Author: Catherine M. Conaghan | Journal of Democracy

Catherine M. Conaghan is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Latin American Politics at Queen’s University, Canada.

July 2016, Volume 27, Issue 3

Delegative Democracy Revisited: Ecuador Under Correa

Catherine M. Conaghan

One of the first Latin American countries to make a democratic transition as the 1970s ended, Ecuador struggled in its search for political stability. Now it appears to have more stability, but that stability appears more authoritarian than democratic.

April 2008, Volume 19, Issue 2

Ecuador: Correa’s Plebiscitary Presidency

Catherine M. Conaghan

Long an extreme case of institutionalized instability, Ecuador now has a dynamic young president who is determined to remake its constitution, and eventually its society, in the name of "twenty-first-century socialism."

Latin America’s Struggle for Democracy

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Diego Abente-Brun

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