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 […]
The economic growth in Chile 1810-2016
The economist Angus Maddison published the year 2007, a book Contours of the World Economy, culminating a task absolutely senseless to Attempt to measure the GDP per capita of various countries from the year 1 of our era. A mammoth task (in terms of data collection and analysis to make them comparable) that would produce […]
A periodization of the evolution of the concentration of land in Chile 1540s-2010s
Following a reflection of a couple of years ago, in the context of my old job at the UNDP, I made a first version of a historical examination of the construction of the territory in Chile, under the point of view of the evolution of the concentration -which gives, besides, a perspective that may be […]
Annotations on The Rules of Durkheim (I). The Definition of Social Fact
We begin here a short series of entries about one of the classic works of sociology: The Rules of Durkheim. In recent times the fortunes of Durkheim, and of the vision methodology that the Rules they embody, has experienced strong poundings. To the criticisms of traditional conservatism, and to a vision that would deny the […]