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We used data from the Financial Market Commission, which supervised more than 70% of financial assets in Chile, to identify board members and CEOs of a number of companies. We have elaborated a list of board members and CEOs for 463 and 451 companies, respectively.

We are analysing online incivility in the context of extra-governmental experts’ appointments to face unexpected, challenging events in Latin American democracies, such as natural disasters and the coronavirus crisis. We focus on the activity on Twitter around specific hashtags and data already downloaded using the Twitter API.

Special Issue for RGP

Epidemic incidence, serial intervals, and future incidence simulations by countries.

This research was possible thanks to financial support from the Department of Public Administration and Policy of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile under the 2018 Academic Performance Agreement.

Figures and Projections COVID-19.

Chilean Political Science Impact Ranking Datasets.

This research project analyses the e-government and the administrative capacity in 345 Chilean municipalities in 2019. The main objectives of this research are to evaluate the major determinants of e-government, in particular administrative capacity, and to identify patterns of spatial distribution. I generate an E-Government Index (EGi) which allows me to evaluate the provision of local digital services to citizens. Subsequently, I work on three levels of analysis: (i) I describe and georeference the index; (ii) I calculate indicators of spatial autocorrelation; and (iii) I fit spatial econometric models in order to evaluate the impact of the administrative capacity and other determinants on municipal digital development. The full pre-analysis plan has been written in LaTeX and uploaded and registered on Open Science Framework (OSF) and Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) repositories in order to avoid the intentionally select models that yield positive findings. This allows me to improve research transparency and reliability. This plan will remain private until its embargo end date, January 31, 2020. Moreover, this research has been possible thanks to the financial support of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile within the framework of the 2018 Academic Performance Agreement. I am grateful to Berenice Orvenes for her help with data collection and validation.

This is a bibliometric analysis of the Corporación de Estudios para Latinoamérica (CIEPLAN in Spanish) scientific production. This was the most important think tank during the dictatorship and democratisation in Chile. The analysis is carried out based on bibliographic entries (n = 145), references (n = 4.055), and biographical information of the authors, from 1979 to 1989. Three dimensions are analysed: scientific production and topics; collaboration and co-authorship; and citation. We use descriptive statistics, topic modeling and Social Network Analysis (SNA). The results reveal a constant trend in the scientific production and classic topics of economy associated to inequality and political issues. Moreover, the collaboration and citation analyses disclose that there is a community composed of recognised academics and members of the Chilean political elite who were central in the intellectual production and the citation network.

Presentation SocArXiv Preprint, Observatório de Elites UFPR, September, 2020.

This study analyses the level of electronic government and its determinants in the municipalities of the five most densely-populated regions in Chile. It works with a database of 188 municipalities where 71% of the national population is concentrated, according to 2016 estimates. In this research project, we calculate, describe and geo-reference a 2016 e-value index to evaluate the supply of digital services in each one of the municipalities. The predictors of the index are analysed using ordinary least squares (OLS). The factors analysed are related with the dimensions distinguished by theory as necessary for the implementation of strategies of electronic government. The highlight findings reveal recognisable spatial distribution patterns in the Metropolitan Region and enables us to identify the importance of the infrastructure, the political capital of the mayor and the financial independence of the municipality as significant determinants for successful development of electronic government initiatives at a municipal level.

This project analyses three dimensions of elite-mass congruence in Chile and Uruguay: (i) ideological; (ii) public issues, support, and satisfaction with democracy; and (iii) economic preferences on the role of the State. Data from probabilistic national surveys and surveys on elites financed by IDRC-Canada and carried out from 2013 to 2014 in each country are used. Congruence indexes are calculated to identify gaps between citizens and represents. The main indexes used are Relative Citizen Congruence and Earth Mover’s Distance, a recent innovation borrowed from computer science. The findings show a greater ideological congruence in Chile, a greater congruence on support to democracy in Uruguay, and important gaps on education issues in Chile. Furthermore, in both countries there is greater congruence regarding relevant public issues between higher socioeconomic level population and the political elite.

Chilean Political Science Impact Ranking Figures.

Practical Applications and Biases

We analyse the political careers of the women who occupied the most relevant positions in the Chilean political field from 1990 to 2010. In order to do this, we use mixed methods and data from a survey of 386 individuals from the political elite during this period, 16.58% of whom (n = 64) were women. First, we make a comparison between men and women using Generalised Linear Models (GLM) with Bernoulli distribution so as to statistically evaluate the gender bias in political careers. Subsequently, we carry out a comparison among women using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and a predictive validation with Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). From the typological theorising of QCA we infer an analysis of women's political careers using tree diagrams.

This data collection has been possible thanks to financial support from the Department of Public Administration and Policy of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile under the 2018 Academic Performance Agreement.

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the Corporación de Estudios para Latinoamérica (CIEPLAN in Spanish) scientific production. This was the most important think tank during the dictatorship and democratisation in Chile. The analysis is carried out based on bibliographic entries (n = 145), references (n = 4,055), and biographical information of the authors from 1979 to 1989. Three dimensions are analysed: scientific production and topics, collaboration and co-authorship, and references or information consumption. We use descriptive statistics, unsupervised topic modelling, and Social Network Analysis (SNA). The results reveal a constant trend in the scientific production and classic topics of the economy associated with inequality and political issues. Moreover, the collaboration and citation analyses show the existence of a community composed of recognised academics and members of the Chilean political elite who were central in the intellectual production and the references’ network. These findings allow us to name CIEPLAN as one of the central epistemic communities during Chile’s democratic recovery and transition, specifically during the first democratic governments, where a number of members were recruited to assume important positions in the executive. To this day, these actors continue influencing the policy-making process in Chile. Este artículo presenta un análisis bibliométrico de la producción científica de la Corporación de Estudios para Latinoamérica (CIEPLAN), el centro de estudios más importante durante la dictadura y transición democrática en Chile. El análisis se realiza sobre un conjunto de registros bibliográficos (n = 145), referencias (n = 4.055) e información biográfica de los autores, durante 1979-1989. Se analizan tres dimensiones: producción científica y áreas temáticas; colaboración y coautoría; y referencias o consumo de información. Se utiliza estadística descriptiva, modelamiento temático no supervisado y Análisis de Redes Sociales (SNA, por sus siglas en inglés). Los resultados muestran una tendencia constante en la producción científica y temas centrados en tópicos clásicos de la economía asociados con temas de desigualdad y política. Además, los análisis de colaboración y referencias muestran la existencia de una comunidad compuesta por reconocidos académicos y miembros de la élite política chilena centrales en la producción intelectual y en la red de referencias. Estos hallazgos permiten denominar a CIEPLAN como una de las principales comunidades epistémicas durante la recuperación y transición democrática chilena, en específico, durante los primeros gobiernos democráticos dónde varios miembros fueron reclutados para asumir importantes cargos en el ejecutivo. Hasta hoy, estos actores siguen influenciando el proceso de formulación de políticas públicas en Chile.

Preprint eCiencias de la Información.

Este documento de trabajo analiza la consistencia de la medición de sofisticación política como predictor de participación y compromiso político con la ola del Barómetro de las Américas 2016/17 en 19 países de América Latina (N = 31.285). Se evalúan la participación electoral, en protestas, eficacia política, identificación partidaria, interés en la política y consumo de medios. Se utilizan modelos logísticos con el estimador de varianza Taylor linealizado y regresiones logísticas multinivel de efectos mixtos. Los resultados muestran que la sofisticación política es significativa de forma robusta para todas las variables dependientes evaluadas con un efecto positivo, con excepción de la eficacia política que presenta un efecto inverso.

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-bpi-10.1177_13691481221124850 for Ministerial stability during presidential approval crises: The moderating effect of ministers’ attributes on dismissals in Brazil and Chile by Bastián González-Bustamante in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-bpi-10.1177_13691481221124850 for Ministerial stability during presidential approval crises: The moderating effect of ministers’ attributes on dismissals in Brazil and Chile by Bastián González-Bustamante in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-hij-10.1177_19401612221089482 for Power Hierarchies and Visibility in the News: Exploring Determinants of Politicians’ Presence and Prominence in the Chilean Press (1991–2019) by Ximena Orchard and Bastián González-Bustamante in The International Journal of Press/Politics

Este artículo discute brevemente algunas dificultades teóricas y caracteriza el panorama reciente, así como las principales agendas de investigación en el marco del estudio de las élites gubernamentales en América Latina. Posteriormente, se abordan de forma general algunos desafíos metodológicos y se presentan unas breves reflexiones finales.

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