Assessing the Left Turn in Ecuador

by Francisco Sánchez (Editor), Simón Pachano (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030276270
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/05/2019
Series:	Studies of the Americas
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	373
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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
Andre's 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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This timely collection brings Ecuador's top scholars together to examine their country’s place in Latin America’s Left Turn. Under the controversial leadership of President Rafael Correa, Ecuador spent a decade in a purported Citizens’ Revolution. With precision and clarity, the book unpacks this multi-dimensional process—the ideas, policies, political style, and the toll that the Correa era took on Ecuador’s democracy. This stellar volume is foundational for understanding 21st century politics in the region.” (Catherine Conaghan, Professor of Political Studies, Queen's University, Canada)

“This critical analysis of the Revolución Ciudadana provides a comprehensive view of Rafael Correa’s 10-year government, with detailed chapters covering institutional changes, corruption, gender, social movements, the commodities boom, education policy, and other themes. Not only does this account provide a welcome addition to a thin literature on Ecuador, it does so in a comparative and theoretical framework. As such, the manuscript gives the reader details about a particular popular and populist leftist government and tools to build a broader characterization of this regime type.” (Scott Morgenstern, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA)