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Student Protest and the Nueva Mayoría Reforms in Chile
Author(s) -
PalaciosValladares Indira,
Ondetti Gabriel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12886
Subject(s) - elite , neoliberalism (international relations) , authoritarianism , political science , scholarship , politics , government (linguistics) , political economy , assertiveness , public administration , contentious politics , democracy , sociology , social movement , law , psychology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy
Chile's Nueva Mayoría government (2014–2018) responded more forcefully to student demands for a more assertive public role in education than any of its post‐authoritarian predecessors. Existing scholarship suggests that this change reflected the success of the 2011 student protests in tapping into latent public discontent with neoliberalism and the politics of consensus. This article argues that it is also crucial to understand how the wave of protest interacted with the dynamics of party politics at the elite level. Public support translated into substantive policy and institutional changes because it contributed to a coalition and platform shift that favoured more extensive reform.