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Decentralization and Governance: From Authoritarianism to National Dialogue in Bolivia

In: The Local Alternative

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  • Ronald MacLean Abaroa

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Decentralization and economic development are very important issues, but currently in Latin America more focus is given to governability, a more difficult problem to solve, than to economic development. Thus, the present chapter examines decentralization and governability, mainly based on my personal experience as mayor of La Paz, Bolivia. It will also briefly refer to the political-democratic system, to incentives toward decentralization, and to the tensions between representative and participative democracy. It must be taken into account that in Bolivia, the Decentralization Law of 1994 is defined as the Law of Popular Participation (Ley de Participación Popular); that is, the issues of decentralization and popular participation were jointly addressed.

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  • Ronald MacLean Abaroa, 2011. "Decentralization and Governance: From Authoritarianism to National Dialogue in Bolivia," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Rafael Cruz & Carlos Pineda Mannheim & Caroline Pöschl (ed.), The Local Alternative, chapter 21, pages 277-281, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-11964-2_22
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230119642_22
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