The popular action that protects the collective right to administrative morality is one of the legal instruments provided by the Political Constitution of 1991 that allows citizens access to the administration of justice to exercise control over public power actions, as in those scenarios of corruption within the public administration. In this sense, the objective of this research work is to analyze the legal conceptualization given to administrative morality or public ethics in the international and national context, in the face of popular actions, to understand its conceptual evolution in Colombian jurisprudence and to determine the main substantial and procedural obstacles that arise in the judicial protection of this collective right, in the exercise of the popular action filed before the contentious-administrative jurisdiction.
