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On Defeating Executive Assaults: Presidents and Political Liberty in Ecuador
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O
N
D
EFEATING
E
XECUTIVE
A
SSAULTS:
P
RESIDENTS AND
P
OLITICAL
L
IBERTY IN
E
CUADOR
William T. Barndt
Department of Politics
Princeton University
## email not listed ##
Prepared for Delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Washington, DC
September 1-4, 2005
Please do not cite or circulate without author permission.
Comments are welcome
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 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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O
N
D
EFEATING
E
XECUTIVE
A
SSAULTS:
P
RESIDENTS AND
P
OLITICAL
L
IBERTY IN
E
CUADOR
William T. Barndt
Department of Politics
Princeton University
## email not listed ##
Prepared for Delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Washington, DC
September 1-4, 2005
Please do not cite or circulate without author permission.
Comments are welcome
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 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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