La institucionalización del control social en Ecuador: posibilidades y tensiones de los mecanismos participativos
La institucionalización del control social en Ecuador: posibilidades y tensiones de los mecanismos participativos
Authors
Gutiérrez Magaña, Héctor Manuel
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Date
2019-06-27
Datos de publicación:
Revista Chilena de Derecho y Ciencia Política, Vol. 8, N°2, 139-164, 2017
Keywords
Participación ciudadana - Régimen político - Democratización
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Abstract
A finales de la década de los noventa, Ecuador vivió un período de crisis política donde las instituciones representativas fueron cuestionadas. En medio del descrédito de la clase política, dos reformas constitucionales instituyeron la desconfianza ciudadana como control social sobre el poder: en 1998 a través de la Comisión Cívica de Control de la Corrupción; y en el 2008 mediante el Consejo de Participación Ciudadana y Control Social. En este texto se examina el marco en el que opera el control social en el período de gobierno de Rafael Correa, se resaltan las tensiones de las instituciones participativas con la representación y el ejercicio mayoritario del poder, y se exponen las implicaciones que tienen las nuevas arenas de
participación ciudadana para analizar los procesos de democratización del Estado
At the end of the nineties, Ecuador experienced a period of political crisis in which representative institutions were questioned. During a process in which the political class became discredited, two constitutional reforms instituted citizen distrust as a social control over power: the Civic Commission for the Control of Corruption (1998); and the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (2008). This text examines the framework in which social control operated during the period of Rafael Correa’s presidency, stressing the tensions of participatory institutions with representation and the majority exercise of power and exposing the implications of the new arenas of citizen participation to analyze State democratization processes
At the end of the nineties, Ecuador experienced a period of political crisis in which representative institutions were questioned. During a process in which the political class became discredited, two constitutional reforms instituted citizen distrust as a social control over power: the Civic Commission for the Control of Corruption (1998); and the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (2008). This text examines the framework in which social control operated during the period of Rafael Correa’s presidency, stressing the tensions of participatory institutions with representation and the majority exercise of power and exposing the implications of the new arenas of citizen participation to analyze State democratization processes