Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Chile

Cristobal Aninat, John Londregan, Patricio Navia and Joaquín Vial

No 3371, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This analysis characterizes the salient features of the policymaking process (PMP) in Chile. It emphasizes the influence of political institutions on the PMP and examines the linkage between policymaking and policy outcomes in Chile. The salient features of the Chilean PMP are the electoral system and the associated party system, characterized by two long-lived coalitions, a powerful Executive, with de facto control over the agenda, a relatively independent judiciary, a bureaucracy that is relatively free from corruption even by the standards of the OECD, and a series of veto points in the policymaking process that permit adversely affected actors to block policy change. Looking at policy areas in cross section, the authors find that policy areas in which policymakers' interests are more nearly aligned, and in which there is more rapid exogenous change, are associated with more successful efforts at reform, while in areas in which the interests of the Executive and the various veto players diverge, policy tends to stagnate.

Keywords: policymaking; political institutions; Chile; public administration; Latin American Research Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-02
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