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Language
English (en)
Date of Award
4-10-2012
Author's Department
International and Area Studies
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Restricted/Unrestricted
Restricted
Abstract
Through my research I am seeking to understand how issues of income inequality can be addressed through public policy and how these policies relate to models of political authority and the state. Over the last decade, many Latin American states have developed new strategies of governance, such as the developmentalist and social policy approaches, to address the issue of socioeconomic stratification. I am interested in Bolivia as a case study, given the policy changes that have occurred during the Morales administration. Since taking office in 2006, President Morales has enacted both universal and targeted social policies to address socioeconomic disparities in Bolivia, mainly through the nationalization of hydrocarbons, and the allocation of the subsequent resource revenue to various social policies. This research examines the Juancito Pinto and Renta Dignidad cash transfer programs passed under the MAS-IPSP' administration to evaluate whether Morales’ policies are indicative of a larger paradigm shift in Latin American governance ~ a shift in how authority is claimed politically, how political authority legitimizes itself thereafter, and what poverty-reduction measures are both materially and politically feasible in the Bolivian institutional context. I propose that Morales has assumed a hybrid form of moral and legal charismatic authority through which he legislates equality-minded social policies.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/hae3-np51
Mentor
Brett Gustafson
Recommended Citation
Durana, Alieza, "Morales’ Bolivia: A New Paradigm in Egalitarian Governance?" (2012). Senior Honors Papers / Undergraduate Theses. 143.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/hae3-np51
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