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Backlash in Bolivia: Regional Autonomy as a Reaction against Indigenous Mobilization

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  • Kent Eaton

    (University of California, Santa Cruz, keaton@ucsc.edu)

Abstract

In the 1990s, Bolivia’s indigenous population mobilized to claim new political roles, and in the process, directly challenged the privileged position of economic elites within national political institutions. In response, business associations in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s most prosperous region, began to demand regional autonomy—in contrast to the demand for authoritarianism that characterized prior generations of business elites when confronted with threatening political change. After examining Santa Cruz’ past relationship with the national government, this article explores the challenges that led economic elites in the department to seek autonomy and the strategies that they have adopted in pursuit of this goal.

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  • Kent Eaton, 2007. "Backlash in Bolivia: Regional Autonomy as a Reaction against Indigenous Mobilization," Politics & Society, , vol. 35(1), pages 71-102, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:35:y:2007:i:1:p:71-102
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329206297145
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    1. Naqvi, Natalya, 2019. "Renationalizing finance for development: policy space and public economic control in Bolivia," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 104232, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    4. Fairfield, Tasha, 2013. "Going Where the Money Is: Strategies for Taxing Economic Elites in Unequal Democracies," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 42-57.
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    6. Fairfield, Tasha, 2013. "Going where the money is: strategies for taxing economic elites in unequal democracies," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 49828, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    7. Jonas Frank, 2010. "Towards a Fiscal Pact : The Political Economy of Decentralization in Bolivia," World Bank Publications - Reports 12737, The World Bank Group.
    8. Benjamin Goldfrank & Andrew Schrank, 2009. "Municipal Neoliberalism and Municipal Socialism: Urban Political Economy in Latin America," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(2), pages 443-462, June.
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