The Politics Of Technopols: Resources,Political Competence And Collective Leadership In Chile, 1990-2010

摘要

This article systematically analyses the inner circle of the coalition that governed Chile between 1990 and ioio. To this end, it takes the notion of'technopol' and transforms it into a sociological category by clearly identifying the nature of the 'technical' and 'political' resources of 20 agents who served as ministers and undersecretaries in key government posts. Over two decades these agents provided the governing coalition, the Concertacion, with a form of collective leadership. The article thus shows that only this small group of powerful agents can be termed technopols since only they exhibited 'tech' and 'pol' resources as well as a particular form of political competence, making it possible to differentiate them from technocrats and politicians.