The return of politics in Bolivia: new social movements and the new role of the state in the direction of the society at the dawn of new millennium

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to understand the implications, in discursive and practical terms, which took the demands of the social movements as well as the rise to power of the MAS, with Evo Morales as President, in the relationship among economy, society and politics. In this way, and mainly though the theoretical analysis of functional differentiation and operational closure of the political and economic subsystems from Niklas Luhman and Norbert Lechner, the main hypothesis in this work, is that the demands of the social movements in the political system with the victory of Evo Morales in the presidential election in 2006, they mark the beginning of a new logic between politics and economics, which assumes the primacy of the first one over the second one as the articulator of the relationship between government and society, which has resulted mainly in a more regulatory State in the economic field and inclusive State in the political field.