Political Institutions and the Evanescence of Power: Making History in Highland Bolivia
Author(s)
Rockefeller, Stuart Alexander
Abstract
Political reform in Bolivia’s Quirpini community has resulted in the establishment of illusory systems of self-governance. The systems, when examined, reveal that community participation is achieved only with the cooperation and/or approval of a neighboring capital, controlled by Bolivia’s Spanish-speaking elite. The systems are therefore a means of dominating the community rather than empowering it.
