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Political Performance of the Party Elites After Pinochet: 1990–2010

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This chapter describes and analyses the electoral evolution of the Chilean party elite between 1990 and 2010. After the end of the dictatorship and the subsequent return to democratic elections in the late 1980s, the centre-left Concertación and the right-wing Alianza por Chile coalitions established a partyarchy (Siavelis, 2009a). As shown by various scholars, competition between these two multi-party coalitions dominated electoral and legislative politics between 1990 and 2010 (Alemán & Saiegh, Comparative Politics 253–272, 2007; Navia, Pathways to Power. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America, Penn State University Press, 2008). They exercised control over the political system and held almost all the seats in both chambers of Congress. The Concertación and the Alianza maintained total control of municipal, congressional and presidential elections between 1990 and 2010. Election results demonstrate the Concertación’s domination of political power. It won all elections from 1989 through to the 2008 municipal elections when the Alianza obtained more votes in the election for mayors. It went on to lose the 2009 presidential election when the new Coalición por el Cambio (Coalition for Change), which had replaced the Alianza in 2009, was elected under President Sebastián Piñera for 2010–2014.

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    Personal interview with C. Ominami. My translation. See Appendix III.

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Garrido-Vergara, L. (2020). Political Performance of the Party Elites After Pinochet: 1990–2010. In: Species of Capital in the Political Elite. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41172-5_6

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