Download or read book Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement written by Kenneth J. Mijeski and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mobilization of militant indigenous politics is one of the most important stories in Latin American studies today. In this critical work, Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck examine the rise and decline of Ecuador’s leading indigenous party, Pachakutik, as it tried to transform the state into a participative democracy. Using in-depth interviews with political activists, as well as a powerful statistical analysis of election results, the authors show that the political election game failed to advance the causes of Ecuador’s poor or the movement’s own indigenous supporters. Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement is an extraordinarily valuable case study of Ecuador’s indigenous movement and the challenges it still faces.