La fragilidad de los consensos. Polarización ideológica en el Chile post Pinochet
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El artículo presenta evidencia de la polarización ideológica a nivel político, socioeconómico y generacional en la población chilena entre 1990 y 2017.Utilizando datos de la Encuesta de Opinión Pública del Centro de Estudios Públicos (cep), se estima indirectamente la ideología de los individuos con la metodología propuesta por Poole (1998).Los principales hallazgos son: (i) en 1993, adherentes y opositores al gobierno de turno inician un proceso de distanciamiento ideológico que se consolida a mediados de 2008; (ii) la distancia ideológica entre los niveles socioeconómicos alto y bajo empieza a aumentar desde 2005 en adelante; y, finalmente, (iii) a partir de 2011, la generación nacida antes de 1955 empieza a alejarse ideológicamente de aquellos nacidos después de 1980.
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Entre 1990 y 2017 en Chile hay indicios de un creciente distanciamiento ideológico generacional entre adultos y tercera edad y también entre individuos de diferentes niveles socioeconómicos.
“Pese a que en Chile esto último no se verifica en la actualidad, entre 1990 y 2017 hay indicios de un creciente distanciamiento ideológico generacional entre adultos y tercera edad y también entre individuos de diferentes niveles socioeconómicos, en que "opositores y adherentes tomaron distancia uno con otros y, además, se volvieron internamente más cohesionados" (Lindh et al., 2019, p. 116)”
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- Authors
- Lindh, J., Fábrega, J., & González, J.
- Affiliations
- Universidad del Desarrollo (CL)
- Adolfo Ibáñez University (CL)
- Corresponding author
- Lindh, Jaime
- Fábrega, Jorge
- González, Jorge
- Venue
- Revista de ciencia política (Santiago)
- Published
- 2019-04
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 99-127
- ISSN
- 0716-1417 (ISSN-L)
- 0718-090X
- OpenAlex
- W2948627967
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 5.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Revista de ciencia política (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Dynamics in Latin America
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
- Keywords
- ideological polarization, political ideology, ideological distance, socioeconomic disparities, generational differences, public opinion
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