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Scholars of democratic consolidation have come to focus on the links between political institutions and enduring regime outcomes. This article takes issue with the conceptual and analytical underpinnings of this literature by highlighting how new political institutions, rather than securing democratic politics, have in fact had a more checkered effect. It delineates why the theoretical expectations of the democratic consolidation literature have not been realized and draws, by example, on the contemporary ethnic movements that are now challenging third-wave democracies. In particular, it highlights how contemporary indigenous movements, emerging in response to unevenly institutionalized reforms, pose a postliberal challenge to Latin America's I newly founded democracies. These movements have sparked political debates and constitutional reforms over community rights, territorial autonomy, and a multiethnic citizenry. As a whole, I they have laid bare the weakness of state institutions, the contested terms of democracy, and the I indeterminacy of ethnic accommodation in the region. As such, these movements highlight the need to qualify somewhat premature and narrow discussions of democratic consolidation in favor I of a broader research agenda on democratic politics.

This essay reviews the following works:
Indianidad evanescente en los Andes de Ecuador. By Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar. Quito: FLACSO Ecuador; Ediciones Universitat de Lleida, 2022. Pp. xxxix + 372. €22.00 paperback, free downloadable e-book. ISBN: 9789978676301.
Indigene Autonomie in Lateinamerika: Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und staatlicher Kontrolle. By Michael Fackler. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2021. Pp. 322. €60.00 hardcover, €60.00 e-book. ISBN: 9783837657982.
Indigene Resistencia: Der Widerstand der bolivianischen TIPNIS-Bewegung. By Maximilian Held. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2022. Pp. 276. €45.00 hardcover, free downloadable e-book. ISBN: 9783837663686.
La revolución del arcoiris y su escala de grises: Movimiento indígena del Ecuador. By Stalin Herrera Revelo. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2022. Pp. 135. Free downloadable e-book. ISBN: 9789878133799.
Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America: Collective Action in the Digital Age. By Pascal Lupien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. vii + 284. $29.95 paperback, $99.00 hardcover, $22.99 e-book. ISBN: 9781469672625.
¡Así encendimos la mecha! Treinta años del levantamiento indígena en Ecuador: Una historia permanente. Edited by Floresmilo Simbaña, Adriana Victoria Rodríguez Caguana, and Mateo Martínez Abarca. Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala, 2020. Pp. 220. $15.00 paperback, free downloadable e-book. ISBN: 9789942884107.

'Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala' by Kay B. Warren is reviewed. Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala by Kay B. Warren is reviewed.

AbstractThis paper bridges the gap between studies of subaltern social movements and elite politics by asking how political and economic elites respond to indigenous mobilisation in Ecuador. I argue that elites have developed a hegemonic project based around three core principles – multiculturalism, economic liberalism and democracy – that serves to incorporate indigenous peoples into the political system while simultaneously excluding indigenous movement demands that would undermine the political and economic sources of elite power. The paper develops this argument around a concept of what I call 'multicultural market democracy' based on historical analysis and in-depth interviews with 43 Ecuadorian elites.