2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.0261-3050.2006.00161.x
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Stones on the Road: The Politics of Participation and the Generation of Crisis in Bolivia

Abstract: This paper demonstrates that recent protests in Bolivia must be linked to the failure of efforts to improve democratic participation in the country. It argues that such failures can be traced to a history of prejudices in national development and society and persistent biases and contradictions within international development policy and institutions. Despite these obstacles, the paper concludes that ideas for appropriate development and realistic alternatives for change to government and democracy are visible… Show more

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“…However, in spite of these regulatory proposals there is no one specific instrument that facilitates binding community participation. In the face of economic interests that remain opposed to such an initiative, and given the pressure from international institutions such as the WTO to not impose additional specific national regulations on firms (McNeish, ), the Bolivian state has been reticent to make progress in this direction. This tendency was made explicit in the interview with the president of COMIBOL:
Consultation is not just for seeing if the mine operation starts or not.
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Section: Bolivian Mining: Between National Economic Growth and Local mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, in spite of these regulatory proposals there is no one specific instrument that facilitates binding community participation. In the face of economic interests that remain opposed to such an initiative, and given the pressure from international institutions such as the WTO to not impose additional specific national regulations on firms (McNeish, ), the Bolivian state has been reticent to make progress in this direction. This tendency was made explicit in the interview with the president of COMIBOL:
Consultation is not just for seeing if the mine operation starts or not.
…”
Section: Bolivian Mining: Between National Economic Growth and Local mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…El mecanismo causal se puede esquematizar de la siguiente manera: la difusión de un "frame patrió-tico" puede provocar una sustantiva pérdida de reputación de la coalición de gobierno, es decir, un deterioro de la imagen pública del gobierno y sus aliados, perceptible aunque no necesariamente reducida únicamente a los valores de popularidad. Si el gobierno persiste con el comportamiento encuadrado como "poco patriótico", se incrementan los costos de reputación, incentivando con ello la defección de los políticos oficialistas elegidos popularmente (parlamentarios y gobierno), lo que redunda en la reducción y eventualmente desaparición del Winset doméstico(3:68) 20 . En la medida en que un enmarque estratégico como el patriótico traslada parte importante de la discusión política a un nivel normativo 21 , de poco sirven las justificaciones pragmáticas -como los beneficios 20 Es esperable que un gobierno adecue forzosamente su comportamiento a la conducta normativa correspondiente a la identidad colectiva movilizada.…”
Section: Breve Reseña De Las Negociaciones Por Un Gaseoductounclassified
“…Si el gobierno persiste con el comportamiento encuadrado como "poco patriótico", se incrementan los costos de reputación, incentivando con ello la defección de los políticos oficialistas elegidos popularmente (parlamentarios y gobierno), lo que redunda en la reducción y eventualmente desaparición del Winset doméstico(3:68) 20 . En la medida en que un enmarque estratégico como el patriótico traslada parte importante de la discusión política a un nivel normativo 21 , de poco sirven las justificaciones pragmáticas -como los beneficios 20 Es esperable que un gobierno adecue forzosamente su comportamiento a la conducta normativa correspondiente a la identidad colectiva movilizada. El ajuste del gobierno, al menos en un primer paso, no obedece necesariamente a un proceso de aprendizaje, sino más bien se trata de un mero cálculo estratégico para maximizar sus intereses ante el aumento de los costos previstos originalmente(44:809), de forma de evitar las sanciones sociales (social sanctioning) (45:557).…”
Section: Breve Reseña De Las Negociaciones Por Un Gaseoductounclassified
“…Especially now -in a highly tense, rapidly changing and conflictive Bolivian context -this paper aims to add to an understanding of the space available to Bolivian (future) teachers and factors underlying the choices teachers make in order to change things in a positive way, meaning counteracting processes of violent conflict yet promoting 'positive forms of conflict '. 5 Bolivia's conflictive context: diversity, inequality and societal tensions Bolivia, situated right in the heart of South America, has struggled since independence in 1825 to create internal cohesion and a national identity in the face of significant ethnic and geographic diversity (for interesting accounts of Bolivian history see Malaver and Oostra 2003;Morales 2004;Kohl and Farthing 2006;McNeish 2006;Brienen 2007). As a result of major socio-economic inequalities, there has recently been an 'indigenous awakening' in Bolivia, but also in Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and to a lesser extend in Peru (Canessa 2006, 242;Zoomers 2006Zoomers , 1043Baud 2007).…”
Section: Theoretical Foundationsmentioning
confidence: 99%