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This is a wiki project dedicated to Bolivian government and politics, with a special focus on political parties. The central aim of the project is to provide an online, searchable, and editable database of Bolivian political parties.
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This is a wiki project dedicated to '''Bolivian government and politics''', with a special focus on political parties. The central aim of the project is to provide a searchable and editable online database of Bolivian political parties and their key personnel. Entries are encyclopedic and are not meant to be exhaustive. In addition to entries on political parties, you will find entries on key historical events, individual political biographies, and descriptions of political institutions.
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General Index
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This is a work in progress and updates are regularly being made. The immediate goal is for the site to be well under way by '''early 2008'''. For an earlier version of this project, see my [http://www.centellas.org/politics/politiddly.html Bolivia TiddlyWiki].
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== Current updates ==
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I'm currently focusing on writing encyclopedic entries for the [[Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario]] ('''MNR''') and [[Movimiento al Socialismo]] ('''MAS'''), which will serve as a template for other party entries.
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== Sandbox ==
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I've added a [[Sandbox]] for adding new information, which can then be shifted into appropriate pages.
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==General index==
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* [[political parties|List of political parties]]
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* [[Comités cívicos|List of civic associations]] (Comités Cívicos)
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* [[Elections|List of elections]]
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* [[Governments|List of governments]]
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* [[bibliography|Reference bibliographies]]
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This will be a wiki of Bolivian politics, as soon as I get some time to transfer information into this format. In the meantime, here's a list of [[political parties]]. I'm hoping for concise, informative entries. Currently, I'm focusing on the [[MNR]], and I'll later use that as a template for entries on the other parties. There are, however, entries on several other parties (in blue hypertext), though these are not nearly as fleshed out.
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==About the editors==
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[http://users.dickinson.edu/~centellm/ Miguel Centellas] is Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics and Latin American Studies Program Coordinator at [http://www.dickinson.edu Dickinson College] in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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The goal is to officially "launch" this project in mid-2007, opening it up to other editors (mostly other academics or experts on Bolivian politics) around that time.
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There is also a list of Bolivian [[newspapers]] (and other media) I'm putting together.
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==About the Editor==
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Some personal info: I recently finished my dissertation on Bolivian politics and started a two-year term appointment teaching at [http://www.dickinson.edu Dickinson College] in August 2006. In part, this is a personal project. But it's also inspired by the incredibly large number of factual inacuracies in Wikipedia articles on Bolivian politics (and I don't mean just errors based on normative bias, but just plain factual errrors).
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[http://www.giga-hamburg.de/english/index.php?folder=staff/buitrago&file=buitrago_en.html Miguel A. Buitrago] is Associate Researcher and Doctoral Fellow at the [http://www.giga-hamburg.de/index.php?file=ilas.html&folder=ilas GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies] in Hamburg, Germany.
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I may not get around to updating this as quickly as you'd like. So if you have any specific requests, please [mailto:mcentellas@gmail.com email me]. You should also check out my [http://centellas.org/politics/politiddly.html Bolivian politics tiddlywiki] or my [http://mcentellas.com blog] (where I often write about current Bolivian politics.
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===Research assistants===
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Juliana Horwath, 2007-2008 Dana Research Assistant, [http://www.dickinson.edu Dickinson College].

Current revision as of 12:52, 28 October 2007

This is a wiki project dedicated to Bolivian government and politics, with a special focus on political parties. The central aim of the project is to provide a searchable and editable online database of Bolivian political parties and their key personnel. Entries are encyclopedic and are not meant to be exhaustive. In addition to entries on political parties, you will find entries on key historical events, individual political biographies, and descriptions of political institutions.

This is a work in progress and updates are regularly being made. The immediate goal is for the site to be well under way by early 2008. For an earlier version of this project, see my Bolivia TiddlyWiki.

Contents

Current updates

I'm currently focusing on writing encyclopedic entries for the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) and Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), which will serve as a template for other party entries.

Sandbox

I've added a Sandbox for adding new information, which can then be shifted into appropriate pages.

General index

About the editors

Miguel Centellas is Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics and Latin American Studies Program Coordinator at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Miguel A. Buitrago is Associate Researcher and Doctoral Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies in Hamburg, Germany.

Research assistants

Juliana Horwath, 2007-2008 Dana Research Assistant, Dickinson College.

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