Santiago Anria, When Movements Become Parties: The Bolivian MAS in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 275 pp.; hardcover $105, ebook $84.

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Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 275 pp.; hardcover $105, ebook $84. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Bolivia has attracted the attention of an increasing number of social scientists. After the social protests, it was the MAS experience in government that enchanted scholars—including this reviewer—and leftist activists alike. Since 2006, the MAS government has presided over a wide array of social and political changes, such as the election of the first indigenous president, the refounding of Bolivia as a Plurinational State, and the inclusion of indigenous demands and rights in the 2009 Constitution, such as indigenous territorial autonomies and prior consultation. [...]one of the main two threads of the book’s argument is that the autonomy of the social movements explains the degree of concentration of power in the partisan elite. [...]When Movements Become Parties is a wonderful and timely contribution to the literatures on political parties in general and to movement-based parties in particular. Because the book’s prose and analyses are highly accessible, it can be assigned in graduate and undergraduate courses on Latin American or comparative politics.

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Falleti, T. G. (2019). Santiago Anria, When Movements Become Parties: The Bolivian MAS in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index, 275 pp.; hardcover $105, ebook $84. Latin American Politics and Society, 61(04), 159–162. https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2019.40

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