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The Social Construction of a Public Problem: The Role of the Ombudsman in Building Institutions for Extractive Conflict

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Resource Booms and Institutional Pathways

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This chapter explores institutional changes that developed in Peru with the explosion of civil unrest related to extractive industry expansion. The chapter explains that extractive laws were modernized, but the opposition of strong extractive interest and weak grassroots actors prevented the building of meaningful institutions of local participation and consultation. The authors argue that the state had to acknowledge the public agenda of building these institutions little by little. In this gradual process, the Ombudsman’ Office, became a crucial and authoritative actor driving the agenda of institutional development to manage the cost of conflict created by the commodity boom.

The authors thank Alba Granados for her assistance on this research, which was greatly valuable in the culmination of this project.

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Paredes, M., de la Puente, L. (2017). The Social Construction of a Public Problem: The Role of the Ombudsman in Building Institutions for Extractive Conflict. In: Dargent, E., Orihuela, J., Paredes, M., Ulfe, M. (eds) Resource Booms and Institutional Pathways. Latin American Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53532-6_5

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