Artículo
What Role Do Political Parties Play in Social Protests?: Recent Trends in Argentina and Chile
Fecha de publicación:
07/2023
Editorial:
Università di Bologna
Revista:
Sociologica
e-ISSN:
1971-8853
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
Clasificación temática:
Resumen
There is a growing consensus about the complementary nature of institutional and noninstitutional 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 policymaking 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 inthe 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.
Palabras clave:
Protests
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Political parties
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Surveys
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Argentina
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Chile
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Articulos de INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES POLITICAS
Articulos de INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES POLITICAS
Citación
Donoso, Sofía; Somma, Nicolás M.; Rossi, Federico Matias; What Role Do Political Parties Play in Social Protests?: Recent Trends in Argentina and Chile; Università di Bologna; Sociologica; 17; 1; 7-2023; 91-103
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