Assessing the Left Turn in Ecuador

Francisco Sánchez is Director of the Instituto de Iberoamérica and Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.Simón Pachano is Professor-Researcher of Political Science at FLACSO Ecuador, Ecuador.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Reshaping the State: The Unitary Executive Presidency of Rafael Correa.- Chapter 3 “La patria ya es de todos:” Pilgrimages, Charisma, Territory, and the Return of the State.- Chapter 4 State-organized crime: An hypothesis on the institutionalization of corruption during the Revolución Ciudadana.- Chapter 5 Rafael Correa’s Technopopulism in Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 6 A revolution with a female face? Gender debates and policies during Rafael Correa’s government.- Chapter 7 Intellectuals, NGOs, and Social Movements under the Correa Regime: Collaborations and Estrangements.- Chapter 8 The Macroeconomics of the Commodities Boom in Ecuador: A Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 9 Understanding Ecuador’s Growth Prospects in the Aftermath of the Citizens’ Revolution.- Chapter 10 The political management of the oil bonanza during Correa’s government.- Chapter 11 Buen Vivir: a reference for public policies and development in Ecuador and the governments of the Latin American left.- Chapter 12 Educational Policy in Ecuador during the Citizens’ Revolution.- Chapter 13 Far from becoming the Jaguar of Latin America: The Ecuadorian Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Turn.- Chapter 14 Rafael Correa’s foreign policy paradox: discursive sovereignty, practical dependency.- Chapter 15 Conclusions: Assessing the Left Turn in Latin America – 10 years of the Correa Administration in Ecuador.