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This chapter looks at current Chilean politicization and social mobilization. Questioning the traditional divide between authorities and social movements (see e.g., Tarrow 2011), a set of publications devoted to this issue in Latin America has explained grassroots collective action as a coconstruction between movements and political institutions. Political phenomena in Latin America hardly function in isolation, these scholars argue (Alvarez et al. 2017; Helmke and Levitsky 2006). Instead, they suggest that political processes interconnect to produce outcomes that may or may not be democratic. Tarlau (2013) has studied, for example, how the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil coproduces activism with political parties in rural schools through clientelism. By showing how Chilean social movements have increasingly detached from political institutions, this chapter will outline the Chilean case as a regional...
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Escoffier, S. (2018). Politicization and Social Mobilization in Twenty-First-Century Chile. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3330-1
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