Diego Barría TraversoUniversidad de Valparaíso (Chile) | CINV · Escuela de Administración Pública
Diego Barría Traverso
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The incorporation of women into the public arena has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars in public administration. Yet there has been little analysis of this phenomenon from a long-term perspective. This article is an evaluation of the integration of women into the public sector in Chile from the mid-nineteenth century to the Great Dep...
En los últimos treinta años, el campo de la administración pública en América Latina ha girado en torno a cómo introducir reformas en el sector público inspiradas por la Nueva Gestión Pública. En efecto, la mayoría de las administraciones públicas se han enfocado casi exclusivamente en introducir este tipo de reformas, ignorando una serie de altern...
This book analyzes both the Chilean state policies on commercial aviation and the corporate history of the state-owned ailrine Línea Aérea Nacional (LAN) between 1929 and 1989. The book covers a transition from the early adoption of policies that were nationalist, from both the national security and economic standpoints, through the complete deregu...
Doctors have played an important role in the development of health institutions in Latin
America. However, they are not the only profession that has had a voice in these matters.
There are also other factors influencing the development of ministries of health. This issue
has gone unnoticed in the literature. This article suggest that it is possible...
Una de las funciones principales de los sistemas universitarios es la formación de servidores públicos. A mediados de la década de 1950, en América Latina surgieron escuelas que buscaron formar funcionarios públicos profesionales. En el caso chileno, ello comenzó en 1954, en un momento en el que el Estado aplicaba políticas desarrollistas y de expa...
This study analyses why Cuba, Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia attempted to establish air transport agreements with Chile and both their objectives and those of their airlines. It also examines the response of the Allende government and other Chilean key actors. The paper shows that the interest in signing these agreements lay in the Socia...
El transporte aéreo desempeña un papel central en la articulación de la movilidad internacional. En América Latina, la aviación como sistema de transporte ha sido y sigue siendo fundamental para la cohesión territorial de los diferentes países y para garantizar las conexiones de la región a escala mundial. Este libro incluye varios trabajos relativ...
En 1948, el sector aerocomercial chileno fue reformado. La Junta de Aeronáutica Civil (JAC) fue creada, mientras la Línea Aérea Nacional, detentora del monopolio de los derechos de vuelo de cabotaje, permitió el ingreso de varios operadores privados a la industria. El monopolio fue eliminado en 1953, abriendo un escenario de competencia entre las a...
En 2014, un grupo de jóvenes diputados propuso reducir en un 50% la dieta parlamentaria. Con esta iniciativa se buscaba solucionar problemas de legitimidad derivados de los altos ingresos de los congresistas en un contexto de alta desigualdad. La literatura, generalmente, señala que la dieta parlamentaria es un requisito para la ampliación democrát...
Following Salvatore and the WHO, in this article we provide the first long-term estimates of malnutrition rates for Chile per birth cohort, measured through stunting rates of adult males born from the 1870s to the 1990s. We used a large sample of military records, representative of the whole Chilean population, totalling over 38 thousand individual...
En los últimos treinta años el debate en el campo de la administración pública en América Latina ha girado en torno a cómo introducir reformas en el sector público inspiradas por la Nueva Gestión Pública. En efecto, la mayoría de las administraciones públicas se han enfocado casi exclusivamente en introducir este tipo de reformas, ignorando una ser...
n los últimos treinta años el debate en el campo de la administración pública en América Latina ha girado en torno a cómo introducir reformas en el sector público inspiradas por la Nueva Gestión Pública. En efecto, la mayoría de las administraciones públicas se han enfocado casi exclusivamente en introducir este tipo de reformas, ignorando una seri...
We provide a new indicator of salary inequality for Chile: the ratio of the salary of the Finance Minister compared to that of the lowest paid worker in the Ministry of Finance (1845-2020). The ratio indicates the ideas that the political elite has about its own "worth", and that of those at the bottom, thus providing a new story about political vi...
La tensión entre eficiencia y democracia —y participación ciudadana— es uno de los grandes tópicos que tocan a la Administración pública, tanto como práctica social como disciplina académica. Las diferencias entre las perspectivas eficientistas y participativas generan diversas formas de comprender el funcionamiento de las instituciones públicas y...
This article makes a contribution to the study of inequality in the biological welfare of Chile's adult population during the nitrate era, c.1880s-1930s, and in particular focuses on the impact of socioeconomic variables on height, making use of a sample of over 20,000 male inmates of the capital's main jail. It shows that inmates with a university...
1 Introduction This chapter explores the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Latin America, mainly focusing on those specializing in a range of commodities based on natural resources. The discussion is divided into two parts: first, we review arguments presented in the literature, and second, we present four case studies. Our argument is cons...
Open government has become one of the concepts that most recently attracted professionals and academics dedicated to public administration. Likewise, it is possible to notice the appearance of a growing volume of academic works dedicated to analyzing the concept and experiences of open government in the region. This paper analyzes the academic prod...
This article analyses the early Chilean State experience in the management of its flag-carrying airline, Línea Aérea Nacional. Drawing on Línea Aérea Nacional documents as well as newspapers, laws, and parliamentary debates, the article reconstructs the development of the company between 1929 and 1945. The central argument of this article is that,...
This chapter surveys the state of business history in Chile, drawing attention to the relative lack of research on the topic compared with other Latin American countries until very recently. Explanations for this lie in the antagonism that many academics felt towards the business elite, due partly to the influence of dependency theories and the rol...
En este capítulo buscamos responder a estas interrogantes, explorando en el uso de redes sociales en campañas electorales y en conversaciones políticas en la esfera digital. Para esto, usamos como caso de estudio a Chile entre 2009 y 2015. Para facilitar la exposición del tema, dividimos el capítulo en tres apartados. En el primero, abordamos de fo...
Scatterplots año de publicación y cantidad de documentos referenciados en artículos sobre gobierno abierto en América Latina y España entre 2009 y 2015
Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors. The chapters in this book, the first in English on the history of Chilean business, focus on the importance of diversified family business groups in twentieth-century Chile, their...
The article analyzes the institutional and financial reform agenda proposed by President José Manuel Balmaceda between 1890 and 1891. Based on a review of press media and congressional records, the article shows that since 1890 the balmacedismo promoted a constitutional and financial reform aiming to extricate the Executive branch from the Congress...
Historians and contemporaries alike have criticized Chilean public administration during the Parliamentary period due to the emergence of clientelism in the selection of public workers. Notwithstanding, a great part of these impressions are not based on evidence. This article analyzes the development of administrative careers in public services bet...
This paper analyses how public employees at two Chilean government offices constructed their occupational identities. In contrast to the vast majority of previous work, which took the 1920s as its starting point, this study focuses on the period between 1880 and 1920. Additionally, the construction of identity is analysed in direct relation to perf...
El artículo busca aportar al debate sobre el origen social de los empleadospúblicos chilenos entre 1880 y 1920. Para ello, a partir de estadísticas oficiales,se plantea que si los empleados públicos comenzaron a ser sujetos visibles,ello fue porque el número de puestos administrativos creció en la época.Específicamente, se busca mostrar que el empl...
During the 1880s, a significant number of Chilean administrative services were reformed following the characteristics of the Weberian bureaucracy. From the analysis of two cases of administrative reform (the so-called Prussianization of the Chilean Army and the creation of institutions in the field of public health), this article seeks to understan...
1. Llorca-Jaña, Manuel y Barría, Diego. “Introducción: historia empresarial de Chile en el siglo XXI”.
2. Bucheli, Marcelo. ‘Política económica, capital extranjero y la creación de COPEC’.
3. Salvaj, Erica; Andrea Lluch y Constanza Gómez. ‘La red empresarial chilena en 1939: entre la crisis global y la adaptación a la etapa de la industrialización...
This article the efforts made by certain political actors to change Chilean municipal institutionality between 1854 and 1891. It shows that the initial design guaranteed central government control over the municipalities. This led political actors that are against an active role of the state, to seek to modify its design by giving municipalities gr...
This article analyzes the administrative theory developed by Valentín Letelier (1852–1919), a prominent lawyer, intellectual, and public figure of the second half of nineteenth-century Chile. The focus is on how a Latin American public administration scholar moved from positivism to evolutionism, and answers key questions about the nature of public...
Families in War and Peace. Chile from Colony to Nation¸ por Sarah Chambers. Duke University Press, 2015.
This chapter is focused on electronic participation and its relation with the growing of social networks through Internet. The e-government and its difference with other emerging ways of digital participation is addressed in detail. Based on a theoretical scheme and a case of study that tells experiences of technological innovation and the usage of...
Este artículo analiza otro tipo de discusión en torno a los empleados públicos: aquella que se centró en cuestiones de carácter social. Lo que se busca encontrar en el período 1880-1920 es un conjunto de representaciones que permitan asignar un lugar a los empleados públicos dentro de la estructura social. A partir de la revisión de novelas sobre e...
In the 1880s, Chile experienced important changes in different social spheres that questioned the operating efficiency of state institutions. In order to cope with these difficulties, a broad process of administrative reform was initiated, especially with respect to the adoption of bureaucracy as the way to design public administration. In this reg...
This thesis deals with the causes of the 1891 civil war in Chile. That confrontation was very violent, to the extent that the ruling Balmaceda administration was accused of not respecting private property, the privacy of the home nor the freedom of the press. Furthermore, he was accused of arresting and torturing opponents to his government. Accord...
As a candidate, Michelle Bachelet asserted that hers would be a citizens’ government. This gave the impression that she would create a favorable climate for social actors such as the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (Unitary Workers’ Federation–CUT) to participate in the policy-making process. Instead, while the government treated the federation as...
De 1884 a 1920, a acusação de patronagem política para os funcionários públicos constituiu tema central na discussão política, no Chile. O mundo acadêmico também se dedicou ao assunto, e tentou apresentar soluções para este mal. Este artigo se propõe a estudar as tentativas acadêmicas para dar uma resposta às perguntas sobre que tipo de funcionário...
De 1884 a 1920, a acusação de patronagem política para os funcionários públicos constituiu tema central na discussão política, no Chile. O mundo acadêmico também se dedicou ao assunto, e tentou apresentar soluções para este mal. Este artigo se propõe a estudar as tentativas acadêmicas para dar uma resposta às perguntas sobre que tipo de funcionário...
Various international assessments have drawn attention to the level of development e-government has reached in Chile during the early 2000s. Despite this, even official reports recognize that there is an egovernment deficit in opening spaces for citizen participation. These results coincide with several works which have shown the limits the State o...
Due to the importance that the Internet has gained as a means of communication, literature on political communication has incorporated it as one of its preferred topics of focus. Literature stems almost entirely from Europe and the United States. Very little is known about the political use of new information and communication technologies (NICTs)...
Las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC´s) han traído una serie de promesas para la participación ciudadana y el establecimiento de una relación más estrecha y cercana en tre las autoridades políticas y los ciudadanos. En Chile, el Senado ha llevado dos programas (Senador Virtual y Chat de los senadores) que permiten a los ciudadanos...
Since 1884, and until to 1920, the political patronage in public employee's appointments was a main issue in Chilean political discussions. Not only politicians, but also the academia had focused in this topic, and had tried to present some solutions in order to correct the patronage evil. This paper studies a number of academic proposals in order...
Este trabajo estudia la discusión pública en torno a la reorganización ministerial llevada a cabo en Chile en 1887. A partir del debate sobre si el gobierno de Balmaceda tuvo orientaciones económicas distintas con respecto al resto de la elite, el artículo analiza cuáles eran las concepciones administrativas de los distintos actores políticos de la...
This works studies the public debate about Chile's 1887 ministerial reorganization. It begins with the debate regarding how different Balmaceda's government economic orientation was from the elite's. The article analyzes the administrative notions prevalent among different political actors of the period paying attention to similarities and differen...
Dentro de las reformas previsionales llevadas a cabo en Latinoamérica, el caso de Argentina presenta uno de los más bajos niveles de privatización. Ello ocurrió en un contexto de negociación entre el gobierno de Carlos Menem y la Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT). En esta nota de investigación se intenta dar un marco interpretativo que permit...
Introducción En el último tiempo, diversos problemas en diferentes ámbitos de la administración pública, han sido conocidos por la opinión pública, especialmente, en la gestión de salud. La acumulación de casos ha llevado a que diferentes actores políticos hayan traído al debate la necesidad de reformar al Estado. El primero en hacerlo fue el minis...