LA DEMOCRACIA PARTICIPATIVA EN EL ECUADOR, NUEVO MODELO DE DEMOCRACIA EN LA CONSTITUCION DEL 2008

Abstract

Ecuadorian Constitution (2008), nowadays is considered progress in participatory democracy, this new constitutional scheme revealed the crisis of classical representative model and its main actors:political parties; allowing more participatory and deliberative democratic formulas, linking citizens to the State , but reachingto this point, it has been required a long way to go. This paper tries to analize the transformation of "democracy" in Ecuador, addressing the origins and its transformation of representative democracy to participatory democracy; explore the mechanisms of citizen participation in Ecuador, observing different political and social processes, that had occurred into the country. Is concluded that innovations in participation of civil society must take place within a framework of openness and flexibility, seeking to deepen the debate and building of democratic and participatory institutions, although for creating mechanisms that let the complete development of participation.