Tracing Legislative Tenure Across Centuries: The Institutional Development of Chile’s Congress (1811–2020)

• In Event: Participation, Productivity, and Effectiveness

Brief Overview

Analyzing the tenures of 4,000 legislators (1811–2020), we trace the institutionalization of Chile’s Congress using survival models, revealing non-linear punctuated institutional development and convergence between chambers across democratic eras.

Authors

• Rodolfo de Camargo Lima, University of Sao Paulo

• Juan Carlos Arellano, Temuco Catholic University

• Sergio Toro

• Rodrigo Cuevas, Universidad Catolica de Temuco