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Elusive Demodiversity in Bolivia: Between Representation, Participation, and Self-Government

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Nearly 30 years into the uninterrupted process of democratization in Bolivia, marked by successive episodes of political-institutional reform, a new adjective has come into use to describe its form of government: “intercultural democracy.” This label captures the three types of democracy—representative, direct-and-participatory, and communitarian— each of which is given equal recognition in the reconfigured regime that has emerged from the recent constituent process. The model of the state that underpins this regime remains unitary, but is evolving toward a set of plurinational institutions with recognition of indigenous autonomy.

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Maxwell A. Cameron Eric Hershberg Kenneth E. Sharpe

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Rodríguez, J.L.E. (2012). Elusive Demodiversity in Bolivia: Between Representation, Participation, and Self-Government. In: Cameron, M.A., Hershberg, E., Sharpe, K.E. (eds) New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270580_9

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