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Youth Political Disaffection and Chile's Post- Authoritarian Political System

Venegas Muggli, JI; (2013) Youth Political Disaffection and Chile's Post- Authoritarian Political System. Doctoral thesis (PhD), UCL (University College London). Green open access

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Abstract

This research aims to explain current high levels of political disaffection among Chilean youth, to understand why youths in Chile are particularly more disaffected than other groups, and to comprehend the apparent new way of doing politics that would be emerging among this group. Since the return to democracy in 1990 Chile has experienced good levels of economic development and political stability. However, with the pass of years, Chilean citizens, and particularly young people, have increased their levels of political disaffection. Moreover, lately these feelings have begun to be expressed through strong social movements. This thesis argues that this phenomenon can be principally explained by a large disconnection between the political class and common citizens in Chile, which would be founded on both several institutional and socio-economic legacies of the dictatorship and the way the political transition was made. The relationship between youths and the political system in Chile is analyzed through both quantitative and qualitative analyses. This is done first through the direct analysis of the association between indicators of political disaffection and perceptions about the way of functioning of the Chilean Political system. Moreover, several case studies that express these feelings of disaffection are also analyzed in order to deepen the argument. First, an analysis of the lack of a youth public policy is done in order to describe a specific case that shows that the political system is particularly more disconnected regarding young people. Additionally, the success among youths of the independent presidential candidature of Marco Enriquez-Ominami in 2009 and the educational movements of 2006 and 2011-2012 are also analyzed. This is done also to more deeply comprehend the engenderment of feelings of disaffection but also in order to examine an apparent new way of doing politics that may be emerging among young people.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification: PhD
Title: Youth Political Disaffection and Chile's Post- Authoritarian Political System
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Keywords: Political Disaffection, Chile, Democracy, Youth
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1414830
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