Matías Bargsted
Biographic Data
| ID | 358266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matías Bargsted |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matías |
| FAMILY NAME | Bargsted |
| SIGNATURE | BARGSTED M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5617-6230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Socioeconomic homogeneity in acquaintance networks: Occupational prestige, education, and intergenerational mobility
Political trust and elite closure: Evidence from Latin America
We examine how the degree of social closure among political elites shapes mass-level political trust in Latin America, a region marked by historically closed elites and persistently low trust. Building on contrasting perspectives, we argue that elite closure undermines citizens’ trust, but its influence also depends on a country’s long-term patterns of closure. In contexts where elites have been highly closed over time, further increases are expe…
From protest to ideology: How Social Movements Reshape Political Orientations Over Time
Justification of violence, ideological preferences, and exposure to protests: Causal evidence from the 2019 Chilean social unrest
We examine the relationship between proximity to actively policed protest events and people's willingness to justify violence against police forces. Focusing on the Chilean social uprising, a series of massive protests between 2019 and 2020, this study highlights the significant implications of law enforcement issues on government legitimacy and the potential for protest policing to escalate violence. To conduct our research, we use a difference-…
Social trust and the winner-loser gap
Social and Political Trust in a Low Trust Society
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements
This paper examines social‐psychological factors that can facilitate and hinder public support for conservative agendas over time. Using four waves of longitudinal panel data from Chile ( N = 2,394), we estimated the between‐person and within‐person associations among individuals’ self‐reported conservative ideologies, political disaffection, civic behaviour, political attitudes towards democracy and social change, and their support for conservat…
The Personal Is the Political? What Do WhatsApp Users Share and How It Matters for News Knowledge, Polarization and Participation in Chile
Mobile instant messaging services (MIMs) are important gateways to news exposure and political conversations. Nevertheless, we still know little about the specific uses and consequences of using messaging apps on other aspects of democratic citizenship. This is especially true in Latin American countries, where usage of MIMs is more widespread than any other social media. Using a two-wave panel survey conducted in the context of the 2017 Chilean …
No water in the oasis: The Chilean Spring of 2019–2020
We analyse the Chilean Spring of 2019-2020 – the fiercest social outburst in Chile during the last three decades. After discussing the combined role of long-standing grievances, political attitudes, and cultural change in triggering the outburst, we study the interplay among peaceful and violent protests and criminal activity. We argue that brutal police repression and governmental mismanagement contributed to deepening the crisis once it explode…
Protest Issues and Political Inequality in Latin America
Many studies reveal that socioeconomic resources increase protest participation, lending more political voice to the affluent and reinforcing preexisting political inequality. But existing studies ignore whether this holds across different protest issues. We argue that some issues reinforce political inequality, while other ones do not. We differentiate between survival protests-in which people react to direct threats to their material and social…
Ideological Preferences and Evolution of the Religious Cleavage in Chile, 1998–2014
This article analyses how religious orientations and ideological preferences have coevolved in Chilean society between 1998 and 2014. On the basis of the premise that people experience religion heterogeneously, we develop four hypotheses that describe possible changes in the association between these two variables. Using data from yearly national probability surveys and multinomial regression models, we obtain two general results. First, we obser…
Participación electoral en Chile. Una aproximación de edad, período y cohorte
Por medio de un análisis de edad-período-cohorte, aplicado a datos de encuestas realizadas entre 1994 y 2015, buscamos comprender el declive de la participación electoral ocurrido en Chile durante la actual era democrática. Nuestro análisis confirma algunas hipótesis previas, pero también ilumina algunas nuevas tendencias. Primero, encontramos efectos de cohorte que indican que las generaciones que votaron durante el plebiscito de 1988 tienden a …
Party Identification in an Encapsulated Party System: The Case of Postauthoritarian Chile
Since the return of democracy, party identification has been declining sharply among the Chilean public. We seek to understand this process by applying an age-period-cohort analysis to survey data from 1994 to 2014. In light of the elite-driven and socially uprooted character, or what we call the encapsulated nature, of the Chilean party system, we hypothesize that cumulative electoral experience has had a negative effect on party identification …
Political Inequality in 38 Countries: A Distributional Approach
This article presents a 'distributional' approach for the study of political inequality of voice (hereinafterPIV) which complements the prevailing 'categorical' approach. It measures distributionalPIVusing a country-level political Gini index based on the 2004ISSPsurvey applied to 38 countries. This measure indicates how evenly political voice - as measured by individual engagement in several political participation activities - is distributed am…
Mapping Religious Change in Latin America
Using Latinobarometer survey data, we study the evolution of religious identities among the adult populations of 17 Latin American countries between 1996 and 2013. We find several interesting patterns. First, the current religious landscape is highly dynamic and is becoming increasingly pluralist among a majority of countries. Changes derive not only from the growth of Evangelicals, as commonly assumed, but also from the sharp rise in irreligious…
Social cleavages and political dealignment in contemporary Chile, 1995–2009
There is abundant research on how social cleavages shape political preferences in developed countries with uninterrupted democracies, but we know less about this topic for middle income countries with recently restored democracies. In this analysis of the Chilean case, we examine with Latinobarometer survey data from 1995 to 2009 the evolution of social cleavages as shapers of political preferences (measured with a left–right self-placement scale…
Coalition‐Targeted Duvergerian Voting: How Expectations Affect Voter Choice under Proportional Representation
Inspired by analyses of majoritarian systems, students of consensual polities have analyzed strategic voting due to barriers to party success, namely, district magnitude and threshold. Given the prevalence of coalition governments in proportional systems, we analyze a type of strategic voting seldom studied: how expected coalition composition affects voter choice. We identify Duvergerian behavior by voters targeted at the coalition formation stag…
Coalition‐Targeted Duvergerian Voting: How Expectations Affect Voter Choice under Proportional Representation
Inspired by analyses of majoritarian systems, students of consensual polities have analyzed strategic voting due to barriers to party success, namely, district magnitude and threshold. Given the prevalence of coalition governments in proportional systems, we analyze a type of strategic voting seldom studied: how expected coalition composition affects voter choice. We identify Duvergerian behavior by voters targeted at the coalition formation stag…
No water in the oasis: The Chilean Spring of 2019–2020
We analyse the Chilean Spring of 2019-2020 – the fiercest social outburst in Chile during the last three decades. After discussing the combined role of long-standing grievances, political attitudes, and cultural change in triggering the outburst, we study the interplay among peaceful and violent protests and criminal activity. We argue that brutal police repression and governmental mismanagement contributed to deepening the crisis once it explode…
Social cleavages and political dealignment in contemporary Chile, 1995–2009
There is abundant research on how social cleavages shape political preferences in developed countries with uninterrupted democracies, but we know less about this topic for middle income countries with recently restored democracies. In this analysis of the Chilean case, we examine with Latinobarometer survey data from 1995 to 2009 the evolution of social cleavages as shapers of political preferences (measured with a left–right self-placement scale…
Mapping Religious Change in Latin America
Using Latinobarometer survey data, we study the evolution of religious identities among the adult populations of 17 Latin American countries between 1996 and 2013. We find several interesting patterns. First, the current religious landscape is highly dynamic and is becoming increasingly pluralist among a majority of countries. Changes derive not only from the growth of Evangelicals, as commonly assumed, but also from the sharp rise in irreligious…
Party Identification in an Encapsulated Party System: The Case of Postauthoritarian Chile
Since the return of democracy, party identification has been declining sharply among the Chilean public. We seek to understand this process by applying an age-period-cohort analysis to survey data from 1994 to 2014. In light of the elite-driven and socially uprooted character, or what we call the encapsulated nature, of the Chilean party system, we hypothesize that cumulative electoral experience has had a negative effect on party identification …
Social and Political Trust in a Low Trust Society
Political Inequality in 38 Countries: A Distributional Approach
This article presents a 'distributional' approach for the study of political inequality of voice (hereinafterPIV) which complements the prevailing 'categorical' approach. It measures distributionalPIVusing a country-level political Gini index based on the 2004ISSPsurvey applied to 38 countries. This measure indicates how evenly political voice - as measured by individual engagement in several political participation activities - is distributed am…
Participación electoral en Chile. Una aproximación de edad, período y cohorte
Por medio de un análisis de edad-período-cohorte, aplicado a datos de encuestas realizadas entre 1994 y 2015, buscamos comprender el declive de la participación electoral ocurrido en Chile durante la actual era democrática. Nuestro análisis confirma algunas hipótesis previas, pero también ilumina algunas nuevas tendencias. Primero, encontramos efectos de cohorte que indican que las generaciones que votaron durante el plebiscito de 1988 tienden a …
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements
This paper examines social‐psychological factors that can facilitate and hinder public support for conservative agendas over time. Using four waves of longitudinal panel data from Chile ( N = 2,394), we estimated the between‐person and within‐person associations among individuals’ self‐reported conservative ideologies, political disaffection, civic behaviour, political attitudes towards democracy and social change, and their support for conservat…
Social trust and the winner-loser gap
Protest Issues and Political Inequality in Latin America
Many studies reveal that socioeconomic resources increase protest participation, lending more political voice to the affluent and reinforcing preexisting political inequality. But existing studies ignore whether this holds across different protest issues. We argue that some issues reinforce political inequality, while other ones do not. We differentiate between survival protests-in which people react to direct threats to their material and social…
Coalition‐Targeted Duvergerian Voting: How Expectations Affect Voter Choice under Proportional Representation
Inspired by analyses of majoritarian systems, students of consensual polities have analyzed strategic voting due to barriers to party success, namely, district magnitude and threshold. Given the prevalence of coalition governments in proportional systems, we analyze a type of strategic voting seldom studied: how expected coalition composition affects voter choice. We identify Duvergerian behavior by voters targeted at the coalition formation stag…
Social cleavages and political dealignment in contemporary Chile, 1995–2009
There is abundant research on how social cleavages shape political preferences in developed countries with uninterrupted democracies, but we know less about this topic for middle income countries with recently restored democracies. In this analysis of the Chilean case, we examine with Latinobarometer survey data from 1995 to 2009 the evolution of social cleavages as shapers of political preferences (measured with a left–right self-placement scale…
Mapping Religious Change in Latin America
Using Latinobarometer survey data, we study the evolution of religious identities among the adult populations of 17 Latin American countries between 1996 and 2013. We find several interesting patterns. First, the current religious landscape is highly dynamic and is becoming increasingly pluralist among a majority of countries. Changes derive not only from the growth of Evangelicals, as commonly assumed, but also from the sharp rise in irreligious…
Party Identification in an Encapsulated Party System: The Case of Postauthoritarian Chile
Since the return of democracy, party identification has been declining sharply among the Chilean public. We seek to understand this process by applying an age-period-cohort analysis to survey data from 1994 to 2014. In light of the elite-driven and socially uprooted character, or what we call the encapsulated nature, of the Chilean party system, we hypothesize that cumulative electoral experience has had a negative effect on party identification …
Political Inequality in 38 Countries: A Distributional Approach
This article presents a 'distributional' approach for the study of political inequality of voice (hereinafterPIV) which complements the prevailing 'categorical' approach. It measures distributionalPIVusing a country-level political Gini index based on the 2004ISSPsurvey applied to 38 countries. This measure indicates how evenly political voice - as measured by individual engagement in several political participation activities - is distributed am…
Ideological Preferences and Evolution of the Religious Cleavage in Chile, 1998–2014
This article analyses how religious orientations and ideological preferences have coevolved in Chilean society between 1998 and 2014. On the basis of the premise that people experience religion heterogeneously, we develop four hypotheses that describe possible changes in the association between these two variables. Using data from yearly national probability surveys and multinomial regression models, we obtain two general results. First, we obser…
Participación electoral en Chile. Una aproximación de edad, período y cohorte
Por medio de un análisis de edad-período-cohorte, aplicado a datos de encuestas realizadas entre 1994 y 2015, buscamos comprender el declive de la participación electoral ocurrido en Chile durante la actual era democrática. Nuestro análisis confirma algunas hipótesis previas, pero también ilumina algunas nuevas tendencias. Primero, encontramos efectos de cohorte que indican que las generaciones que votaron durante el plebiscito de 1988 tienden a …
Protest Issues and Political Inequality in Latin America
Many studies reveal that socioeconomic resources increase protest participation, lending more political voice to the affluent and reinforcing preexisting political inequality. But existing studies ignore whether this holds across different protest issues. We argue that some issues reinforce political inequality, while other ones do not. We differentiate between survival protests-in which people react to direct threats to their material and social…
The Personal Is the Political? What Do WhatsApp Users Share and How It Matters for News Knowledge, Polarization and Participation in Chile
Mobile instant messaging services (MIMs) are important gateways to news exposure and political conversations. Nevertheless, we still know little about the specific uses and consequences of using messaging apps on other aspects of democratic citizenship. This is especially true in Latin American countries, where usage of MIMs is more widespread than any other social media. Using a two-wave panel survey conducted in the context of the 2017 Chilean …
No water in the oasis: The Chilean Spring of 2019–2020
We analyse the Chilean Spring of 2019-2020 – the fiercest social outburst in Chile during the last three decades. After discussing the combined role of long-standing grievances, political attitudes, and cultural change in triggering the outburst, we study the interplay among peaceful and violent protests and criminal activity. We argue that brutal police repression and governmental mismanagement contributed to deepening the crisis once it explode…
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements
This paper examines social‐psychological factors that can facilitate and hinder public support for conservative agendas over time. Using four waves of longitudinal panel data from Chile ( N = 2,394), we estimated the between‐person and within‐person associations among individuals’ self‐reported conservative ideologies, political disaffection, civic behaviour, political attitudes towards democracy and social change, and their support for conservat…
Social and Political Trust in a Low Trust Society
Social trust and the winner-loser gap
From protest to ideology: How Social Movements Reshape Political Orientations Over Time
Justification of violence, ideological preferences, and exposure to protests: Causal evidence from the 2019 Chilean social unrest
We examine the relationship between proximity to actively policed protest events and people's willingness to justify violence against police forces. Focusing on the Chilean social uprising, a series of massive protests between 2019 and 2020, this study highlights the significant implications of law enforcement issues on government legitimacy and the potential for protest policing to escalate violence. To conduct our research, we use a difference-…
Socioeconomic homogeneity in acquaintance networks: Occupational prestige, education, and intergenerational mobility
Political trust and elite closure: Evidence from Latin America
We examine how the degree of social closure among political elites shapes mass-level political trust in Latin America, a region marked by historically closed elites and persistently low trust. Building on contrasting perspectives, we argue that elite closure undermines citizens’ trust, but its influence also depends on a country’s long-term patterns of closure. In contexts where elites have been highly closed over time, further increases are expe…
Political science (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Ideology (6 works)