Species of Capital in the Political Elite

Abstract

Species of Capital in the Political Elite"'Who governs'? The Chilean elite is famous for its staying power and the control they have exercised over the country and the state for over 200 years. Recent events in that country make this question even more relevant and important. Combining deep empirical work and wonderful theoretical insights, this book should serve as the foundation for studying the Chilean elite (and others in Latin America) for many years.

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

“…This study uses the second and fourth waves of the ISSP Religion Module for Chile conducted in 1998 and 2018 (ISSP Research Group 2000, 2020. These cross-sectional surveys in Chile are administered by the Center of Public Studies, a private nonpartisan and nonprofit academic foundation of renowned experience and reputation in such studies.…”

“…In particular, this article explores the evolution of the acceptance of homosexuality in Chile between 1998 and 2018 and investigates the role played by several individual features identified as key variables in the literature (gender, location, birth cohort, age, level of education, religiosity, political orientation, and social capital). Using the 1998 and 2018 waves of the ISSP (ISSP Research Group 2000, 2020, we perform an econometric decomposition that allows disentangling the relevance of changes in individual socioeconomic variables and the importance of the evolution of attitudes due to each characteristic. Our results suggest that changes in observed individual-level socioeconomic characteristics explain roughly 11.0 percent of the shift in attitudes.…”

“…Acceptance of homosexuality is one such topic. According to data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP Research Group 2000, 2020, over the past three decades Chile has experienced a sizable increase in people's acceptance of homosexual relationships, from barely 6.0% in 1998 to almost 40% in 2018. Chile has since followed the path of other high-income countries in Latin America, such as Argentina and Uruguay (Corrales 2017), and has promoted intense reforms to expand rights for gay and lesbian individuals (Slenders, Sieben, and Verbakel 2014).…”

Leyes electorales y diversidad de atributos sociodemográficos de los legisladores: Chile, 2013-2017

“…Históricamente, la composición de la élite chilena se ha caracterizado por mecanismos hereditarios y sociales de selección (Espinoza, 2010). Aunque los procesos de socialización han llevado a la producción de distintos tipos de capital (Cordero & Funk, 2011;Garrido-Vergara, 2020;Joignant, 2011), las élites tradicionalmente compuestas por grupos cerrados, que se educaron en los mismos colegios y universidades, donde forman sus vínculos iniciales de socialización (Joignant, 2012(Joignant, , 2014González-Bustamante & Cisternas, 2016). Además de compartir atributos tecnocráticos (González-Bustamante, 2013), la élite gobernante posee fuertes lazos familiares entre sus miembros (Garrido-Vergara, 2020).…”