RIGHTING FINANCE: Democratizing development takes more than political rights: Assessing Bolivia’s experience

Democratizing development takes more than political rights: Assessing Bolivia’s experience JAVIER GOMEZ ⋅ AUGUST 13, 2013 ⋅  For Bolivia – and generally the rest of Latin America—the demands for economic and social inclusion during the 1960s and 70s were associated to the struggle for greater political participation and the transition to democratic government. Therefore, social organizations devoted their energy to fighting dictatorships, considering that political rights and democratic openness would bring as a consequence the much-awaited economic democratization and the improvements in life standards for the whole population. But political participation in democracy through voting (but delegated in terms of representation to the monopoly of...