In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are interrelated. The new constitution of 2009, a prime example of the “new Andean constitutionalism,” defines Bolivia as a representative, participatory and communitarian democracy. It incorporates enhanced mechanisms and institutions for participatory democracy. Moreover, new social rights have been anchored in the constitution and a plurinational state is supposed to be constructed. The article raises the question of whether the new constitution will change the relations between state and civil society considerably and whether a new democratic model is being established in Bolivia. I argue that there are many limiting factors when ...
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While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of a...
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Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both nation...
Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideolo...
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of ...
The literature on institutional determinants of intra‐state violence commonly asserts that the...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
Bolivia and Chile live in a culture of rivalry as a consequence of the Nitrate War (1879‐1883)...
This paper builds on institutional analysis to generate new conclusions about the economic viability...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...
While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of a...
This paper analyzes the declining importance of political parties in the Central African Republic (C...
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post‐conflict Algeria. While the bloody...
This paper studies the oil‐violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consid...
This paper argues that the question of food (in)security in the Democratic People’s Republic of Kore...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
At the beginning of the 21st century, fragile statehood has become a defining issue for development ...
Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both nation...
Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideolo...
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of ...