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2019 | Book

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Fragmented State Capacity

External Dependencies, Subnational Actors, and Local Public Services in Bolivia

Author: Dr. Marco  Just Quiles

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" , Springer Professional "Technik"

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About this book

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction
Abstract
The capacity of the state to effectively implement a set of basic public services across its territory has become a fundamental aspect of stateness (Mann 1984, Soifer and Vom Hau 2008, Ziblatt 2008, Soifer 2015). Providing public goods such as education, health care, water or electricity services constitutes a substantial pillar within the modern understanding of the proper role of the state (PNUD 2010). Nevertheless, widespread empirical evidence shows that the level of public service provision varies profoundly, not only between world regions and countries but especially within states (Altman and Luna 2012, Rodrigues-Silveira 2012, 2013, Fukuyama 2013, Harbers 2014).
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Chapter 2. Theorizing Fragmented State Capacity
Abstract
In his seminal essay on the state and stateness in Latin America, Guillermo O’Donnell called attention to the high degree of unevenness with which states in the region appear to function throughout their territory and across the existing social stratification (1993:1358). Unlike, for instance, Scandinavian countries, most of the Latin American states would exhibit those “brown areas,” in which the state’s reach is limited and where it tends to compete or coexist with autonomous systems of local power; some to a lesser degree (Costa Rica, Chile, and Uruguay) and some to an extreme degree (Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia). O’Donnell’s idea of the “unevenness of stateness” has become an important reference for scholars studying state action, especially in those parts of the world where states appear to be somehow incapable of fulfilling some of their basic functions (Altman and Luna 2012, Boone 2012, Eaton 2012, Harbers 2014, Soifer 2015).
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Chapter 3. Contemporary Public Service Variations in Bolivia
Abstract
This chapter provides the quantitative analysis of public service variations in contemporary Bolivia. The first section presents the conceptual and methodological approach to the dependent variable, the local service variations. The public service manifestations are then analyzed using descriptive statistic and cartographic tools.
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Chapter 4. Tracing the Origins of Fragmented State Capacity in Bolivia
Abstract
This chapter provides the historical analysis of state capacity and public service development in Bolivia. The aim is to generate insights into the historical processes that help to explain the composition of contemporary patterns of local public services. The first section describes the conceptual ideas and the central hypotheses that will guide the historical investigation. The second section presents the corresponding empirical findings.
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Chapter 5. Fragmented State Capacity in Four Typical Bolivian Municipalities
Abstract
This chapter provides a typical case analysis of four Bolivian Municipalities. The central aim is to test the previously generated hypothesis at the micro level. This makes it possible not only to offer a more vivid depiction of the features of service provision, but also to explore in more detail the underlying causal mechanisms.
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Chapter 6. Conclusion: Fragmented State Capacity
Abstract
This book has explored the determinants of variations in local public services in Bolivia. Unlike the authors of previous studies, I have strongly considered the historical and spatial dimensions of this phenomenon. This specific focus has made it possible to reveal underexposed factors affecting the capacity of the Bolivian state to effectively implement a basic set of public services across its territory.
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Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Fragmented State Capacity
Author
Dr. Marco Just Quiles
Copyright Year
2019
Electronic ISBN
978-3-658-25794-1
Print ISBN
978-3-658-25793-4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25794-1