Executives and emergencies : presidential decrees of exception in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru

Authors
Wright, Claire
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/19987
ISSN: 1989-8819
Publisher
Universidad de Alcalá. Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (IELAT)
Date
2014
Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (IELAT)
Bibliographic citation
Documentos de trabajo. IELAT-Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá, N. 60, (marzo 2014). ISSN 1989-8819
Keywords
Emergency powers
Regimes of exception
Presidents
Bolivia
Ecuador
Peru
Migration and development
Co-development
Descentralizated cooperation
Italy
Description / Notes
A preliminary version of this paper was presented at RedGob X Annual Meeting in Brasilia on 21st 22nd September, 2012. The author would like to thank Andrés Mejía Acosta for his insightful comments on a draft version of the text and both Salvador Martí i Puig and Mariana Llanos for their invaluable guidance throughout the research
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to identify how Presidents in the Central Andean Region have used Regimes of Exception in the first decade of the twenty first century. According to the doctrine, Regimes of Exception equate to a concentration of powers in the executive branch and the suspension of human rights to overcome an ‘exceptional threat’. In Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, these mechanisms were used by military governments at different times throughout the 20th century to deal with unrest but they have not been studied by political scientists. This paper offers an exploratory analysis of the use given to these mechanisms by Presidents in the period between 2000 and 2010
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