Reevaluating the Role of Ideology in Chile

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ID2987481
AuthorsGiancarlo Visconti (0000-0002-0914-1497, Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume63
Issue2
Pages1-25
Publication date2021-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/lap.2021.3
OpenAlexW3160057080
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited65

Voters' ideological stances have long been considered one of the most important factors for understanding electoral choices in Chile. In recent years, however, the literature has begun to call this premise into question, due to several changes in the Chilean political landscape: the current crisis of representation, the high programmatic congruence between the two main coalitions, the decline in the political relevance of the dictatorship, and the rise of nonprogrammatic electoral strategies. In addition to these transformations, Chile switched to voluntary voting in 2012. This article studies whether ideology still informs electoral choices in Chile in an era of voluntary voting. It implements a conjoint survey experiment in low-to-middle-income neighborhoods in Santiago, where voters would be expected to be less ideological. It shows that candidates' ideological labels are crucial for understanding the electoral decisions of a large part of the sample, particularly among likely voters

Democracy · Dictatorship · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Premise · Sociology · Voting · Voting behavior · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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