Political scientist. Professor and Director of the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. Author of "Citizenship and Contemp. Direct Democracy" (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
The 2025 presidential election confirms a profound political realignment in Chile: the historic dictatorship–democracy cleavage no longer structures voting behavior, having been displaced by a new axis of conflict that emerged from the cycle opened in 2019.
At first glance, Sunday's results appear to signal a Copernican shift in the country's values, indicating—according to all polls based on plausible second-round scenarios—a...
