1 THE EMERGENCE OF A MESTIZO AND INDIGENOUS DEMOCRACY IN BOLIVIA* by Herbert S. Klein Columbia University & Stanford University Paper prepared for the conference “Roots of the Democratic Tradition in Latin America” Yale University, December 2-3, 2011, Revised version of Dec 9, 2011 Not for citation without permission of the author. * I wish to thank Clara López Beltrán, Manuel Contreras, Antonio Mitre and José Alejandro Peres Cajias for help with sources and providing a critical reading of this paper.