ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how the Bolivian process moved through a period of progressive centralization toward regressive centralization over Evo Morales’ first presidencies. Despite initial successes in boosting popular sector incorporation, the chapter discusses how Morales sought to weaken the power of contestatory organizations. Such party-base tensions arose due to the government’s incapacity to overcome the opposition-bloc’s resistance to more radical elements of the post-neoliberal project.
