Dialogue

Development (2008) 51, 89–95. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100453

Collective Management Strategies and Elite Resistance in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Travis Driessen

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Abstract

Travis Driessen examines the democratic experiment in public water management institutionalized in Cochabamba in the year 2000. By identifying specific factors that constrain the process, he reveals the challenges participatory management in public water and sanitation companies face in practice.

Keywords:

privatization, common goods, social processes, participation, representation, decision-making