government

Bolivia’s Runoff Signals End of MAS Era

Today’s runoff in the presidential election in Bolivia will determine the successor to a period of nearly twenty years of governance by the Movement Toward Socialism (hereinafter: MAS) party. The final vote is taking place between conservative former President Jorge Fernando Tuto Quiroga Ramírez and centrist Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira. Both candidates represent a clear ideological pivot away...

The Sovereignty of Governments

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” – Voltaire Analysing political realities through the lenses of their theoretical frameworks can be useful to evaluate not only the underlying structures but the current implementation of these principles in political decision-making. In this analysis we are going to explore the philosophical ideas of...