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Latin America Erupts: Re-founding Chile
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 32, Number 3, July 2021
- pp. 33-47
- 10.1353/jod.2021.0032
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Abstract:
Chile faces its most crucial re-foundational moment since the recovery of democracy in 1990. A constitutional convention composed of a majority of nonpartisan members and dominated by no single group will write a new constitution to replace the one enacted in 1980 by Augusto Pinochet. Will this process bring social norms in tune with formal institutions, or will the result be a polarized politics and deeper crisis? This political moment presents great challenges, but it is also an opportunity to resolve a longstanding political conflict and build a more democratic and stable future for the country.