Political culture and attitudes of economic elites: explaining the Chilean business community’s rejection to constitutional change
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Título: | Political culture and attitudes of economic elites: explaining the Chilean business community’s rejection to constitutional change |
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Autor/es: | Osorio Rauld, Nelson Alejandro | Pelfini, Alejandro | Català Oltra, Lluís | Francés, Francisco |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | CRITERI - Socioeconomia Crítica i Territori | Grupo de Investigación de Sociología de las Emociones, los Cuerpos y las Sensibilidades (EMOCS) | Investigación Social sobre Equidad y Diversidad (EQUIDIVERSIDAD) | Observatorio Europeo de Tendencias Sociales (OBETS) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Sociología II |
Palabras clave: | Economic elite | Political crisis | Constitution | Political culture | Chile |
Fecha de publicación: | 18-mar-2024 |
Editor: | Cambridge University Press |
Cita bibliográfica: | Business and Politics. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2023.39 |
Resumen: | In contexts of institutional crisis, conflicts arise in which different pressure groups try to maximize their influence, seeking to adjust a political reality in line with their own interest. This article analyzes the changes in the attitudes of economic elites regarding the process of drafting of a new Constitution in Chile. Based on the literature on the political culture of entrepreneurs, the research hypothesis posed in this study suggests the existence of a widespread conservative attitude within this social group regarding a change in institutional rules. This mainly relates to the perception that a new Constitution in Chile could threaten its predominant place in the distribution of economic and political power. The results obtained after analyzing in-depth interviews with presidents or vice presidents of the main business organizations in the country show changing positions throughout the different stages of the constituent process. Even though some attitudinal changes towards an adaptation become visible, what ultimately prevails is an unmitigated rejection of the constituent process. These findings clearly suggest a return to the initial stances of most entrepreneurs, something that also happened in the elite examined as well as in the rest of Chilean society. Thus, one can speak about a sort of “boomerang effect”: the attitudes of rejection have once again dominated the space of discursive expression where the pressure exerted by public opinion seemed to pave the way for a certain reformism or a transforming reaction. This evidence confirms a disconnection found in the literature which reveals the dynamic nature of short-term attitudes linked to each specific situation, albeit with more stable values and positions specific to the political culture which exist on a more persistent basis. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/141560 |
ISSN: | 1469-3569 |
DOI: | 10.1017/bap.2023.39 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Vinod K. Aggarwal. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the same Creative Commons licence is used to distribute the re-used or adapted article and the original article is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained prior to any commercial use. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2023.39 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - OBETS - Artículos de Revistas INV - EMOCS - Artículos de Revistas INV - CRITERI - Artículos de Revistas INV - EQUIDIVERSIDAD - Artículos de Revistas |
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