Abstract

GARCIA ARIAS, Nemis; CORAL PALACIOS, Tito Hugo  and  PARONYAN, Hayk. The "empty chair": its use by young people in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.6, pp. 462-467.  Epub Dec 02, 2020. ISSN 2218-3620.

People's rights are fundamental in the development of every society; the current Constitution opened a field of action for citizen participation, based on the precept that sovereignty lies in the people and that it is the basis of the authority exercised through the organs of public power and democratic means. Establishing the real state of citizen participation and social control, exercised by the youth of the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas is the objective of the work, considering that the percentage of youth in the province exceeds 28% of the total population. The field study revealed that young people in the province are unaware of their rights as citizens and of the existence of mechanisms for citizen participation such as the empty chair. This has the serious consequence that citizens are not ready to actively confront corruption and abuse of power that could occur on the part of public institution officials, since it is precisely these mechanisms for citizen participation that were created to curb one of the most lethal evils afflicting the country, which is corruption within the public administration.

Keywords : Youth; citizen participation; participation mechanisms; empty chair.

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