Marching and Campaigning: Social Links in the Chilean Frente Amplio (2017 - 2023)

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Published: May 23, 2024
Issue: Vol. 36 No. 1 (2024): Estallidos, movimientos sociales y partidos en América Latina
Section Thematic Dossier


Keywords: Frente Amplio social linkages party organizations political parties new parties political sociology

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  Juan Pablo Orrego
Universidad de Edimburgo

Abstract

This article aims to explain why the Chilean Frente Amplio has not managed to consolidate stable links with the main social movements in the country despite having emerged in a context of social mobilization.
Secondly, it aims to contextualize the case of the Frente Amplio in the Latin American scenario through paradigmatic cases of parties that have managed to develop and maintain links with social
organizations. The article addresses four possible explanations: the autonomous and non-partisan nature of social mobilization, the rapid and costly access of the coalition to the institutional apparatus,
the consolidation of an organizational structure less open to the influence of social organizations and, transversally, the disposition adopted by the coalition at key moments of its trajectory towards
organized civil society. The article concludes by highlighting the importance of both contextual factors and explanations associated with party agency.

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Orrego, J. P. (2024). Marching and Campaigning: Social Links in the Chilean Frente Amplio (2017 - 2023). Desafíos, 36(1). https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.13685
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