Challenges to democratic governance : political and institutional reforms and social movements in the Andean Region

Abstract

The articles presented in this book are the result of research carried out as part of the Democratic Governance in the Andean Region project, designed for the purpose of analyzing political and institutional reforms and the roles played by social movements in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela between the 1980s and 2008. Our work was based on the conviction that there are important dynamics and patterns, as well as problems and challenges, that are common to the Andean countries, although, naturally, there are variations insofar as intensity and specific national characteristics are concerned. The need for a comparative approach to an intense process of political reforms and social mobilization led to the research project whose results are being presented in this book...