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Barndt, William. "On Defeating Executive Assaults: Presidents and Political Liberty in Ecuador" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41807_index.html>

Barndt, W. , 2005-09-01 "On Defeating Executive Assaults: Presidents and Political Liberty in Ecuador" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41807_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper introduces a conceptual framework for making sense of attempts by elected presidents to restrict the exercise of basic political liberties (what I call executive assaults). After demonstrating that executive assaults are a persistent problem in South America, the paper uses original data from Ecuador to explain why some executive assaults ‘succeed’ while others are defeated. To do so, it combines basic statistical tests and process-tracing to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions of the different assault outcomes. Most importantly, the paper finds that the only way to defeat an executive assault in Ecuador is for particular business associations or firms to mobilize against it in ways that do not antagonize the state security forces. These results push forward existing arguments on the relationship between the armed forces, business, and the possibility of democracy in South America.

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