Assessing the Left Turn in Ecuador

ISBN-13: 9783030276249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 373 str.

Francisco Sanchez; Simon Pachano

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction

Francisco Sánchez and Simón Pachano

Chapter 2 Reshaping the State: The Unitary Executive Presidency of Rafael Correa 

John Polga-Hecimovich

Chapter 3 “La patria ya es de todos:” Pilgrimages, Charisma, Territory, and the Return of the State

Felipe Burbano de Lara

Chapter 4 State-organized crime: An hypothesis on the institutionalization of corruption during the Revolución Ciudadana

César Montúfar

Chapter 5 Rafael Correa’s Technopopulism in Comparative Perspective

Carlos de la Torre

Chapter 6 A revolution with a female face? Gender debates and policies during Rafael Correa’s government

Marcela Morales Hidalgo

Chapter 7 Intellectuals, NGOs, and Social Movements under the Correa Regime: Collaborations and Estrangements

Carmen Martínez Novo

Chapter 8 The Macroeconomics of the Commodities Boom in Ecuador: A Comparative Perspective

Augusto de la Torre, Simón Cueva, and María Alexandra Castellanos

Chapter 9 Understanding Ecuador’s Growth Prospects in the Aftermath of the Citizens’ Revolution

Matias Bayas-Erazo

Chapter 10 The political management of the oil bonanza during Correa’s government

Andrés Mejía Acosta and Vicente Albornoz

Chapter 11 Buen Vivir: a reference for public policies and development in Ecuador and the governments of the Latin American left

Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán and Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara

Chapter 12 Educational Policy in Ecuador during the Citizens’ Revolution

Juan Ponce Jarrín

Chapter 13 Far from becoming the Jaguar of Latin America: The Ecuadorian Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Turn

María Belén Albornoz

Chapter 14 Rafael Correa’s foreign policy paradox: discursive sovereignty, practical dependency

Grace Jaramillo

Chapter 15 Conclusions: Assessing the Left Turn in Latin America – 10 years of the Correa Administration in Ecuador

Francisco Sánchez and Simón Pachano

O autorze

Francisco Sánchez is Director of the Instituto de Iberoamérica and Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

Simón Pachano is Professor-Researcher of Political Science at FLACSO Ecuador, Ecuador.

Blurb

This book examines the “left turn” in Latin American politics, specifically through the lens of Ecuador and the effects of the Citizens’ Revolution’s actions and public policies on relevant actors and institutions. Through a comprehensive analysis of one country’s turn to the left and the outcomes generated by that process, the authors and editors provide a clearer understanding of the ways in which the popular desire for change (predominant through the region in recent times, as a response to late-twentieth-century neoliberalism) was realized—or not. The particular case of Ecuador further potentiates analysis of the entire region-wide process, considering that the “corrector” cycle is now at an end, and that the economic and international conditions that favored the return of left governments have also changed.

Francisco Sánchez is Director of the Instituto de Iberoamérica and Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

Simón Pachano is Professor-Researcher of Political Science at FLACSO Ecuador, Ecuador.