Abstract

CRUZ, Facundo  and  VARETTO, Carlos. Chronicle of an Announced Change. The 2017 Chile’s Elections Facing the Change in the Electoral System. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2019, n.54, pp.233-258. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n54a12.

This article analyses the 2017 presidential elections in Chile based on a comparative perspective that takes into account the period beginning with the return to democracy in 1989. We maintain that the party system is in a new stage of its trajectory that started in 2013 and in which both party systems (presidential and legislative) began to converge once again in terms of their levels of electoral fragmentation and volatility. The context shows the possibility of the consolidation of this new format and a new competitive dynamic. In this way, it would be leading to a third stage. The first stage of the Chilean party system took place between 1989 and 2005 characterized by stability, low fragmentation and high institutionalization. A second stage took place between 2005 and 2013, in which we highlight a mismatch between the presidential competition (progressively more volatile and fragmented) and the legislative competition (still stable and less fragmented).

Keywords : Electoral System; Elections; Political Change; Party System; Chile.

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