Cohesión y disciplina partidaria de los asambleístas ecuatorianos a través de la votación en sala: periodo 2013–2017

Abstract

Party unity studies in legislatures have been the key to the comprehension of countries with plurality-majority systems as well as proportional representation. The analysis of cohesion and party discipline shows conditioning factors to understand the executive-legislative relationship, in addition to the interactions of the incumbents within their parties. The aim of this research is to contribute theoretically and empirically to the analysis of cohesion and party discipline within the legislative function of Ecuador. For what is considered the political organizations that formed the National Assembly of the period 2013-2017. Thus, the roll call voting carried out by the 137 Assembly members in the plenary session is used as a basis, as measured by the unit indices: RICE (1925) y UNITY (2007). Both previously tested by literature. The research design is descriptive correlational and transversal, under a quantitative approach. So it was found that Alianza País, for being of the ruling party and having a legislative majority, its legislators presented greater cohesion and party discipline, unlike opposition parties.