Pedro Fierro
Biographic Data
| ID | 4606404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedro Fierro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedro |
| FAMILY NAME | Fierro |
| SIGNATURE | FIERRO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adolfo Ibáñez University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8910-9461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voting Red Again: How Social Capital and Local Change Drove the Trump Swing
Social capital has long been regarded as a bulwark of democratic life. Yet in the United States—as across much of the democratic world—some of the communities with the densest social ties have proved the most receptive to antisystem politics. Drawing on county‐level data for the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections, this paper shows that the political consequences of social capital depend on its composition rather than its volume. Bonding soci…
Place matters for the poor: Digitisation and spatial inequality in Chile
This paper examines the extent to which digitalisation can foster political inclusion in the context of a centralised political system with spatial inequalities. It investigates the factors associated with the digitalisation of 343 municipal governments and how both territorial and individual-level characteristics relate to attitudinal and behavioural digital civic engagement, using data from 9924 face-to-face surveys in the Chilean region of Val…
Feeling the split: Territorial divide and political emotions in the Chilean constituent processes (2022–2023)
This study analyses the influence of territorial marginalisation in shaping negative political emotions. Focusing on the Chilean Constituent Processes of 2022 and 2023, the research examines two waves of face-to-face surveys conducted in the Chilean region of Valparaíso, with a combined sample size of 3324. The findings reveal that individuals living in urban areas distant from the political centre exhibit markedly negative emotions towards the p…
Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News Consumption
This study examines the relation between news consumption and fostering public deliberation within democratic systems. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas’s concepts of understanding orientation (consensus-oriented, communicative rationality) and strategic orientation (goal-oriented, instrumental rationality), it explores how news media can either facilitate rational communication in public debates or, alternatively, encourage strategic interventions. To …
The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation
Recent research indicates the existence of ‘places that don’t matter’, where residents harbour feelings of abandonment, prompting a tilt towards anti-system narratives. Yet, the effects of territorial marginalisation extend beyond voting behaviour, influencing deeper underlying factors. Utilising data from 9924 cases in the region of Valparaiso in Chile, this study reveals that living in politically marginalised cities in contexts of high politic…
Geographies of discontent: Measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021)
Political discontent, frequently mirrored in voting patterns, extends beyond ballot votes. By focusing on Valparaiso, Chile, we introduce a more comprehensive measure, external political efficacy (EPE), capturing a sense of abandonment and gauging public sentiment towards the political system’s responsiveness to their needs. Our analysis addresses individual and area-level factors underpinning individual variations in EPE. The evidence suggests t…
Political Disaffection in the Digital Age: The Use of Social Media and the Gap in Internal and External Efficacy
This work analyzes the relationship between social media use and the development of internal and external political efficacy, using five 1,650-person polls conducted in 2017–2021 in the 10 most populated municipalities of in the Valparaiso Region in Chile, a country characterized by high levels of political discontent and social protests, especially in 2019. With Structural Equation Models, we report positive impacts of different magnitudes of th…
The center-periphery cleavage and online political efficacy (OPE): Territorial and democratic divide in Chile, 2018–2020
Recent works have coined the term Online Political Efficacy (OPE) to assess the impact of Internet use on the perceived political empowerment of citizens. As the classic concept of political efficacy distinguishes between internal (IPE) and external (EPE) efficacies, we seek to confirm the usefulness of a new indicator of political efficacy for online engagement and assess the impact of the territory where people reside on OPE. Although OPE is mo…
How people access the internet and the democratic divide: Evidence from the Chilean region of Valparaiso 2017, 2018 and 2019
Aproximaciones teóricas sobre el rol de la publicidad electoral en contextos de malestar
Aproximaciones tericas sobre el rol de
Measuring Political Attitudes in New Democracies: The Case of Chile
The aim of this work is to analyze three political attitudes: internal efficacy, external efficacy, and political interest, as variables that can explain people’s disaffection. We aim to determine the impact of short-term and sociodemographic variables on these three political attitudes in the context of Chile. A survey, carried out by GFK-Adimark between March 3, 2016 and April 6, 2016, was used to answer our main research questions. In the surv…
The center-periphery cleavage and online political efficacy (OPE): Territorial and democratic divide in Chile, 2018–2020
Recent works have coined the term Online Political Efficacy (OPE) to assess the impact of Internet use on the perceived political empowerment of citizens. As the classic concept of political efficacy distinguishes between internal (IPE) and external (EPE) efficacies, we seek to confirm the usefulness of a new indicator of political efficacy for online engagement and assess the impact of the territory where people reside on OPE. Although OPE is mo…
Political Disaffection in the Digital Age: The Use of Social Media and the Gap in Internal and External Efficacy
This work analyzes the relationship between social media use and the development of internal and external political efficacy, using five 1,650-person polls conducted in 2017–2021 in the 10 most populated municipalities of in the Valparaiso Region in Chile, a country characterized by high levels of political discontent and social protests, especially in 2019. With Structural Equation Models, we report positive impacts of different magnitudes of th…
Geographies of discontent: Measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021)
Political discontent, frequently mirrored in voting patterns, extends beyond ballot votes. By focusing on Valparaiso, Chile, we introduce a more comprehensive measure, external political efficacy (EPE), capturing a sense of abandonment and gauging public sentiment towards the political system’s responsiveness to their needs. Our analysis addresses individual and area-level factors underpinning individual variations in EPE. The evidence suggests t…
How people access the internet and the democratic divide: Evidence from the Chilean region of Valparaiso 2017, 2018 and 2019
Measuring Political Attitudes in New Democracies: The Case of Chile
The aim of this work is to analyze three political attitudes: internal efficacy, external efficacy, and political interest, as variables that can explain people’s disaffection. We aim to determine the impact of short-term and sociodemographic variables on these three political attitudes in the context of Chile. A survey, carried out by GFK-Adimark between March 3, 2016 and April 6, 2016, was used to answer our main research questions. In the surv…
Aproximaciones teóricas sobre el rol de la publicidad electoral en contextos de malestar
Aproximaciones tericas sobre el rol de
How people access the internet and the democratic divide: Evidence from the Chilean region of Valparaiso 2017, 2018 and 2019
The center-periphery cleavage and online political efficacy (OPE): Territorial and democratic divide in Chile, 2018–2020
Recent works have coined the term Online Political Efficacy (OPE) to assess the impact of Internet use on the perceived political empowerment of citizens. As the classic concept of political efficacy distinguishes between internal (IPE) and external (EPE) efficacies, we seek to confirm the usefulness of a new indicator of political efficacy for online engagement and assess the impact of the territory where people reside on OPE. Although OPE is mo…
Political Disaffection in the Digital Age: The Use of Social Media and the Gap in Internal and External Efficacy
This work analyzes the relationship between social media use and the development of internal and external political efficacy, using five 1,650-person polls conducted in 2017–2021 in the 10 most populated municipalities of in the Valparaiso Region in Chile, a country characterized by high levels of political discontent and social protests, especially in 2019. With Structural Equation Models, we report positive impacts of different magnitudes of th…
Geographies of discontent: Measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021)
Political discontent, frequently mirrored in voting patterns, extends beyond ballot votes. By focusing on Valparaiso, Chile, we introduce a more comprehensive measure, external political efficacy (EPE), capturing a sense of abandonment and gauging public sentiment towards the political system’s responsiveness to their needs. Our analysis addresses individual and area-level factors underpinning individual variations in EPE. The evidence suggests t…
Democracy, Deliberation, and Media: The Role of Incidental Exposure and News Consumption
This study examines the relation between news consumption and fostering public deliberation within democratic systems. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas’s concepts of understanding orientation (consensus-oriented, communicative rationality) and strategic orientation (goal-oriented, instrumental rationality), it explores how news media can either facilitate rational communication in public debates or, alternatively, encourage strategic interventions. To …
The effects of marginalisation in areas of high political centralisation
Recent research indicates the existence of ‘places that don’t matter’, where residents harbour feelings of abandonment, prompting a tilt towards anti-system narratives. Yet, the effects of territorial marginalisation extend beyond voting behaviour, influencing deeper underlying factors. Utilising data from 9924 cases in the region of Valparaiso in Chile, this study reveals that living in politically marginalised cities in contexts of high politic…
Voting Red Again: How Social Capital and Local Change Drove the Trump Swing
Social capital has long been regarded as a bulwark of democratic life. Yet in the United States—as across much of the democratic world—some of the communities with the densest social ties have proved the most receptive to antisystem politics. Drawing on county‐level data for the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections, this paper shows that the political consequences of social capital depend on its composition rather than its volume. Bonding soci…
Place matters for the poor: Digitisation and spatial inequality in Chile
This paper examines the extent to which digitalisation can foster political inclusion in the context of a centralised political system with spatial inequalities. It investigates the factors associated with the digitalisation of 343 municipal governments and how both territorial and individual-level characteristics relate to attitudinal and behavioural digital civic engagement, using data from 9924 face-to-face surveys in the Chilean region of Val…
Feeling the split: Territorial divide and political emotions in the Chilean constituent processes (2022–2023)
This study analyses the influence of territorial marginalisation in shaping negative political emotions. Focusing on the Chilean Constituent Processes of 2022 and 2023, the research examines two waves of face-to-face surveys conducted in the Chilean region of Valparaíso, with a combined sample size of 3324. The findings reveal that individuals living in urban areas distant from the political centre exhibit markedly negative emotions towards the p…
Politics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Democracy (3 works) · E-Government and Public Services (3 works) · Political efficacy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)