Abstract

GORDON YANCHATIPAN, Jenny. Political patronage in Ecuador, a conceptual approach based on the constitutional framework. ReHuSo [online]. 2020, vol.5, n.2, pp.156-177.  Epub Aug 02, 2020. ISSN 2550-6587.  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6812475.

Clientelism is conceived as the manifestation of vertical and asymmetric exchange, which is established with the intention of receiving a consideration. In this essay, a descriptive theoretical analysis is carried out, based on a rigorous documentary study, which proposes to expose the changes that this figure has undergone, with respect to its structure, the forms in which it is presented, be it by assigning bureaucratic positions, flow of state money or others. In this sense, the exchange of benefits is identified as one of the axes of this practice, which concerns negative elements of the policy such as corruption; Even in the Ecuadorian context, although the Constitution of the Republic presents advances in unmarked citizen participation in clientelism, the need to deepen these practices is recognized in order to transform the structural conditions that sustain clientelism.

Keywords : clientelism; political parties; participation; bureaucracy; corruption..

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