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Garrido-Vergara, Luis

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“…For instance, the country made some progress in terms of the Egalitarian Democracy Index, which rose from 0.58 in 1998 to 0.63 in 2018 (Coppedge et al 2020), which has some support in the specialized literature (Navia 2010; Ruiz 2009). Similarly, although many authoritarian enclaves persisted in 1998 (Garretón 1999), by the end of the 2010s they had been almost completely dismantled (Garrido-Vergara 2020; Loxton 2021). Moreover, Chile seems to have experienced a noteworthy awakening in terms of political activism and claims for civil rights (Donoso and von Bülow 2017), another driver of acceptance highlighted in this literature.…”

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How Much Have We Changed? Long-Term Determinants of Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Chile

2023

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This study explores the evolution of individual attitudes toward homosexuality in Chile during the period 1998–2018. Based on microdata from the International Social Survey Programme, it finds evidence of a significant rise in the share of people accepting homosexual relationships, from 5.4 percent to 38.5 percent of the population. Observable individual-level socioeconomic characteristics are responsible for only 3.6 percentage points of this shift. In particular, the increase in educational attainment and generational replacement help to explain this trend and account for an increase of 2.6 percentage points (roughly 45 percent of the initial level of acceptance). Nevertheless, the bulk of this shift is due to structural changes in Chilean society, which may have increased acceptance across all the demographic subgroups considered in the analysis.

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