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This paper analyzes how decentralization changed policy outputs at the local level in the case of Bolivia. The author argues that outputs of decentralization are simply the aggregate of local-level political and institutional dynamics and so, in order to understand decentralization the way the local government works must first be understood. He hence reviews Bolivia’s decentralization program, focusing on its legal and budgetary aspects with a strong focus on local governments. He then provides a conceptual model of local government and reconnects this to the broad trends in Bolivian public investment post-decentralization.