Marco Just Quiles offers new perspectives on how domestic and external factors interact to
shape variations in local state capacity. Using Bolivia as a case he applies quantitative and
qualitative methods to decode the nexus between global interdependencies subnational
bargaining processes and diverging configurations of public service provision at the local
level. Relying in part on newly compiled indicators the author presents the ways in which
shifting distributional coalitions between regional elites central governments and their
connections with international markets in different periods of the last century have produced
the contemporary fragmentation of stateness in Bolivia.
