CEP researcher: People no longer bet on long-term reforms, but on radical offers
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- Sociologist Aldo Mascareño said Chile’s democracy has moved away from the center of the country’s political architecture, particularly after the constitutional processes.
- He described the result as “unstable stability,” with voters turning toward radical proposals such as militarization and advancing liberalism.
Aldo Mascareño, a sociologist, academic and researcher at Chile’s Public Studies Center, said democracy has moved away from “the center of the country’s political architecture” in recent years, especially after the constitutional processes.
The center of the country’s political architecture.
Speaking about his book, “The Post-Democratic Condition in Chile: Politics on the Edge of Collapse,” written with Juan Rozas, Mascareño argued that institutions “have not delivered what we expected them to deliver.”
Institutions have not delivered what we expected them to deliver.
He described the resulting situation as “unstable stability,” saying that people no longer place their hopes in long-term reforms. Instead, he said, they are turning toward radical proposals, including militarization and the advance of liberalism.
Unstable stability.
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Originally published by Cooperativa in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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