Abstract

REYNOSO, Diego Esteban. Path-dependence of territorial representation, Ecuador 1830-2010. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2019, vol.27, n.54, 00005. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2754-005-2019.

From the origins of the creation of the Ecuadorian State, the number of representatives that corresponds to the territories, provinces and/or cities has been a matter of discussion and confrontations that has found different constitutional solutions. Although universally the tendency has been to find a method that assign to each province a representation according to its population, the equal territorial representation from the origin has tended to generate a historical dependence that the different Constitutions had to incorporate. This article offers evidence of the changes and of the path-dependence that follows the allocation of seats from 1830 to the present. The article concludes that territories have a substantive representative weight accumulated throughout history that the population distribution criteria have not been able to mitigate.

Keywords : territorial representation; Congress; malapportionment; Ecuador.