En sintonía con la investigación que analiza las decisiones estratégicas de los presidentes, este artículo aporta con el estudio de las coaliciones políticas en América Latina desde la observación de los cambios ministeriales en Chile. Para ello, se propone analizar los episodios de rotación mini...
In line with the literature that considers ministerial rotation as a product of the strategic decisions made by presidents, this paper conducts an indepth historical study of the determining factors of cabinet changes in Chile. Using mixed techniques that combine the analysis of ministers between...
Arellano González, Juan
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Toro Maureira, Sergio
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Novoa Ocares, Romina
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[Ministerial survival in Chile: Parties, coalitions and presidentialism from 1830 to 1973]
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[Sobrevivencia ministerial en Chile: Partidos, coaliciones y presidencialismo desde 1830 a 19731]
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Sobrevivencia ministerial en Chile: Partidos, coaliciones y presidencialismo desde 1830 a 19731
On 13 December 2009, seven million Chileans went to the polls to elect the president who would run their country from 2010 to 2014, as well as lower chamber representatives of the country’s sixty electoral districts. The congressional election was characterized by continuity, with the center-left...
Toro Maureira, Sergio
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Luna, Juan Pablo
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[The Chilean elections of December 2009 and January 2010]
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The Chilean elections of December 2009 and January 2010
This article seeks to explore the political preferences of indigenous peoples in Chile. Specifically, it attempts to challenge conventional wisdom, which holds that the Mapuche are largely right-wing oriented, and that they also bear a low adherence level to their own ethnicity. In light of the r...
Toro Maureira, Sergio
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Jaramillo Brun, Nathalie
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[Indigenous Voting in Chile: Ideological Preference and Ethnic Support in the Mapuche Electorate]
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Indigenous Voting in Chile: Ideological Preference and Ethnic Support in the Mapuche Electorate
Toro Maureira, Sergio
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Luna, Juan Pablo
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[The Chilean elections of December 2009 and January 2010]
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The Chilean elections of December 2009 and January 2010
How does ethnic status affect social stratification in Chile? Despite a rich theoretical debate in the literature on social stratification, there is a shortage of empirical approaches to this phenomenon in Latin America. This research note seeks to bridge the analytical gap by describing the soci...
Valenzuela, Macarena S.
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Toro Maureira, Sergio
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Rojo Mendoza, Félix
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[Equal in Poverty, Unequal in Wealth: Ethnic Stratification in Chile, the Mapuche Case]
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Equal in Poverty, Unequal in Wealth: Ethnic Stratification in Chile, the Mapuche Case
This article analyzes the effects of majoritarian formulas on the effective number of candidates in the elections for president (absolute majority) and mayor (relative majority) in Chile. Although, in theory, greater fragmentation with the absolute majority system with run-off voting would be exp...
Toro Maureira, Sergio
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Morales Quiroga, Mauricio
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Pineiro Rodriguez, Rafael
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[The Effect of Electoral Laws on the Partisan Fragmentation in Chile, 1999-2008: Strategic Vote, Barriers to Entry and Information]
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The Effect of Electoral Laws on the Partisan Fragmentation in Chile, 1999-2008: Strategic Vote, Barriers to Entry and Information
In Latin America, institutions are either fragile or excessively strong. These are the main conclusions that can be inferred by looking at the institutionalist literature that focuses in the region. Although there are numerous studies about the effects of both traits, there are few analyses about...
Rosenblatt, Fernando
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Toro Maureira, Sergio
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[The Architecture of Cooperation: A Theoretical Proposal about Institutional Resilience]
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The Architecture of Cooperation: A Theoretical Proposal about Institutional Resilience
Alejandro Olivares, L.
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Gonzalez Bustamante, Bastian
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Toro Maureira, Sergio
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Arellano González, Juan
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Yanes Rojas, Anabel
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Zurita Tapia, Jose
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Lopes, Amanda Vitoria
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Robelo Guzman, Claudio
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Canavesi Sosa, Juan Bautista
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[NEW CHALLENGES, APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES TO STUDY POLITICAL ELITES]
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NEW CHALLENGES, APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES TO STUDY POLITICAL ELITES