The title question can only deserve a quick response and obvious: Because you need some information, and that kind of information only you can deliver the surveys. Which is valid, but still leaves open the question of the uses. In other words, how much confidence can we have in their results? And given this, what […]
the Management of the ‘Model’
The idea that the governments of the Concertación (1990-2010) were administered to the model of the dictatorship generated, among those who defended and defend these governments, a great burning; a form of denigration of the achievements of these governments. However, it appears a more succinct form of referring to what did these governments -compared with […]
The Rationality of Rational Action
That is the title, perhaps you should think how to improve the titles I write?, a paper that I presented yesterday at the Colloquium on Economic Sociology. To describe it, nothing better than their summary: The theory of rational action has the paradoxical condition of being at the same time dominant and strongly criticized. On […]
The contradictions and right-wing on the 12 of October of 1492
In the previous post we outline some myths typically progressive in around the 12 October. It is then to write another entry that is your pair about the problems that appear in the visions of the ‘right wing’. In this case, I don’t know how dominant these problems, but they are all of them statements […]
The center+left was not bad in the election, but the New Majority was clearly defeated
Four years ago the right had very good spirits because, against all expectations (do you remember that on that occasion, the PSC erred to the left? The only constant is that over-represents the first place it seems), had been accomplished. Both have overlooked (a) that there was no chance for the 2nd round and that […]
The Election Polls were wrong (but not all, and not all react the same)
We had said on several previous occasions (for don’t say that is general after the battle) that there were problems with the surveys: It was not clear that you were properly analyzed the voter likely, the rejection rates (here link), that the primary had shown a number of surprises (here link). More in general, we […]
A purpose of the Presidential Election of 2017
Nothing very neat, but: (1) FA+NM clearly does not constitute an electoral majority. The ‘unity’ of the left wing was given (in which can it be, that there is not a transfer of 100%) and was not enough. (2) Chilezuela worked. And the reason that work involves a defeat for the more left-wing. I remember […]
The Particularity of the Election Polls
On Wednesday, the 13th of this month, the Association of Sociologists had to make a Panel about Political Polls. In the discussion, regarding the difference between opinion polls and election polls, I mentioned as a comment to an old idea of Jesus Ibáñez: the poll and the election are homologous activities: In both cases it […]
Approaches to the opposed Action and Structure in Social Theory
the Human Development Reports and on the relationship between subjectivity and politics
Having closed (how close things are complete?) the chapter of my stay in UNDP, and in particular in the elaboration of the Human Development Reports, it might be more a reflection of the whole. The first is how badly they read the Reports. I refer in particular to the 2015, about politicisation -that was where […]