Fragmented State Capacity: External Dependencies, Subnational Actors, and Local Public Services in Bolivia

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Marco Just Quiles offers new perspectives on how domestic and external factors interact to shape variations in local state capacity. Using Bolivia as a case, he applies quantitative and qualitative methods to decode the nexus between global interdependencies, subnational bargaining processes, and diverging configurations of public service provision at the local level. Relying in part on newly compiled indicators, the author presents the ways in which shifting distributional coalitions between regional elites, central governments and their connections with international markets in different periods of the last century have produced the contemporary fragmentation of stateness in Bolivia. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Introduction (Marco Just Quiles)....Pages 1-25 Theorizing Fragmented State Capacity (Marco Just Quiles)....Pages 27-70 Contemporary Public Service Variations in Bolivia (Marco Just Quiles)....Pages 71-118 Tracing the Origins of Fragmented State Capacity in Bolivia (Marco Just Quiles)....Pages 119-211 Fragmented State Capacity in Four Typical Bolivian Municipalities (Marco Just Quiles)....Pages 213-276 Conclusion: Fragmented State Capacity (Marco Just Quiles)....Pages 277-289 Back Matter ....Pages 291-344