Bolivia’s New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?

Schilling‐Vacaflor, Almut

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“…In the Bolivian case, this oppositional framing has been expressed as a difficult balance between popular participation and authoritarianism. Given that liberal democratic institutions have long been used by the elite to serve their own interests, some see the authoritarian use of the state to remedy this as an acceptable setting aside of democratic rules (Schilling-Vacaflor 2011). Other formulations suggest instead that populism is internal to democracy, as its redemptive face through which authentic popular will is expressed (Canovan 1999).…”

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“…This brings us back to the central question of this chapter: the possibilities and drawbacks of a strong liberal state. The MAS chose to embrace a model of the state that it felt would give it as much power as possible to accomplish its goals, while protecting its political hegemony (Garcés 2011: 63;Schilling-Vacaflor 2011). The result is a text that is not entirely coherent (Tapia 2010: 157).…”

Section: The Plurinational State C Odifiedmentioning

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The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia

Postero

2017

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The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia

Postero

2017

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“…In Bolivia, Morales's 2009 changes to the constitution included new rights for increased political participation and a recognition of indigenous peoples and their political systems (Kohl ; Schilling‐Vacaflor : 3). However, they also increased the strength of the executive branch, specifically its control over state resources and socioeconomic policy (Postero 2010).…”

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Populism in South America: Democratic Panacea or Pitfall?

Nyenhuis¹

2019

American J Econ Sociol

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Populism has become a buzz word in recent years, used widely by journalists, political pundits, and academics. Much of the discussion presents the global phenomenon as a recent one. However, one version or another has existed in South America for nearly a century. In this article, I put forth a political strategic definition of populism that includes an actor's political style, relationship with followers, political organization, and political history. Using this conceptualization, I score several presidential candidates’ campaign behavior during recent elections, between the years 2011 and 2015. I also consider the democratic consequences of two of the continents’ most visible and longest‐serving populists, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. I examine the change over time in both countrie's political systems regarding the respect for civil liberties and political rights, changes in citizens’ attitudes towards the democratic quality of their respective countries, and the variation in socioeconomic inequality. I conclude with an assessment of each populist's democratic consequence and discuss potential for future research.

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“…It redefines Bolivia as a plurinational state, recognising indigenous peoples as nations. The plurinational state embodies a new form of sovereignty in which the traditional sovereignty of the state co-exists with indigenous ideas of nation and self-determination (Gustafson 2009: 987-88;Schilling-Vacoflor 2011). 9 While the constitution does not itself recognise rights of nature, it paved the way for the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth of 2010, which recognises seven rights of Mother Earth: the rights to life; to the diversity of life; to water; to clean air; to equilibrium; to restoration; and to pollution-free living (Bolivia Law of the Rights of Mother Earth 2010, Article 7).…”

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Rights of Pachamama: The emergence of an earth jurisprudence in the Americas

Humphreys

2016

J Int Relat Dev

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Earth jurisprudence represents an alternative approach to the law based on the belief that nature has rights. In this view, a river has the right to flow, species have the right to continue to exist in the wild, and ecosystems have the right to adapt and evolve over time. Proponents of Earth jurisprudence argue that, by treating nature as exploitable resources, contemporary legal systems actively promote environmental harms. Recognising rights of nature, they argue, will transform core values and inspire social changes that promote economic development which respects nature's limits. Since 2006, rights of nature have been recognised by some sub-federal public bodies in the United States and by the governments of Ecuador and Bolivia. This paper sets out to answer two questions. First, what explains the legal recognition of rights of nature in Ecuador and Bolivia? Second, what factors impede a wider adoption and implementation of Earth jurisprudence? Amongst the constraints, it will be argued, is that Ecuador and Bolivia continue to pursue an extractivist economic development model, with assertions of national sovereignty over natural resources tending to prevail over Earth jurisprudence and environmental conservation.

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Bolivia’s New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia

The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia

Populism in South America: Democratic Panacea or Pitfall?

Rights of Pachamama: The emergence of an earth jurisprudence in the Americas

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