Sociedad civil y Revolución Ciudadana en Ecuador

Abstract

With the aim of establishing a participatory democratic model, in line with the demands of social movements, the Citizens Revolution project in Ecuador has created a complex regulatory-institutional machinery, which, paradoxically, seeks to reify the main scenarios of action by civil society in the public sphere. This process has been characterized by the standard-ization and bureaucratization of opportunities for participation and social control; the design of state strategies of confrontation towards social movements, and the disciplinary control of spheres of opinion created by the media and universities.