%0 Journal Article
%T An Opportunity Squandered? Elites, Social Movements, and the Government of Evo Morales
%A Linda Farthing
%J Latin American Perspectives
%@ 1552-678X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0094582X18798797
%X Over its 12 years in power, Bolivia＊s MAS government has made significant advances in expanding inclusion and reducing poverty. In the process, it has steadily been transformed into a hegemonic force that is increasingly dependent on expedient and pragmatically based compromises with economic elites. Concurrently, social movement influence and participation in the government have steadily declined. After 2009, when an uprising by Eastern elites had been quashed and MAS gained a congressional majority, the MAS missed an opening to advance its original project of structural change, opting instead for a more expedient strategy that has kept it in power at the cost of accommodating elites and debilitating social movements. Durante sus 12 aˋos en el poder, el gobierno MAS de Bolivia ha logrado avances significativos en expandir la inclusi車n y reducir la pobreza. En el proceso, se ha transformado continuamente en una fuerza hegem車nica que depende cada vez m芍s de compromisos oportunos y basados en pragmatismo con las 谷lites econ車micas. Al mismo tiempo, la influencia y la participaci車n en el gobierno de los movimientos sociales ha disminuido continuamente. Despu谷s de 2009, cuando un levantamiento de las 谷lites del Este se suprimi車 y el MAS gan車 una mayor赤a en el Congreso, el MAS perdi車 una oportunidad para avanzar en su proyecto original de cambio estructural, optando por una estrategia m芍s conveniente que lo mantuvo en el poder a costa de acomodar a las 谷lites y debilitar los movimientos sociales
%K Bolivia
%K Elites
%K Social movements
%K Left governments
%K Evo Morales
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X18798797