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Ecuador Political Forces and Interest Groups
Interest groups able to influence regime changes traditionally
have included the church, the military, the agrarian elite, the
largely Guayaquil-based commercial community, foreign commercial
interests, the urban working class, the politically active
peasantry and rural workers, and the middle class (including
students). Some of these groups have formed alliances with or have
manipulated less influential groups. Motivated primarily by
parochial concerns, many of these interest groups, like the
political parties themselves, have provided little impetus to
national development. Other smaller interest groups have included
the myriad of governmental autonomous agencies, which generally
controlled their own funds and followed their own policies. Illegal
political extremist organizations, such as the AVC and a nascent
narcotics-trafficking mafia, may, in a sense, constitute
additional, unconventional interest groups.
Data as of 1989
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