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A Political Analysis of Legal Pluralism in Bolivia and Colombia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2000

DONNA LEE VAN COTT
DONNA LEE VAN COTT
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee
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Abstract

In this article the author compares recent efforts in Bolivia and Colombia to implement constitutionally mandated regimes of legal pluralism, and identifies the most important factors affecting the practical realisation of legal pluralism: the capacity of the political system, the legal tradition and society to tolerate normative diversity; the geographic isolation and cultural alienation of indigenous communities; the degree of internal division within indigenous communities and movements regarding legal pluralism in general, and in specific cases, that have arisen, and the availability of effective legal mechanisms to indigenous communities seeking to protect this right.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 207 - 234
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Research for this article was supported by a Fulbright dissertation scholarship and a grant from the Cordell Hull Fund of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The author would like to thank José Antonio Lucero, Rachel Sieder and the anonymous reviewers of this journal for helpful comments on a previous draft.