Decentralization Progress in Chile: Toward a More Regional Democratic Governance
摘要
The objective of this study is to examine the progress of decentralization in recent years and its relationship to the influence of elites in Chile. The research combines two methods: archival research and semi-structured interviews. Indeed, this paper offers a new theoretical contribution that highlights the elite features of decentralization and is grounded in the theory of multilevel governance by Hooghe and Marks, as well as its critiques. This paper concludes that decentralization and regional democratic governance have evolved depending on the ruling political elite and have been favored in the current political context in Chile.