The Permanent Campaign of Rafael Correa: Making Ecuador's Plebiscitary Presidency

Autor:	Carlos de la Torre, Catherine M. Conaghan
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Presidency Sociology and Political Science biology Communication media_common.quotation_subject Public administration biology.organism_classification Prime (order theory) Democracy Politics Political science Correa Public support media_common
Zdroj:	The International Journal of Press/Politics. 13:267-284
ISSN:	1940-1620 1940-1612
DOI:	10.1177/1940161208319464
Popis:	Analysts developed the notion of the permanent campaign to describe how presidents and prime ministers employ political marketing techniques in their quest to mobilize public support. To date, most scholarly studies of the phenomenon have focused on its features and consequences in advanced democracies. This study expands the analysis of the permanent campaign by examining its relationship to the rise of an extreme version of the plebiscitary presidency in the Andean region of Latin America. Through an examination of the administration of Rafael Correa in Ecuador, we show how the permanent campaign has been used as part of a strategy to secure the president's stay in office and effect far-reaching constitutional change. In countries where mechanisms of accountability are already weak, we conclude that conjoining of the plebiscitary presidency and the permanent campaign is likely to exacerbate the accountability deficit and generate problematic consequences for democratic political development.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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