Abstract: Lateinamerika hat sich in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten stark verändert. Auf die Demokratisierungsprozesse seit Ende der 1970er Jahre folgte in den 1980er Jahren die Hinwendung zu neoliberalen Entwicklungsstrategien. Die Reformen sorgten für wirtschaftliche Stabilität, ihre...

Can televised political advertising change voting behavior in elections held in authoritarian regimes? We study the case of Chile, where the opposition used television campaigns weeks before the election that ended the seventeen-year dictatorship known as the Pinochet regime. Using national...

We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaining and market power in the private...

This paper studies the relationship between intergenerational economic persistence and preferences for the provision of public goods. Specifically, we develop a simple theoretical model in which a public good is financed through proportional taxation, and that predicts a lower provision of...

We study the decline of turnout by generational replacement and the composition of the new electorate in the post authoritarian Chile (1989-2008). High voting cohorts have been displaced by low voting ones. For those Chileans who lived under the authoritarian rule in the 80s average turnout...

This paper applies the concept of optimal obfuscation to fast-growth, high-inequality emergent economies. The obfuscation level depends on the nature of policy, government propaganda or 'spin', and GDP growth. The conditions are identified for a negative impact of economic growth on electoral...

Between 1930 and 1970 in Chile, the hacienda system, the most durable institution in Chilean history, underwent decay. As is to be expected, this process resulted in several social and political conflicts in the countryside. One aspect remains unexplored: its impact on real wages and...

The apathy for electoral and political participation in Latin America shows an increasing trend that deserves the scholar community's attention. In this sense, this paper models the voter registration decision in a mandatory voting system that includes the margin of victory as a potential...