Hegemony and Frustration: Education policy making in Chile under the Concertación, 1990-2010
LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
What is the nature of government policy making and its relations with social actors in post-1990 Chile? A case study of the education sector shows a shift in the Concertación government’s approach to participation from market (1980s) to weak representative (i.e., involvement of organized groups) (1990–2006 and since 2007) and deliberative (2006) forms. The reasons for this shift include the relative strength of (right-wing) political actors in representative institutions such as Congress and the weakness of (left-wing) social actors in organizational and electoral terms.
