O legislativo e a política externa do Chile (2006-2014)

Abstract

The guiding question of this research is: how Chilean legislators voting foreign policy themes? This research, by means of roll call votes by 2006-2014 of the Cámara de Diputados de Chile, aim at found out the association between legislators vote in foreign policy themes and ordinary factors pointed by the literature as determinants in the roll call in public policies, including foreign policy: belong or not to government coalition; and the party ideology. The background of this research is the government coalition change, occurred in 2010, after 20 years of the Concertación in the power. The study use a method that involve quantitative and qualitative analysis, with descriptive roll call dates, ideal points analysis of the legislators and a logistic regression, jointly with a deep analysis of similar voting in both legislature and a literature revision of the Chilean foreign policy. Both of the variables presented relation with the legislative behavior – showed by the continuation of the legislator’s polarization in yours coalition and by the likely to support the president be in the direction of government parties. Confirmed the hypothesis of ideological behavior, this maintains the proposition that deny bipartisanship in foreign policy in Chile. These results, then, indicate that this ideological positions means foreign policy changes, question that was clarified with the qualitative analysis, which showed pragmatic continuum lines, as well as foreign policy redirections under Piñera’s government.