Throughout Latin America the conservative terms established at the outset of
democratization, which often limited the scope of democracy for the preservation of stability,
have been exhausted. Coinciding with the emergence of the Latin American left, the initial
terms of democracy are being redefined through the reconstitution of the state and the
renegotiation of the role of the state in the economy. These phenomena are presently and
precipitously unfolding in Bolivia. Bolivia’s failure to establish substantively democratic
institutions resulted in a political-economy orientation incongruent to the preferences of the
electorate. The electorate was forced to push their interests by means of increasingly assertive
social movements, which coalesced, forming viable leftist party alternatives. Seeking to redefine
the parameters of the state, the actualization of the left’s nationalization agenda reversed
decades-old policies of privatization that had been maintained through pacted executive
legislative relations. In redefining Bolivian democracy, the left has confronted a resistant
opposition, which has thrust the country into a political impasse, the outcome of which has yet to
be determined.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/4178 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | McElroy, Katherine |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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