Integridad electoral para la calidad democrática

Zusammenfassung

It conducts a study of the democratic culture of confidence that electoral institutions have achieved to avoid their interference and lack of impartiality and thus legitimize electoral processes. It focuses its analysis on the Ecuadorian State which, through its electoral bodies, has not achieved the desired electoral integrity for a full democratic exercise, for this purpose the research makes a comparison on the differentiating elements between countries of the Center, South America, and the Andean Region, namely Costa Rica, Chile, and Ecuador. It begins with a review of the origin of electoral institutions in the region, continues with a study of the adequacy of the integration of electoral bodies, to finalize the minimum requirements to consider for electoral integrity in a democracy