Towards Democratic Viability

JOHN CRABTREE is an independent researcher and writer on Latin America and was Latin America editor at Oxford Analytica from 1985-1998. He is the author of Peru under Alan Garcia: An Opportunity Lost (1992), editor of Fujimori's Peru: The Political Economy (1998) and co-author of The Great Tin Crash (1991). - LAURENCE WHITEHEAD is an Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College Oxford. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Latin America Studies and series editor of the Oxford Studies on Democratization. He first published on Bolivia in 1960s and has written numerous articles and other contributions since then.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART ONE: CONTEXT The Viability of Democracy; L.Whitehead The Emergence of Democracy in Bolivia; L.Whitehead Economic Vulnerabilty in Bolivia; J.A.Morales PART TWO: POVERTY AND EXCLUSION Exclusion, Participation and Democratic State Building; G.Gray-Molina Rural Poverty and Development; J.Munoz Technology and Rural Productivity; D.S.de Lozada & C.Valenzuela Human Development in a Multi-ethnic Society; F.Ruiz-Mier PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS AND RESPONSES Party Politics, Intermediation and Representation; P.Domingo The Private Sector and Democratisation; H.G.Lopez Legal Security in Bolivia; E.R.Veltzé Accountability in the Transition of Democracy; A.S.de Lozada Conclusions Index

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