los cuales fueron diseñados originalmente para salvaguardar el Estado de Derecho han sido
instrumentalizados para facilitar la concentración de poder en ciertas entidades, organismos
públicos o determinadas figuras políticas. Dentro de esta investigación se logra identificar tres
modalidades principales de regresión las cuales son; reformas expeditas con limitado debate
público, interpretaciones constitucionales expansivas por parte de tribunales con afinidad política
y; aprovechamientos estratégicos de vacíos normativos para implementar medidas excepcionales
que posteriormente se normalicen. Finalmente, la investigación concluye en que la estabilidad
constitucional ha sido sistemáticamente comprometida, esto mediante la utilización de
mecanismos que son normalmente legales pero material mente cuestionables mismos que han
permitido la adaptación del marco constitucional a intereses políticos coyunturales.
Palabras clave: regresión constitucional, concentración de poder, crisis institucional,
interpretación constitucional, Ecuador, Estado de Derecho
Abstract
This research critically analyses the phenomena within the convention of power and constitutional
regression, focusing particularly on what concerns the contexts of political, economic and social
crisis. This research focuses directly on examining constitutional reforms, controversial legal
interpretations and normative gaps that have been configured with regard to the development of
Ecuadorian constitutional law over the last decades. All of this through a qualitative
methodological point of view that focuses on documentary analysis, emblematic case studies and
jurisprudential reviews in relation to the research context. The study emphasises how the
constitutional mechanisms that were originally designed to safeguard the rule of law have been
instrumentalised to facilitate the concentration of power in certain entities, public bodies or certain
political figures. This research identifies three main modalities of regression: expedited reforms
with limited public debate, expansive constitutional interpretations by courts with political affinity,
and strategic exploitation of normative vacuums to implement exceptional measures that are
subsequently normalised. Finally, the research concludes that constitutional stability has been
systematically compromised through the use of mechanisms that are normally legal but materially