%0 Journal Article
%T Ecuador: ¡­hasta que se fueron todos
%A MACHADO PUERTAS
%A JUAN CARLOS
%J Revista de ciencia pol¨ªtica (Santiago)
%D 2008
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0718-090X2008000100010
%X this article highlights the year 2007 as a watershed in ecuadorian politics. it underscores the fierce political and electoral battle between the radical and anti-systemic president and the established political class which led to the collapse of the nation¡¯s precarious party system. within this process the president maneuvered from an extreme minority position, lacking partisan support in congress, to one of unfettered control of a fully empowered constituent assembly. whilst disaffected citizens still applaud the defeat of a highly corrupt political class, the country¡¯s structural problems have grown even deeper. paradoxically enough, the current problem is not the country¡äs cronic instability, , rather the very survival of ecuador¡¯s dysfunctional democracy.
%K ecuador
%K 2007
%K president rafael correa
%K democracy
%K constituent assembly.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-090X2008000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en