Papers by Karen Garzón Sherdek
Revista Elecciones, 2021
El 7 de febrero de 2021 se llevaron a cabo las elecciones para elegir las dignidades de Presidenc... more El 7 de febrero de 2021 se llevaron a cabo las elecciones para elegir las dignidades de Presidencia, Vicepresidencia, Asamblea Nacional y Parlamento Andino. Estos comicios se realizaron en medio de una situación atípica no solo por la pandemia de la COVID-19, sino también por diferentes factores legales e institucionales que marcaron las fases preelectoral, electoral y poselectoral. De acuerdo a los resultados oficiales del Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), la segunda vuelta del 11 de abril enfrentó a los candidatos Andrés Arauz (representante del correísmo) y Guillermo Lasso (de derecha). Esta elección se caracterizó por la alta oferta partidista, el hecho de que se evaluaba la implementación de una serie de reformas electorales realizadas en febrero de 2020 y por los resultados estrechos entre los contendientes presidenciales por el segundo lugar, lo que supuso incertidumbre, serios conflictos y movilizaciones sociales durante los días posteriores a la elección.
ERN: Economic Growth (Econometrics) (Topic), 2016
Auty (1993) and Sachs and Warner (1997) reignited the line of argument of the resource curse: the... more Auty (1993) and Sachs and Warner (1997) reignited the line of argument of the resource curse: the idea that natural resource wealth has negative net effects on the development of nations. However, the result has been found to be highly dependent on the types of variables used to represent natural resource wealth (Brunnschweiler, 2007) and similar questions can raised about variables used to represent being “cursed”. In this paper we pursue the hunt for better variables by looking at the relationship between average income from natural resources per person and a wide array of key development indicators: Adjusted National Net Income, GDP per capita, an aggregate of services and industrialized goods, inequality measured by the Gini index, Poverty, the Human Development Index, the Prosperity Index, the Social Progress Index and the Fragile State Index. We do this on a global scale between 1970 and 2010. On the contrary, we find that natural resource wealth is positively linked to develo...
This article analyses Democracy Code reforms that came into effect on February 3rd of 2020 and it... more This article analyses Democracy Code reforms that came into effect on February 3rd of 2020 and its impact in the reconfiguration of the Ecuadorian electoral system. This paper attempts to determine if, whether or not, implementing the Webster method for local and national elections constitutes a change in terms of proportionality of the electoral system or if it reproduces a concentrating and exclusive regulatory framework. This research studied three elements that comprise the electoral system, affected by the reform: candidacy form, vote form, and formula for the allocation of seats. These elements were problematized considering the current type of electoral constituency. Authors such as Freidenberg (2010) and Pachano (2010) have pointed out that heterogeneity is a central feature of the Ecuadorian electoral system, accentuated by ongoing reforms different in nature and depth. However, although this particularity does not represent an inconvenience per se in terms of obtaining ele...
Auty (1993) and Sachs and Warner (1997) reignited the line of argument of the resource curse: the... more Auty (1993) and Sachs and Warner (1997) reignited the line of argument of the resource curse: the idea that natural resource wealth has negative net effects on the development of nations. However, the result has been found to be highly dependent on the types of variables used to represent natural resource wealth (Brunnschweiler, 2007) and similar questions can raised about variables used to represent being " cursed ". In this paper we pursue the hunt for better variables by looking at the relationship between average income from natural resources per person and a wide array of key development indicators: Adjusted National Net Income, GDP per capita, an aggregate of services and industrialized goods, inequality measured by the Gini index, Poverty, the Human Development Index, the Prosperity Index, the Social Progress Index and the Fragile State Index. We do this on a global scale between 1970 and 2010. On the contrary, we find that natural resource wealth is positively linked to development. We suggest, alternatively, that much of the actual cases where abundant natural resources hurt nations have been cases of common theft by tyrants, often backed by imperial powers.
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