ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the crisis of market democracy and the emergence of outsider Evo Morales in Bolivia. The nature of the shallowing and narrowing of democracy, the development of an unstable democratic equilibrium, the form and extent of anti-neoliberal protests, party-system collapse, the coalescence of competing social blocs around divergent democratic models, and the nature of outsider-base relations are examined. The chapter concludes by raising questions regarding how such antecedent factors set the scene for, and fed back onto, post-election power struggles between the left-led government, an opposition bloc, and the popular base.
