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Democracy at LargeParticipatory Decentralization in Bolivia: The Genealogy of an Institutional Transplant

Democracy at Large: Participatory Decentralization in Bolivia: The Genealogy of an Institutional... [Structural adjustment was particularly radical in Bolivia. From 1985 to 2000, governments of this country applied a veritable shock therapy, privatizing state firms and reforming public administration. As far as the latter was concerned, a process of decentralization was launched in a hitherto particularly centralized country.1 In the eyes of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, Bolivia was then one of the best students of the Latin American class or at least the most assiduous. Faced with the state’s withdrawal from the national economy and its territorial reorganization, agencies of international cooperation and NGOs of all kinds invested heavily in the field. Bolivia became a laboratory for decentralization policies: hundreds of municipalities were created, and an original system of citizens’ participation in local public affairs was implemented. This experience was the result of an entangled intervention of both local and national transnational actors. It then spread to the entire continent as a reference, a “best practice” to follow.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Democracy at LargeParticipatory Decentralization in Bolivia: The Genealogy of an Institutional Transplant

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-44124-2
Pages
125 –145
DOI
10.1057/9781137032768_6
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Abstract

[Structural adjustment was particularly radical in Bolivia. From 1985 to 2000, governments of this country applied a veritable shock therapy, privatizing state firms and reforming public administration. As far as the latter was concerned, a process of decentralization was launched in a hitherto particularly centralized country.1 In the eyes of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, Bolivia was then one of the best students of the Latin American class or at least the most assiduous. Faced with the state’s withdrawal from the national economy and its territorial reorganization, agencies of international cooperation and NGOs of all kinds invested heavily in the field. Bolivia became a laboratory for decentralization policies: hundreds of municipalities were created, and an original system of citizens’ participation in local public affairs was implemented. This experience was the result of an entangled intervention of both local and national transnational actors. It then spread to the entire continent as a reference, a “best practice” to follow.]

Published: Nov 11, 2015

Keywords: International Monetary Fund; Trade Union; Municipal Government; Agrarian Reform; Central Union

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