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Bolivia at the Crossroads: Politics, Economy, and Environment in a Time of Crisis

From democracy to an ochlocratic intermission: the 2009 Constitution in the Bolivian pendulum Historical development and the challenges facing constitutional order in Bolivia The Constitution of 2009 Crisis: a new constitutional moment The constitutional derailment of 2019 and the 2020 elections, a new episode Conclusion Notes Protest State and street politics: Bolivian social movements in the 2019–2020 crisis Democracy, social movements and ‘protest State’The government of social movements The fall of Morales and the Añez government Conclusion Notes Crisis time, class formation and the end of Evo Morales Theory, history and temporalities: thinking with René Zavaleta Sociedades Abigarradas and crisis as method Socio-economic composition of crisis Competing narratives and social blocs Conclusion Notes Continuity and change in Bolivian land politics and policy The unfinished agrarian revolution GMOs: the roots of fascism?Indigenous autonomies Amazon on fire?The coup regime Futures of policy and movement Notes Lithium and vivir bien: Sovereignty and transition The Bolivian Wonder The Bolivian lithium project Lithium, geopolitics, and coup d’etat Conclusion

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Political Economy at a Crossroads
The decline of this paradigm coincided with the rise of digital communications and an associated dismantling of information control (McNair, 2006). Digital utopianists place emphasis on the exponential growth of decentralised and de-territorialised networks of communication, the spread of multiway and...
(Managing Media Firms and Industries)
Macro and microeconomics are on the same level of generality with political economy (without identifying with it).
What is essential in understanding our book also refers on how to develop and explore concepts. Each concept of the whole economy and each conceptual structure part Macroeconomics' own conceptual structure is different from that of microeconomic and political economy. shall be developed within a...
(Macroeconomics)
Resources and Perspectives from Media Political Economy
Justin Schlosberg The existence of media management studies as a delineated field of scholarly inquiry rests on an inherent conceptual tension. Management studies have traditionally been goal oriented towards identifying the structures and practices that maximise a firm's capacity to survive...
(Managing Media Firms and Industries)
Political Economy Roots
Political economy is the study of the relationship between economic structures and processes on the one hand and the production of values and power in society on the other. When applied to the media, political economic accounts tend to examine the impact on media output of industry structure and ownership...
(Managing Media Firms and Industries)
Political Economy of Economic Growth
Revisiting the African Economic Growth Agenda: Focus on Inclusive and Pro-poor Growth? Abstract This paper determines whether the recent growth trajectory in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been inclusive and pro-poor and discusses potential policies in making growth more inclusive. The motivation...
(Accelerated Economic Growth in West Africa)
The Political Economy of Reforms
The political economy of subsidy reforms in Morocco has been driven largely by the global prices of strategic commodities and by the increasing cost of subsidies to the state’s budget. From an equalization fund with own resources sufficient to conduct its mission of stabilizing prices of basic commodities...
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)
The Political Economy of Reforms
Attempts at subsidy reforms were made during the decade that preceded the revolution, but they did not last. In the early 2000s, following the removal of international sanctions, Libya embarked on a reform path to modernize and open up its economy (Vandewalle 2011), and cutting subsidies seems to have...
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)
The Political Economy of Reforms
The simulations indicate that the current subsidy system provides valuable assistance to the poor, but at the same time are prorich and inefficient. Eliminating subsidies and compensating the poor and vulnerable with a direct cash transfer would be a more effective form of social protection. Subsidy...
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)
The Political Economy of Reforms
Once adopted, subsidies are hard to remove. Usually countries have to conduct reform by piecemeal changes with constant reversals. Fear of loss of economic rents and political power are common factors behind reluctance to reform subsidies (Commander 2012). The Republic of Yemen was not an exception....
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)
The Political Economy of Reforms
Following the previous section where we looked at the impacts of the proposed reforms, here we examine the safety nets in place in Djibouti and attempt to estimate the effect of compensating schemes to offset perverse effects on poverty. Fuel Subsidies The government is currently considering abandoning...
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)