The Political Resource Curse Is Not a Very Useful Way to Think About What Happened in Ecuador

The resource curse is not a very useful way to think about what happened in ecuador. It's methodologically nationalist, we might put it. The state paying a lot of lip service and some real no policy reality to creating new participatory institutions for citizens to interact with the state. What ecuator saw amidst a commodity boom was a poliferation of conflict over democracy. We can only need to lookat our own recent history, not just of trump, but of bush, o, ba, m clinton,. Andi. Write.