Il dibattito sullo Stato plurinazionale in Bolivia e in Spagna

Abstract

This article relates to the debate on the study of alternative models to the present-day forms of the Nation-State, in the complex environment of the financial globalization on the economic side and the revival of smaller fatherlands on the political one. Moving from the experience of the constitutional reform process that has turned the old Bolivian State into the Plurinational State of Bolivia, this work intends to investigate the development and spread of a new horizon of representation, strongly encouraged by the fruitful collaboration between government and social movements. The most ambitious part of the analysis is the attempt to connect and compare the Bolivian context with the Spanish one, allowing to open debates reconsidering the European institutional forms, within the community and in the individual member States.