Relation Between Civil Society, Public Sphere and Democracy in Ecuador and Bolivia

 

Authors
Ortiz Lemos, Andr?s
Format
DoctoralThesis
Status
publishedVersion
Description

By taking advantage of the core discourses of the main social movements, Rafael Correa Delgado was elected president of Ecuador in 2006. Promising a ?citizen revolution?, the President designed and engaged heavy institutional machinery that disciplined the civil society and other elements of the embryonic cuadorian public sphere. Paradoxically, he did so under the pretext of establishing a participatory democracy. This paper examines the processes and mechanisms of governmental control over civil society, the strongest element of the Ecuadorian public sphere, and their consequences for social movements. Keywords: articipatory democracy, public sphere, lifeworld, Ecuador, Citizen Revolution, social Movements, Rafael Correa.

Publication Year
2015
Language
eng
Topic
SOCIEDAD CIVIL
DEMOCRACIA
ECUADOR
BOLIVIA
Repository
Repositorio SENESCYT
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