Incentivos y constreñimientos institucionales (in)formales para la producción y funcionamiento legislativo: periodos 1998–2006 y 2009–2017

Abstract

This work will look into the development of formal and informal institutional mechanisms that facilitate and obstruct the functioning of Ecuador’s Legislative Branch. It is a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive research, and takes into account the political ambition theory as a reference. Through a triangulation process of theory, interviews and press notes, it will get to the conclusion that a series of recent institutional changes have impacted legislative work, despite the basic structure of the Legislative Branch remaining practically unaltered in two decades. However, some of these new mechanisms have constituted themselves into informal legislative constraints.