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Between Legitimation and Decentralisation: Explaining the Rise of a Plurinational State with Autonomies in 21st Century Bolivia

Between Legitimation and Decentralisation: Explaining the Rise of a Plurinational State with Autonomies in 21st Century Bolivia
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Author(s): Gustavo Xavier Bonifaz (The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 41
Source title: Theoretical Foundations and Discussions on the Reformation Process in Local Governments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ugur Sadioglu (Hacettepe University, Turkey)and Kadir Dede (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0317-0.ch017

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Abstract

The present paper aims at answering why a country that shared, with other Latin American states, a centralist tradition that was even strengthened in the aftermath of its 1952 revolution, became one of the most radical and complex decentralisers in the region. The present is a country case study in which, using a process-tracing analysis, the evolution of decentralisation in Bolivia will be explained up to its current complex structure from a perspective of the relationship between political legitimation under competitive elections and the way in which the party system processed longstanding tensions between the state and different segments of society.

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