Latin America Erupts

Ecuador's Return to the Past

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ID6288733
AuthorsJ Polga-Hecimovich (0000-0002-0711-6255), Francisco Sánchez (0000-0002-0054-8848)
Year2021
Volume32
Issue3
Pages5-18
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2021.0030
OpenAlexW3190877605
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The election of Guillermo Lasso in Ecuador may indicate a return to the neoliberalism, fiscal austerity, and minority government that marked the contentious politics of the 1990s and 2000s. This" return to the past" is the result of successive governments' inability to resolve longstanding structural deficiencies. Despite overt attempts to forge a new trajectory, Rafael Correa's Citizens' Revolution reflected an illusory stability that depended on favorable political-economic conditions. After government revenues decreased and Correa left office, the country's political and economic pathologies reemerged. Ultimately, the nature of these problems bodes ill for governability under Lasso and for democratic stability

Austerity · Coalition government · Democracy · Development economics · Economic stability · Economics · Government (linguistics · Keynesian economics · Latin Americans · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Political stability · Politics · Washington Consensus · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America

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