Andrés Dockendorff
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrés Dockendorff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrés |
| FAMILY NAME | Dockendorff |
| SIGNATURE | DOCKENDORFF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3434-7793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Interest Groups and Legislators’ Strategic Rhetoric Towards China During the Ratification of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in Latin America
This article analyses the speeches of legislators and the interventions of interest groups during the ratification procedures of the Free Trade Agreements signed by Chile, Costa Rica, and Ecuador with China. Our descriptive results suggest a focus on economic issues at the expense of human rights and democracy. Additionally, the rhetorical strategies employed by both lobbies and politicians reinforce the idea of non-alignment or strategic autonom…
Echo chamber? Lobbying at the failed Chilean constitutional convention
Good constituency members? Legislative particularism and localism in Chile (1932–1973)
What makes a legislator promote or thwart trade liberalization in developing democracies
This paper investigates how ideological polarization and constituency factors influence legislators’ voting behaviour on Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). We explore the Chilean case, where trade policy has recently become highly politicized, to test three key relationships. First, we argue that right-wing legislators are more likely to champion FTAs when trade becomes a highly politicized issue, as the ratification of the CPTPP shows. Conversely, wh…
Do Women Legislators Represent Disadvantaged Groups More Actively? Evidence from Chile
This research examines whether women legislators represent more than their male counterparts the interests of disadvantaged groups in society, such as women themselves, the poor, migrants, LGBT groups, or indigenous peoples. Our main hypothesis is that women legislators are more active in promoting the interests of disadvantaged groups. Also, we expect to observe disparities in the representation of disadvantaged groups as a function of legislato…
Strategies, access and influence
Electoral vulnerability and localism under two electoral regimes
Constituency Service and Representation
This note examines and tests the determinants of constituency service in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. We argue that socio-demographic factors lead towards differences in the provision of constituency service. We use a new data set of meetings between legislators, constituents, and groups to provide evidence for two main hypotheses. First, Chilean deputies from more remote districts devote a higher proportion of their meetings to addressing lo…
When Do Interest Groups Lobby Legislators in Strong Presidential Systems
When do interest groups target legislators to approach or lobby under strong presidentialism? This article explores two hypotheses. First, interest groups and lobbyists seek to access committee chairs with gatekeeping power, even in those jurisdictions where the executive holds (most) exclusivity to initiate legislation ( Gatekeeping Hypothesis ). Second, interest groups and lobbyists target legislators who introduce more bills on issues that con…
Substantive Representation of Women’s Interests
This research note presents an empirical test aimed at untangling the factors that explain the substantive representation of women's interests in the legislative arena. We hand-coded over 7000 parliamentarians' bills introduced in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 2020. Our results show, first, that female legislators are more active than men in sponsoring bills that favour women's interests, especially regarding feminist claims. S…
Why are some parliamentarians’ bills more likely to progress? Sponsorship as a signal
This article offers an empirical test of why some legislators’ bills are more likely to move forward in the legislative process. We argue that who signs the bill matters when it comes to the level of support that the proposal receives. Successful bills will be sponsored by a greater number of members ( bandwagon factor) and political adversaries ( support across the aisle factor). On the contrary, failed initiatives will be those sponsored by ine…
When do Legislators Respond to their Constituencies in Party Controlled Assemblies? Evidence from Chile
Previous research suggests that legislators respond to their constituencies when they are vulnerable electoral candidates. This article argues that the legislators that focus on their constituencies (perhaps at the expense of the broader national constituency) will be born and raised in the region where their district is located (biographical factors), junior members of the assembly (intraparty position), and from thinly populated districts (dist…
Who is ready to climb the hill? The effect of legislative activity on promotion to higher offices in Chile
Previous research suggests that bill initiation is a mechanism used by legislators to foster personal votes. This article puts forward a theory whereby legislative activity is understood as a form of party service. Bill initiation records are used by parties to inform their decisions on who is ready to be promoted. The theory is evaluated using an original data-set from the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. Our empirical findings make a strong case fo…
Cuarenta años no son nada
On the occasion of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the breakdown of democracy in Chile, a sequence of events illustrates a possible replacement of the political cleavage or the authoritarianism-democracy division in the Chilean party system. This essay is part of an alternative line of argument to the hypothesis that emphasize the search for social structural differences as the basis of the alignments of the party system, centered ar…
Nominando candidatos con “encuestas en mano
La inexistencia de mecanismos institucionalizados que permitan seleccionar a los aspirantes a cargos de representación política en Chile, ha transformado a las encuestas en verdaderos dispositivos de elección de candidatos al interior de los partidos y coaliciones, que compiten en los distintos niveles de representación popular. De esta manera, en algunos casos, las encuestas electorales se han transformado en virtuales ‘primarias’ al constituirs…
When do Legislators Respond to their Constituencies in Party Controlled Assemblies? Evidence from Chile
Previous research suggests that legislators respond to their constituencies when they are vulnerable electoral candidates. This article argues that the legislators that focus on their constituencies (perhaps at the expense of the broader national constituency) will be born and raised in the region where their district is located (biographical factors), junior members of the assembly (intraparty position), and from thinly populated districts (dist…
Who is ready to climb the hill? The effect of legislative activity on promotion to higher offices in Chile
Previous research suggests that bill initiation is a mechanism used by legislators to foster personal votes. This article puts forward a theory whereby legislative activity is understood as a form of party service. Bill initiation records are used by parties to inform their decisions on who is ready to be promoted. The theory is evaluated using an original data-set from the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. Our empirical findings make a strong case fo…
Why are some parliamentarians’ bills more likely to progress? Sponsorship as a signal
This article offers an empirical test of why some legislators’ bills are more likely to move forward in the legislative process. We argue that who signs the bill matters when it comes to the level of support that the proposal receives. Successful bills will be sponsored by a greater number of members ( bandwagon factor) and political adversaries ( support across the aisle factor). On the contrary, failed initiatives will be those sponsored by ine…
Constituency Service and Representation
This note examines and tests the determinants of constituency service in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. We argue that socio-demographic factors lead towards differences in the provision of constituency service. We use a new data set of meetings between legislators, constituents, and groups to provide evidence for two main hypotheses. First, Chilean deputies from more remote districts devote a higher proportion of their meetings to addressing lo…
Electoral vulnerability and localism under two electoral regimes
When Do Interest Groups Lobby Legislators in Strong Presidential Systems
When do interest groups target legislators to approach or lobby under strong presidentialism? This article explores two hypotheses. First, interest groups and lobbyists seek to access committee chairs with gatekeeping power, even in those jurisdictions where the executive holds (most) exclusivity to initiate legislation ( Gatekeeping Hypothesis ). Second, interest groups and lobbyists target legislators who introduce more bills on issues that con…
Strategies, access and influence
Substantive Representation of Women’s Interests
This research note presents an empirical test aimed at untangling the factors that explain the substantive representation of women's interests in the legislative arena. We hand-coded over 7000 parliamentarians' bills introduced in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 2020. Our results show, first, that female legislators are more active than men in sponsoring bills that favour women's interests, especially regarding feminist claims. S…
Nominando candidatos con “encuestas en mano
La inexistencia de mecanismos institucionalizados que permitan seleccionar a los aspirantes a cargos de representación política en Chile, ha transformado a las encuestas en verdaderos dispositivos de elección de candidatos al interior de los partidos y coaliciones, que compiten en los distintos niveles de representación popular. De esta manera, en algunos casos, las encuestas electorales se han transformado en virtuales ‘primarias’ al constituirs…
Cuarenta años no son nada
On the occasion of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the breakdown of democracy in Chile, a sequence of events illustrates a possible replacement of the political cleavage or the authoritarianism-democracy division in the Chilean party system. This essay is part of an alternative line of argument to the hypothesis that emphasize the search for social structural differences as the basis of the alignments of the party system, centered ar…
When do Legislators Respond to their Constituencies in Party Controlled Assemblies? Evidence from Chile
Previous research suggests that legislators respond to their constituencies when they are vulnerable electoral candidates. This article argues that the legislators that focus on their constituencies (perhaps at the expense of the broader national constituency) will be born and raised in the region where their district is located (biographical factors), junior members of the assembly (intraparty position), and from thinly populated districts (dist…
Who is ready to climb the hill? The effect of legislative activity on promotion to higher offices in Chile
Previous research suggests that bill initiation is a mechanism used by legislators to foster personal votes. This article puts forward a theory whereby legislative activity is understood as a form of party service. Bill initiation records are used by parties to inform their decisions on who is ready to be promoted. The theory is evaluated using an original data-set from the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. Our empirical findings make a strong case fo…
Why are some parliamentarians’ bills more likely to progress? Sponsorship as a signal
This article offers an empirical test of why some legislators’ bills are more likely to move forward in the legislative process. We argue that who signs the bill matters when it comes to the level of support that the proposal receives. Successful bills will be sponsored by a greater number of members ( bandwagon factor) and political adversaries ( support across the aisle factor). On the contrary, failed initiatives will be those sponsored by ine…
Substantive Representation of Women’s Interests
This research note presents an empirical test aimed at untangling the factors that explain the substantive representation of women's interests in the legislative arena. We hand-coded over 7000 parliamentarians' bills introduced in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 2020. Our results show, first, that female legislators are more active than men in sponsoring bills that favour women's interests, especially regarding feminist claims. S…
When Do Interest Groups Lobby Legislators in Strong Presidential Systems
When do interest groups target legislators to approach or lobby under strong presidentialism? This article explores two hypotheses. First, interest groups and lobbyists seek to access committee chairs with gatekeeping power, even in those jurisdictions where the executive holds (most) exclusivity to initiate legislation ( Gatekeeping Hypothesis ). Second, interest groups and lobbyists target legislators who introduce more bills on issues that con…
Strategies, access and influence
Electoral vulnerability and localism under two electoral regimes
Constituency Service and Representation
This note examines and tests the determinants of constituency service in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies. We argue that socio-demographic factors lead towards differences in the provision of constituency service. We use a new data set of meetings between legislators, constituents, and groups to provide evidence for two main hypotheses. First, Chilean deputies from more remote districts devote a higher proportion of their meetings to addressing lo…
Echo chamber? Lobbying at the failed Chilean constitutional convention
Good constituency members? Legislative particularism and localism in Chile (1932–1973)
What makes a legislator promote or thwart trade liberalization in developing democracies
This paper investigates how ideological polarization and constituency factors influence legislators’ voting behaviour on Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). We explore the Chilean case, where trade policy has recently become highly politicized, to test three key relationships. First, we argue that right-wing legislators are more likely to champion FTAs when trade becomes a highly politicized issue, as the ratification of the CPTPP shows. Conversely, wh…
Do Women Legislators Represent Disadvantaged Groups More Actively? Evidence from Chile
This research examines whether women legislators represent more than their male counterparts the interests of disadvantaged groups in society, such as women themselves, the poor, migrants, LGBT groups, or indigenous peoples. Our main hypothesis is that women legislators are more active in promoting the interests of disadvantaged groups. Also, we expect to observe disparities in the representation of disadvantaged groups as a function of legislato…
Interest Groups and Legislators’ Strategic Rhetoric Towards China During the Ratification of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in Latin America
This article analyses the speeches of legislators and the interventions of interest groups during the ratification procedures of the Free Trade Agreements signed by Chile, Costa Rica, and Ecuador with China. Our descriptive results suggest a focus on economic issues at the expense of human rights and democracy. Additionally, the rhetorical strategies employed by both lobbies and politicians reinforce the idea of non-alignment or strategic autonom…
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 works) · Legislature (4 works)