Browsing by Author "Le Foulon, Carmen"

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    Candidate sex, corruption and vote choice
    (2021) Le Foulon, Carmen; Reyes-Housholder, Catherine
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    La política siempre ha sido cosa de mujeres: Elecciones y protagonistas en Chile y la región
    (FLACSO Chile, 2018) Roque, Beatriz; Le Foulon, Carmen; Guerrero, Carolina; Reyes-Housholder, Catherine; Arana, Ignacio; Arce, Javiera; González, Jessica; Suárez-Cao, Julieta; Miranda, Lucía; Batlle, Margarita; Miranda Leibe, Lucía; Suárez-Cao, Julieta
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    More Options, but Less Willing to Cast a Valid Vote: Evidence From Electoral Reform in Chile
    (2024) Cox, Loreto; Le Foulon, Carmen
    How do large-magnitude proportional systems affect invalid voting? We evaluate a Chilean electoral system reform that introduced proportionality. Voting is voluntary, and legislative and presidential elections are held concurrently. We compare the invalid votes between different types of elections before and after the reform using various difference-in-differences strategies. We find that invalid voting increased in legislative compared to presidential elections (pre-trends were parallel). The increase in invalid voting is greater in post-reform districts with higher magnitude and is not due to pre-reform district characteristics. The results of heterogeneity analyses and a survey experiment suggest the mechanism behind these findings is the cognitive burden associated with a longer ballot. This research highlights an understudied aspect of electoral systems: higher district magnitudes may be demobilizing in terms of valid voting for citizens who are more vulnerable to cognitive burden, even among those motivated enough to vote in the first-order election.
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    The 2019 Chilean Social Upheaval: A Descriptive Approach
    (2023) Cox, Loreto; González, Ricardo; Le Foulon, Carmen
    In 2019, student protests over an increase in subway fare in Chile escalated into violenceand a leaderless nationwide social upheaval. This research note takes a descriptiveapproach that goes beyond the protester/non-protesters dichotomy, because we believewe need a richer understanding of the“what, who, and how”of citizens around this out-break. Based on a surveyfielded amidst the upheaval, we distinguish protesters by inten-sity, and non-protesters by their position towards the upheaval. As expected, protesterstend to be young and educated. Strong protesters are more left-wing, interested in pol-itics, and more participative, including electorally. They endorse democracy but are crit-ical of its functioning, and more likely to justify illegal/violent actions as a means for socialchange. Inequality appears as a cross-cutting concern, even among opponents, butstrong protesters are more distrustful of its sources and of the rich themselves. We con-clude by discussing the implications of thesefindings
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    Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises
    (2023) Reyes-Housholder, Catherine; Suárez-Cao, Julieta; Le Foulon, Carmen
    Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30 years,” used by protesters in Chile in 2019–20. Crises meeting this definition have occurred in countries as diverse as Iceland in 2009, Hong Kong in 2019, Chile, and Colombia in 2019–21. In contrast with economic crises (Strolovitch 2013), protesters—not necessarily elites—perform the discursive work of (re)interpreting material and political conditions. Protesters’ framing of their grievances may overwhelm elite attempts to reinterpret these crises for their benefit. We argue that protest-driven crises can alter gendered opportunity structures, but outcomes are likely multifaceted and potentially contradictory.