Browsing by Author "Le Foulon, Carmen"

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    Candidate sex, corruption and vote choice
    (2021) Le Foulon, Carmen; Reyes-Housholder, Catherine
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    The 2019 Chilean Social Upheaval: A Descriptive Approach
    (2023) Cox, Loreto; González, Ricardo; Le Foulon, Carmen
    In 2019, student protests over an increase in subway fare in Chile escalated into violenceand a leaderless nationwide social upheaval. This research note takes a descriptiveapproach that goes beyond the protester/non-protesters dichotomy, because we believewe need a richer understanding of the“what, who, and how”of citizens around this out-break. Based on a surveyfielded amidst the upheaval, we distinguish protesters by inten-sity, and non-protesters by their position towards the upheaval. As expected, protesterstend to be young and educated. Strong protesters are more left-wing, interested in pol-itics, and more participative, including electorally. They endorse democracy but are crit-ical of its functioning, and more likely to justify illegal/violent actions as a means for socialchange. Inequality appears as a cross-cutting concern, even among opponents, butstrong protesters are more distrustful of its sources and of the rich themselves. We con-clude by discussing the implications of thesefindings
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    Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises
    (2023) Reyes-Housholder, Catherine; Suárez-Cao, Julieta; Le Foulon, Carmen
    Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30 years,” used by protesters in Chile in 2019–20. Crises meeting this definition have occurred in countries as diverse as Iceland in 2009, Hong Kong in 2019, Chile, and Colombia in 2019–21. In contrast with economic crises (Strolovitch 2013), protesters—not necessarily elites—perform the discursive work of (re)interpreting material and political conditions. Protesters’ framing of their grievances may overwhelm elite attempts to reinterpret these crises for their benefit. We argue that protest-driven crises can alter gendered opportunity structures, but outcomes are likely multifaceted and potentially contradictory.