Los discursos públicos sobre la gobernabilidad en Chile como relatos de acción pública

Un Enfoque Cognitivista Sobre La Importación De Las Ideas

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ID4046168
AuthorsCecilia Baeza-Rodríguez (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-01-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNuevo mundo mundos nuevos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1626-0252 • E-ISSN: 1626-0252
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/nuevomundo.11042
OpenAlexW2038464860
LanguageES
Citations received1
References cited12

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the notion of governability is ever-present in scientific, political and media discourses in Chile. How has this notion - initially linked to conservative streams within American political science – come to play a central role in the legitimating discourses of the Chilean political class? This rhetorical success constitutes an interesting case study to understand the role of cognitive frames in the appropriation/translation of imported ideas. Our hypothesis is that the importation of this term has filled an extraordinary void of meaning since the advent of the “consensus democracy”. In the context of a restricted democracy full of authoritarian enclaves, the notion of governability has played a role of ordering discourse: by articulating an acceptable narrative of "modern" democracy, in which the capacity to govern only emanates from a technocratic and stable government, the term gives the appearance of solving the contradictions of democratic transition

Appropriation · Democracy · Epistemology · Geography · Humanities · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Technocracy · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Political Theory and Democracy · Sociology, Governance, and Technology

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