Author(s)

Liliana del Carmen Morillo Acosta, Nancy del Rocio Flores Hinojosa

Administrative Sciences Department, Central University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

This scientific contribution focuses on an interpretation within the framework of a qualitative and quantitative methodology, whose purposes are: in the first instance, to offer readers a brief theoretical perspective about the so-called political-economic cycles from the traditional and modern approach, as well as the macroeconomic objectives and the determining variables that make it up; and second, the presentation of the economic scenario and the results of the careful analysis of the electoral elections held in the Republic of Ecuador on February 7, 2021, in which the first round was held to elect constitutional president and constitutional vice president, to on a par with the election of the members of the legislative power for the period 2021-2025; and, on April 11, 2021, when the ballot was held among the candidates with the highest preference of the voters, as determined by the Political Constitution of Ecuador in its articles 143 and 118, consecrating the postulates of presidentialism as a form of government in democratic political systems under the horizontal dimension referred to by the principle of separation of powers: 1) Basic macroeconomic objectives and determining variables of economic policy; 2) Employment; 3) Price stability; 4) Economic growth.

Political-Economic Cycle, Macroeconomic Variables, Electoral System, Employment, Economic Growth, Bibliographic Review

Morillo Acosta, L. and Flores Hinojosa, N. (2022) Political-Economic Cycles in the Electoral Systems in Ecuador, 2021. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 138-151. doi: 10.4236/jss.2022.105011.