| Imprint: |
Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya) 2005 |
| Abstract: |
The focus of this thesis is the evolution of programmatic polarization in the post-authoritarian Chilean party system at the elite level. It shows the distance/proximity between parties located along the left-right ideological continuum on three sets of issues. The paper demonstrates that important changes have taken place in the meaning of the right and, especially, left poles. This implies convergence on socio-economic issues between parties, but persistence of differences on religious-value issues, and on issues related to the authoritarian/democratic cleavage. Distance between the poles has been reduced, and as a result the center has lost its own political space. In addition, the paper shows that the pattern followed by programmatic polarization at the elite level is explained by the authoritarian experience, the institutional framework, and socio-economic transformations. Together with this factors, the degree of negotiability of the issues and the cross-cutting nature of the cleavages have also shaped polarization. |
| Rights: |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Series: |
Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Working papers |
| Series: |
Working papers (Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya)) ; 236 |
| Document: |
Working paper |
| Subject: |
Eleccions ;
Xile ;
Partits polítics ;
Política i govern ;
1990-1999 |
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