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Power, legitimacy, and institutions in the october 2019 uprising in Chile

Published inLatin American perspectives, 0094582X2211249
Publication date2022-09-22
First online date2022-09-22
Abstract

The 2019 uprising in Chile was the outcome of an erosion of political arrangements and the politicization of popular unrest that developed over three decades. Two explanations for it—the political mobilization of the groups that emerged from the neoliberal reforms (the “new people” approach) and the mismatch between institutions and society (the “decoupling” approach)—can be reconciled by emphasizing the connections between elite and popular politics. Analyzing the long-standing relationship between power, legitimacy, and political institutions provides a framework for understanding this and other events of massive unrest.

El levantamiento de 2019 en Chile resultó de una erosión de los acuerdos políticos y la politización del malestar popular desarrollado a lo largo de tres décadas. Podemos reconciliar dos de las explicaciones al respecto—la movilización política de los grupos surgidos de las reformas neoliberales (el enfoque de la “gente nueva”) y el desajuste entre las instituciones y la sociedad (el enfoque de “desacoplamiento”)—si enfatizamos las conexiones entre la élite y la política popular. El análisis de la relación de larga data entre el poder, la legitimidad y las instituciones políticas nos proporciona un marco posible para entender este y otros eventos de disturbios masivos.

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  • European Commission - MOBILIZING FOR BASIC INCOMES. SOCIAL INNOVATION IN MOTION [839483]
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GUZMAN CONCHA, Cesar Augusto. Power, legitimacy, and institutions in the october 2019 uprising in Chile. In: Latin American perspectives, 2022, p. 0094582X2211249. doi: 10.1177/0094582X221124919
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