Elecciones, Descentralización y Autonomía Local: Tensiones En el Progresismo Ecuatoriano

Translated title of the contribution: Elections, Decentralization and Local Autonomy: Tensions in Ecuadorian Progressivism

Victor Hugo Torres Davila

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Abstract

In Ecuador's progressive period, decentralization was overshadowed by a recentralization of the public sector. In the two sectional elections of 2009 and 2014, electoral dispersion and opposition to the progressivism of local governments increased, with the consequent political neglect of decentralization; while in the national elections of 2009 and 2013, with the presidential victories, state recentralization was legitimized and diminished at the local level. Decentralization, in the midst of tensions between the sectional governments and the national government, faces uncertainties that can only be overcome by redefining state relations between the center and the localities.
Translated title of the contributionElections, Decentralization and Local Autonomy: Tensions in Ecuadorian Progressivism
Original languageSpanish (Ecuador)
Pages (from-to)155-172
Number of pages18
JournalEcuador Debate
Volume2019
Issue number2019
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2020

Keywords

  • Autonomy
  • Decentralization
  • Ecuador
  • Elections
  • Progressivism

CACES Knowledge Areas

  • 213A Political Science

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