Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: A Theory Applied to the National Revolution in BoliviaThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981. |
Contents
REVOLUTIONS EFFECTS ON INEQUALITY | 6 |
BOLIVIA THE SETTING DATA AND METHODS | 42 |
PREREVOLUTIONARY ECONOMY AND SOCIETY | 67 |
THE REVOLUTION | 91 |
POPULAR PERCEPTIONS OF THE REVOLUTION | 105 |
Popular Support for the Revolution | 118 |
REVOLUTION AND INHERITED PRIVILEGE | 144 |
CONCLUSION | 182 |
Generalization of the Theory | 190 |
Appendix 2 | 207 |
The OpenEnded Questions | 223 |
Further Details on Inherited Privilege | 232 |
NOTES | 245 |
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advantage agriculture altiplano analysis average Aymara baseline model blue-collar born changes chapter cholos classes Cochabamba cohorts Coroico correlation between father's crucial decline economic growth effect of father's estimate example family background farm father's education father's occupational status figures following the revolution Gini coefficient hacendado Head of household high status household survey human capital Hypothesis income inequality increases inequality inherited privilege invest Kelley labor Lake Titicaca land reform landlords measure metric old elite opportunities peasants physical capital political poor postrevolutionary period predictions prerevolutionary Bolivia prerevolutionary levels previously exploited groups previously exploited population production property and human Quechua radical revolution redistribution reduce revolution's effects revolutionary period rich RISM rural Bolivia skills social race son's education son's status Source Spanish standard deviation standard of living status inheritance status points subsistence taxes tion traditional Treiman U.S. dollars urban Vera Rubin wealth workers