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I was born on October 19, 1974 in Santiago, Chile. Due to a syndrome called Meromelia, I was born with all of my limbs incomplete. Chile of the late twentieth century was a very hostile society toward people with disabilities, without accessibility in the buildings and streets. When I was suppose...

Lipset and Rokkan's (Party system and voter alignments: cross national perspectives, Lipset and Rokkan eds., New York: Free Press, pp. 1-64, ) sociological model of cleavages and the so-called 'freezing hypothesis' dominate theorizing about party system formation. Torcal and Mainwaring (Br. J. Po...

This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 and 2001. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high. The purpose of this paper is to apply a binomial pro bit model and split analysis into assessment of individuals and households on ...

El IPIS constituye un indicador relativo de la capacidad de los países para incubar y desarrollar iniciativas de innovación social. El IPIS se construye combinando un Índice e Innovación y un Índice de Propósito Social, cada uno de ellos con igual ponderación

Many Western democracies have implemented multiculturalism to integrate different minority groups, including immigrants. What happens with countries that are recently experiencing an increasing growth in their immigration rates? This is the case of Chile. As a consequence of continuing economic g...

mHealth is a practical, useful, and available tool for one-way or two-way communication between health professionals and patients. It is especially promising in countries such as Chile, with widespread and growing mobile telephone coverage that is very well accepted by the public. Our objective i...