Análisis de factores que explican la descentralización fiscal a lo largo del tiempo, caso Ecuador

Abstract

The subject of fiscal decentralization has arisen more sharply in Latin America from the 1980s owing to the economic crises of the countries. In Ecuador this is meaning a tendency towards democracy, which is contemplated based on constitutional reform, with legislation for the transfer of resources to regional governments in 1997 – 1998, which have been gaining force over time. Alongside these changes a democracy was emerging which was shown in the policy with the principle of the election of local authorities, coming together with the emergence of political parties of specified regions, which began to represent a particular area. Ecuador comprises four regions which are clearly different from each other and where one can see a greater or lesser difference in the distribution of resources assigned to the regional governments. Among the determining factors of this process one can see that there is a connection between the local governments and their preferences in the political parties or movements, which has had more relevance in electoral processes. At present Ecuador is under going a process of political change with a new government which disregards traditional political norms, including in its scheme of government policies decentralization, but in a redistributive way which will have also a direct connection with the local governments, since within its scheme it will be from central government that all state policy is directed