2015
DOI: 10.18352/erlacs.9529
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Taking Control of the Public Sphere by Manipulating Civil Society: The Citizen Revolution in Ecuador

Abstract: Abstract: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 Ecuadorian 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 soc… Show more

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“…Measuring regime characteristics across eight dimensions of democracy, Pachano and García () classified Ecuador as a hybrid regime, as did The Economist Intelligence Unit (). Other analysts used different qualifiers, but concurred with the conclusion that Ecuador underwent a democratic regression (De la Torre, ; Ortíz, ).…”
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“…Measuring regime characteristics across eight dimensions of democracy, Pachano and García () classified Ecuador as a hybrid regime, as did The Economist Intelligence Unit (). Other analysts used different qualifiers, but concurred with the conclusion that Ecuador underwent a democratic regression (De la Torre, ; Ortíz, ).…”
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“…So, one of the threats to critical civil society is an environment saturated with ‗no public opinion'. (Ortiz, 2015) Using these tools and approaches, the state in power is trying to control the virtual public sphere, just as it has taken control of the public domain. Egyptian security forces, for example, blocked access to Cairo's Tahrir Square, the highly symbolic focal point of the 2011 revolution, after a series of social media videos posted by Mohamed Ali, a former military contractor living in self-imposed exile in Barcelona who called for a million Egyptians to march against the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi on Friday, 27 th September 2019.…”
Section: Who Control the New Arab Public Sphere?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…El Consejo está conformado por representantes de la Junta Parroquial y de la sociedad civil y está ligado a una estructura institucional que idealmente conecta la parroquia, el cantón y la provincia (los tres niveles de GAD). Esta estructura institucional forma parte de lo que se puede nombrar una nueva infraestructura de participación de la revolución ciudadana del régimen de Rafael Correa y Alianza País (Ospina Peralta, 2013;Ortiz, 2015). Sin embargo, la coyuntura política en Tundayme, donde tanto el GAD local como el provincial son contrarios a las políticas del gobierno central, y un retraso por parte del estado en crear un ente a nivel del municipio (la Asamblea de Participación Ciudadana Local) formalmente influyente en la elección de los representantes de la sociedad civil que van a participar en la elaboración del PDOT, abrió un espacio autónomo que hizo posible el involucramiento sustancial de CASCOMI como representante de la sociedad civil.…”
Section: Resistencia De La Socialización Del Estudio De Impacto Ambieunclassified