LOS GABINETES MINISTERIALES EN LA DEMOCRACIA CHILENA POS 1990: UN CASO DE ESTABILIDAD, CONTINUIDAD HISTÓRICA Y NEGOCIACIÓN INTER–PARTIDARIA

Abstract

This paper analyzes ministerial duration and inter–party negotiations during Concertación’s democratic governments in the case of Chile. The objective is to establish explanatory variables that explain the probability that a minister stays the whole administration in his/her post. This paper is structured in two parts: the first one deals with the theoretical framework in which this analysis is built on; and the second tests empirically the hy- pothesis that there are three specific variables that account for ministers’ appointments and duration. These variables are: the survival of political elite that comes before 1973 military coup d’etat and been close to power circles within the coalition.