Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives derived from electoral competition. However,...
Santiago Anria's AULA Blog posts include: -A Right Turn in Latin America? (Co-authored by Kenneth Roberts) - Date posted, January 9, 2019.-Bolivia: The Exceptional Case of the MAS. - Date posted, November 14,...
Bolivia under the MAS government of Evo Morales (2006–present) has offered weak protection for liberal rights, politicized the courts, and threatened opponents and the press. While some scholars have characterized Bolivia as...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit The Graduate Center, City University of New York's (CUNY) Website., The...
This article investigates why, in two different political and institutional contexts, leftist governing parties became agents of empowered inclusion, boosting the capacity of subordinate social actors to shape the agenda of...
This article explores the coalitional success of mass-mobilizing, reformist parties once they achieve power. Why are some of these parties more successful than others at managing the potentially conflicting interests of their...
Anria, Santiago, and Evelyne Huber. The Key to Evo Morales’ Political Longevity: Why He's Outlasted Other Latin American Left-Wing Leaders.Foreign Affairs (Article published online February 14, 2018)....
Published as: Sara Niedzwiecki and Santiago Anria, Participatory Social Policies: Diverging Patterns in Brazil and Bolivia, in State Transformation and Participatory Politics in Latin America,, special issue, Latin American...
Anria, Santiago, and Sara Niedzwiecki. Social Movements and Social Policy: The Bolivian Renta Dignidad.Studies in Comparative International Development 51, no. 3 (2016): 308-327....
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) emerged in Bolivia's Chapare region in the 1990s. Born of a rural social movement of coca growers, it spread to the...