Competencia política y fraude electoral en Chile, 1912-1925

This article seeks to understand the complexities of electoral competition for political power in Chile in the early institutionalization. Fraud, especially bribery, and the ministerial rotations during the so-called Parliamentary Republic (1891-1925) have been recurrent arguments of the historiogra...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:dab5601f136343b4bd81c837068e25592021-12-02T10:32:14ZCompetencia política y fraude electoral en Chile, 1912-19251626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.68264https://doaj.org/article/dab5601f136343b4bd81c837068e25592015-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/68264https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This article seeks to understand the complexities of electoral competition for political power in Chile in the early institutionalization. Fraud, especially bribery, and the ministerial rotations during the so-called Parliamentary Republic (1891-1925) have been recurrent arguments of the historiography to prove the political crisis of the period. This article changes the focus on parliamentarism and this type of fraud, and attempts to show that, among the various campaign strategies, the manipulation of electoral registrations was the most competitive practice of negotiation between localities and party authorities in Santiago. The preelectoral fraud conducted by local elites organized around municipalities led to a political crisis in 1914, the only way out of which was to depoliticize the electoral power. This first way of doing this was to give responsibility of the preparation of the electoral records to an institution that was independent from both the parties and the other powers of the state. This explains why the Governing Junta of 1924 created the Electoral Registration.Macarena Ponce de León AtriaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleChileelectionsfraudelectoral rollmunicipalitiesAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2015)
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FR
PT
topic Chile
elections
fraud
electoral roll
municipalities
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
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spellingShingle Chile
elections
fraud
electoral roll
municipalities
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Macarena Ponce de León Atria
Competencia política y fraude electoral en Chile, 1912-1925
description This article seeks to understand the complexities of electoral competition for political power in Chile in the early institutionalization. Fraud, especially bribery, and the ministerial rotations during the so-called Parliamentary Republic (1891-1925) have been recurrent arguments of the historiography to prove the political crisis of the period. This article changes the focus on parliamentarism and this type of fraud, and attempts to show that, among the various campaign strategies, the manipulation of electoral registrations was the most competitive practice of negotiation between localities and party authorities in Santiago. The preelectoral fraud conducted by local elites organized around municipalities led to a political crisis in 1914, the only way out of which was to depoliticize the electoral power. This first way of doing this was to give responsibility of the preparation of the electoral records to an institution that was independent from both the parties and the other powers of the state. This explains why the Governing Junta of 1924 created the Electoral Registration.
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author Macarena Ponce de León Atria
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title Competencia política y fraude electoral en Chile, 1912-1925
title_short Competencia política y fraude electoral en Chile, 1912-1925
title_full Competencia política y fraude electoral en Chile, 1912-1925
title_fullStr Competencia política y fraude electoral en Chile, 1912-1925
title_full_unstemmed Competencia política y fraude electoral en Chile, 1912-1925
title_sort competencia política y fraude electoral en chile, 1912-1925
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2015
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