Juan Pablo Luna

Juan Pablo Luna is professor of political science at the Instituto de Ciencia Política of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is the author of Segmented Representation: Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies (2014).

July 2010, Volume 21, Issue 3

Chile: Are the Parties Over?

For the first time since the fall of Pinochet, the Chilean right has come to power via free elections. The long-ruling center-left coalition leaves behind many achievements, but also disturbing signs of a weakened party system.