Abstract
AbstractThis article examines how civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America cope with authoritarian populism. In particular, it outlines cases of coping and adaptive strategies by CSOs in Ecuador during the years of President Rafael Correa’s presidency (2007–2017). Ecuador provides an example of an authoritarian, leftist populist administration; thus situating our discussion in the general civil society-government relations literature, we link together trends of authoritarianism and populism and its implications on CSOs. Using a qualitative-interpretive approach with long-term fieldwork in Ecuador, we outline a selection of coping strategies used by organized civil society that include formal, semi-formal and informal organizational configurations.
Highlights
This article examines the effects of authoritarian populism on civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America in the case of Ecuador
The article proceeds as follows: First, in order to examine how CSOs cope with authoritarian regimes, we situate our discussion in the general civil society-government relations literature
Coping strategies employed by CSOs were on an organizational spectrum: formal, semi-formal and informal (See Table 3)
Summary
This article examines the effects of authoritarian populism on civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America in the case of Ecuador. While previous work shows that some CSOs are “disappearing” and others “rebranding” their policy areas or programmatic functions (Dupuy, Ron, and Prakash 2015), the Ecuador case demonstrates, as our findings will show, the reconfiguration of organizational forms as coping and adaptive strategies to the changing institutional and operational space in which it occupies under an authoritarian populist government.
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