72 Citations
Pitfalls of power to the people: Decentralization, local government performance, and system support in Bolivia
- Political Science
- 2003
Across the developing world, many governments have implemented political reforms—heavily promoted by international donors—designed to transfer greater power to subnational levels of government and to…
Dilemmas of Contemporary Political Representation in Bolivia: Social Movements, Party, and State in Plurinational Times
- Political Science
- 2018
Living a novel political stability under the hegemony of a party (MAS) which constitutes its identity largely by the negation of its own partisan nature and by declaring itself a mere political…
In the Shadow of the past Political Learning and Boom-Time Restraint in Evo Morales's Bolivia (2006-2013)
- Economics
- 2017
This paper seeks to explain why the government of Evo Morales exhibited significant economic restraint during the commodity boom. Frequently put into the same “radical left” category as Hugo Chávez…
Business Power and the Politics of Postneoliberalism: Relations Between Governments and Economic Elites in Bolivia and Ecuador
- Political ScienceLatin American Politics and Society
- 2016
Abstract The article analyzes and compares the dynamics of business-government relations in Bolivia and Ecuador during the presidencies of Evo Morales and Rafael Correa. It specifically traces the…
Los dilemas de la representación política contemporánea en Bolivia: movimientos sociales, partido y Estado en tiempos de 'Proceso de Cambio' The dilemmas of political representation in contemporary Bolivia: social movements, party and State under the 'Process of Change'
- Political Science
- 2015
Living a new age of political stability under the hegemony of a party (MAS) that builds its identity to a great extent by denying its classification as a political party and declaring itself to be a…
Mixed-Member Election and Candidate Selection in Bolivia’s 1993 and 1997 Elections
- Political Science
- 2015
Abstract:Mixed-member electoral systems became a popular choice for “electoral engineers” in the 1990s. Countries as diverse as Venezuela, Hungary, Lesotho, and Italy adopted the system. The…
Latin America’s left turn: el factor indígena the role of indigenous social movements in Latin America’s left turn
- Political Science
- 2014
This thesis examines the emergence of the left in Latin America at the turn of the century. In particular, it examines Latin America’s ‘left turn’ in light of the mobilisation of indigenous social…
Conditioning Descriptive Representation: Institutional Moderation of Unique Group Perspectives in Legislative Debates
- Psychology
- 2013
Conditioning Descriptive Representation: Institutional Moderation of Unique Group Perspectives in Legislative Debates
Coping by Colluding
- Political Science
- 2013
Democracy forces political elites to compete for power in elections, but it also often presses them to share power after the electoral dust has settled. At times these powersharing arrangements prove…
Towards Post-Liberal Democracy in Latin America? A Conceptual Framework Applied to Bolivia
- Political Science
- 2013
Recent political changes across Latin America that challenge mainstream conceptions of liberal democracy have led to speculation about some kind of post-liberal democracy possibly emerging in the…
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