Competitive Authoritarianism in Ecuador under Correa

Omar Sanchez-Sibony

《Taiwan Journal of Democracy》 14卷2期 (2018/12) Pp. 97-120

摘要

This essay seeks to categorize Ecuador under the presidency of Rafael Correa as a regime type. The analysis of the slope of the playing field across three crucial arenas of political competition (the legislature, the judiciary, and the mass media) reveals a severely pro-incumbent playing field. Notwithstanding zigzags in the realm of public policy, the Correa government followed an underlying modus operandi: the systematic quest for power-accretion via recurrent legal and political reforms-as well as informal practices. Contrary to many characterizations of the regime as a democracy with adjectives, a process-centered evaluation of the relevant playing fields of political competition shows it is best categorized as competitive authoritarian.

關鍵字

Competitive authoritarianism ； democracy ； Ecuador ； judiciary ； Latin America ； legislature ； mass media

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