The Law and Politics of Constitution Making : Lessons from Chile (Hardcover)

Introduction: Analyzing Chile’s Constitution-Making Processes (Eduardo Aleman and Sebastian Soto Velasco) Part I: Political Context and Institutional Design 1. Toward an Understanding of the Economic Forces Behind Chile’s Estallido Social (Arturo Fontaine and Sergio Urzua) 2. Chile´s Constitutional Processes in Comparative Perspective (Gabriel L. Negretto and Eugenia Artabe) 3. Citizen Participation in Constitutional Processes: Chile’s Experience (2015-2023) (Francisco Soto Barrientos) 4. Constitution-Making and Its Discontents: When Political Context Undermines Institutional Designs (Eduardo Aleman and Gabriel L. Negretto) Part II: Perspectives from Constitution Makers 5. The Constitutional Convention: The View of a Progressive Independent Delegate (Tammy Pustilnick Arditi) 6. The Constitutional Convention: The Experience of a Right-Liberal Delegate (Hernan Larrain Matte) 7. Constitutional Council: Insights from a New Left Reformer (Maria Pardo-Vergara) 8. Constitutional Council: Reflections from a New Right Architect (Luis Silva) Part III: Substantive Debates and Draft Content 9. Principles: Disagreements and Consensus and Their Impact on Constitutionalism (Catalina Salem) 10. Expanding the Catalog of Rights in Chile’s Constitutional Processes: When New Rights Open New Risks (Sebastian Soto Velasco) 11. The Long Road to Recognition: Indigenous Peoples and Constituent Processes in Chile (Manuel Nunez and Alejandra Precht) 12. Reforming the Judiciary and Constitutional Tribunal (Lydia Brashear Tiede) 13. Recrafting the Political System: The Endurance of Chile’s Presidentialism (Andres Dockendorff, Christopher A. Martinez, and Rocio Saez-Vergara) Part IV: Empirical Perspectives on Behavior?and?Attitudes 14. Out with the Old, Out with the New: Vote Choice During the Constitution-Making Period in Chile (Eduardo Aleman, Jose M. Cabezas and Ernesto Calvo) 15. Roll Call Votes in the Constitutional Writing Processes in Chile, 2021-2023 (Patricio Navia and Francisco Roldan) 16. Beyond Parties: Assessing Ideological Representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention (Jorge Fabrega) 17. Switching Off: Political Attention and News Consumption in 2022 Referendum (Carolina F.T. Batista and Ernesto Calvo) 18. Conclusions (Eduardo Aleman and Sebastian Soto Velasco)