Éxito electoral y gasto en campaña en las elecciones de senadores y diputados en Chile 2013

Abstract

Campaign spending is one of the most relevant factors for the electoral success of a political player. This situation shows how important it is to regulate the relationship between politics and money, in order to avoid problems of representation, entry barriers to the political field, potential conflicts of interest, and corruption. This paper offers a descriptive analysis of the election of senators and deputies in Chile 2013, in which a linear relation is observed between campaign spending and votes obtained by every political party involved. This situation confirms the importance of economic capital in the electoral process.

Bastián González-Bustamante

Post-doctoral Researcher

Post-doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science and a lecturer in Governance and Development at the Institute of Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University, Netherlands. Lecturer at the School of Public Administration at Universidad Diego Portales and Research Associate in Training Data Lab, Chile.