state administration operated – on several occasions- under unequal and unethical principles. Administrative corruption has been entrenched in Colombia’s state administration; it can be argued that corruption dates back to the origins of the republic
