Impasse in Bolivia Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance

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This book explores the tensions between markets, democracy, neoliberalism, state restructuring and citizenship. In this regard, the balance of citizen rights has been shifted away from providing citizens with social rights to privileging the property rights of private, mostly transnational, firms.Bolivian Stalematethrows light on the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition in country after country in Latin America to the currently fashionable, internationally prescribed economic development strategy of neoliberalism.

Tables and map

vii

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

xii

Introduction: entre fiestas y bloqueos

(10)

between fiestas and blockades

1 Neoliberal globalization: the challenge of maintaining hegemony

(23)

Neoliberalism

(3)

Neoliberalism in practice: structural adjustment and the Washington Consensus

(4)

Neoliberalism as a hegemonic system

(3)

Market democracy

(3)

Neoliberalism and the state

(2)

Resistance to neoliberalism and challenges to hegemony

(4)

2 From Francisco de Toledo to Jeffrey Sachs

(26)

Reshaping the Andes: the Spanish invasion

(3)

Republican heritage: the legacy of liberalism

(3)

The resurgence of silver and the rise of tin

(2)

The Chaco War and the 1952 revolution

(5)

Military rule

(4)

Return to civilian rule and economic crisis

(3)

Global pressure and local response

(3)

3 The neoliberal incursion: structural adjustment and the New Economic Policy

(24)

Bolivia's economy before neoliberalism

(3)

The New Economic Policy and Presidential Decree 21060

(105)

Impacts of the NEP, 1985-93

170

Constructing hegemony: cocaine, contraband, the informal economy and remittances

(2)

Constructing hegemony: debilitating the COB

(2)

Constructing hegemony: NGOs and the Church

(2)

The MIR-ADN coalition, 1989-93

(1)

Conclusions

(4)

4 Reinventing Bolivia: the Plan de Todos

(19)

Citizenship

(2)

Deepening citizenship rights: constitutional reform

(2)

Civil rights: agrarian and judicial reform

(1)

Political rights: popular participation and administrative decentralization

(2)

Social rights: education reform

(2)

Social and economic rights: privatization and the Law of Capitalization

(2)

Social responses to the new laws

(1)

Four years restructuring Bolivia: 'If-then' policies in 'Yes-but' environments'

100

(3)

5 Privatization Bolivian-style

103

(22)

Privatization and the practice of neoliberalism

105

(2)

Privatization and capitalization in Bolivia

107

(2)

Implementation

109

(2)

Impacts

111

(5)

New opportunities for rent-seeking

116

(4)

Social responses to capitalization

120

(1)

The Bolivian economy after capitalization

121

(1)

Conclusions

122

(3)

6 Municipal reform, social movements and new electoral politics

125

(24)

Decentralization, participation and development

127

(3)

Bolivia's Law of Popular Participation (LPP)

130

(2)

New roles for local actors

132

(5)

Impacts of the LPP

137

(8)

Conclusions

145

(4)

7 The neoliberal wars: water, taxes and gas

149

(30)

The setting

150

(3)

Reformulating opposition in the 1990's

153

(9)

The water war: a turning point

162

(5)

Campesino uprisings, April and September 2000

167

(2)

The rise of the landless campesino movement

169

(1)

The political success of the MAS

170

(2)

The tax war

172

(1)

The gas war

173

(2)

Conclusions

175

(4)

8 Global trends and local responses: contesting neo-liberalism

179

(18)

Neoliberal hegemony: fractured, fragmented and mutilated

180

(6)

Nationalist challenges to global neoliberal hegemony

186

(1)

Going global: challenges in constructing an anti-neoliberal discourse

187

(3)

Limitations of national resistance movements in a global market

190

(2)

Conclusions

192

(5)

Appendix

197

(2)

References

199

(29)

Index

228

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