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:	9783030276256
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	12/05/2019
Series:	Studies of the Americas
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

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.- Chapter 2 Reshaping the State: The Unitary Executive Presidency of Rafael Correa.- Chapter 3 “La patria ya es de todos:” Pilgrimages, Charisma, Territory, and the Return of the State.- Chapter 4 State-organized crime: An hypothesis on the institutionalization of corruption during the Revolución Ciudadana.- Chapter 5 Rafael Correa’s Technopopulism in Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 6 A revolution with a female face? Gender debates and policies during Rafael Correa’s government.- Chapter 7 Intellectuals, NGOs, and Social Movements under the Correa Regime: Collaborations and Estrangements.- Chapter 8 The Macroeconomics of the Commodities Boom in Ecuador: A Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 9 Understanding Ecuador’s Growth Prospects in the Aftermath of the Citizens’ Revolution.- Chapter 10 The political management of the oil bonanza during Correa’s government.- Chapter 11 Buen Vivir: a reference for public policies and development in Ecuador and the governments of the Latin American left.- Chapter 12 Educational Policy in Ecuador during the Citizens’ Revolution.- Chapter 13 Far from becoming the Jaguar of Latin America: The Ecuadorian Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Turn.- Chapter 14 Rafael Correa’s foreign policy paradox: discursive sovereignty, practical dependency.- Chapter 15 Conclusions: Assessing the Left Turn in Latin America – 10 years of the Correa Administration in Ecuador.

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)