Represión policial y grupos de protesta en Chile: Un estudio longitudinal

Repression in the form of police action is an instrument used by governments to deal with a mobilized society. The phenomenon has been widely studied in Anglo-Saxon contexts, but less so in Chile and the rest of Latin America. This article explores whether some mobilized groups are more repressed than others, and whether center-right governments make greater or lesser use of repression than center-left governments do. We used a database of 4,856 street demonstrations that occurred in Chile between 2010 and 2019 in order to model police repression of protesters. We used mobilized group type and the ideology of the national government of the time as predictors, in addition to some control variables. Results reveal that center-right governments repress protesters more intensely than center-left governments do, with stronger action taken towards students and indigenous people. The results are discussed in terms of the strength of the links between social movements and institutional policy, complementing the theoretical approach that focuses on weaknesses—one of the most important in the literature on protest repression.La represión es el resultado de acciones policiales y una herramienta de poder del gobierno para relacionarse con la sociedad movilizada. Ésta ha sido bastante estudiada en contextos anglosajones, pero menos en América Latina y Chile. Por ello, este artículo buscó responder si algunos grupos movilizados son más reprimidos que otros y si los gobiernos de centro-derecha reprimen más o menos que los gobiernos de centro-izquierda. Para esto, se usó una base de datos de 4,856 marchas callejeras ocurridas en Chile entre 2010 y 2019 y se modeló la represión policial hacia los manifestantes usando como predictores los grupos movilizados y la ideología del gobierno nacional, además de algunas variables control. Los resultados revelan que los gobiernos de centro-derecha reprimen con mayor intensidad a los manifestantes que los gobiernos de centro-izquierda, donde la represión es particularmente más fuerte hacia a estudiantes e indígenas. Los resultados se discuten en función de la fortaleza de los vínculos entre movimientos sociales y la política institucional complementando el enfoque teórico de las debilidades, uno de los más importantes en la literatura sobre represión de la protesta

What Role Do Political Parties Play in Social Protests? Recent Trends in Argentina and Chile

There is a growing consensus about the complementary nature of institutional and non-institutional politics as means to push forward policy agendas. However, the bulk of research tends to concentrate on one aspect of this relationship, namely, how social movements influence the political arena, for example by impacting different stages of the policy-making process and creating new political parties. There is comparatively less understanding of the reverse dynamics: the degree to which political parties also influence the protest arena by adopting and utilizing strategies and tactics commonly associated with social movements and by connecting to demonstrators. Focusing on Argentina and Chile, two countries that have experienced massive protest waves in recent years, this article examines the presence of political parties in the organization, staging, and channeling of demonstrations. Given that the reception of political parties in demonstrations is closely tied to whether they are welcome in the protest arena or not, we also analyze how Argentine and Chilean protesters perceive political parties and the level of identification they feel with them. Our primary data source comes from 1935 surveys conducted as part of the Caught in the Act of Protest: Contextualizing Contestation (CCC) network between 2015 and 2017. We found that political parties in Argentina exhibit stronger ties to social movements compared to those in Chile. We seek to link this outcome to divergent and historically rooted patterns of protest dynamics in both countries and discuss the implications of our findings in the conclusion

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