Draft Outline
Chapter I Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
- Literature Review
- Democracy, Democratization, and Democratic Consolidation
- Democracy and Political Institutions
- Democracy and Imagined Communities
- Research Question, Hypotheses, Data and Method
- What Explains Bolivia’s Democratic Stability Until 2003 and Its Subsequent Breakdown?
- Hypotheses
- Data and Method
- Limitations on the Dataset
- The Structure of the Study
Chapter II An Overview of Parliamentarized Presidentialism
- The Presidential-Parliamentary Debate Revisited
- Presidentialism
- Parliamentarism
- Mixed Systems
- Bolivia’s Institutional Design
- Joint-List Party Ballot
- Legislative Election of the Executive
- The Change from List-PR to MMP
Chapter III Transition to Democracy
- The Difficult Road to Democracy (1978-82)
- The Siles Zuazo Government (1982-1985)
- The First Democratic Election
- The 1985 Campaign
- Election Results and MNR-ADN Dominance
- Legislative Election of the President
- The Unsteady MNR-ADN Partnership
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter IV Early Parliamentarized Presidentialism
- The First Coalition Government
- The 1989 Campaign
- Election Results and the Three-Way Race
- Coalition-Building and Legislative Election of the President
- The Start of the Bipolar Multiparty System
- The First Multiparty Coalition
- The 1993 Campaign
- Election Results and the Two-Way Race
- Coalition-Building in the Context of New Parties
- The Emerging Multiparty System
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter V Later Parliamentarized Presidentialism
- The 1994 Reforms to Bolivia’s Political System
- The Introduction of Municipal Elections
- The Change to Mixed-Member Proportional Electoral System
- Implications
- The Last Hurrah of the Traditional Parties
- The 1997 Campaign
- Election Results and the Fragmented Electorate
- Coalition-Building with Populist Parties
- The New Multiparty System
- The Collapse of the Traditional Party System
- The 2002 Campaign
- Election Results and the Collapse of the Traditional Parties
- The Artificial Coalition
- The October 2003 “Guerra del Gas”
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter VI Conclusions and Limitations of the Study
- Summary of Findings
- Important Considerations for “Constitutional Engineers”
- Limitations of the Study
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NOTES: The subsections w/in Chapters III-IV follow a basic pattern. Each election is taken individually and analyzed the same way: a) content analysis of campaign rhetoric, b) electoral data analysis, c) cabinet-level analysis, and d) an overview (or snapshot) of Bolivian politics following the election.
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