Literature on informal political institutions has focused on the national level, disregarding sub... more Literature on informal political institutions has focused on the national level, disregarding sub-national contexts where one can expect increased informality. This article analyzes locally allocated Chilean public investment to understand how informal institutions affect regional development and local democracy. Based on 59 interviews with key stakeholders and national authorities, this research analyses the flow of the decision-making process on funds for regional investment. The results show that local bureaucrats introduce innovations to cope with the weaknesses of formal decision-making regulations, and that these may become informal institutions that complement or accommodate the process to obtain the outcomes expected under the formal rule.
There is a growing awareness that a whole-societal "Great Transformation" of Polanyian scale is n... more There is a growing awareness that a whole-societal "Great Transformation" of Polanyian scale is needed to bring global developmental trajectories in line with ecological imperatives. The mainstream Sustainable Development discourse, however, insists in upholding the myth of compatibility of current growth-based trajectories with biophysical planetary boundaries. This article explores potentially fertile complementarities among trendy discourses challenging conventional notions of (un)sustainable development-Human Development, Degrowth, and Buen Vivir-and outlines pathways for their realization. Human Development presents relative transfor-mative strengths in political terms, while Degrowth holds keys to unlocking unsustainable material-structural entrenchments of contemporary socioeconomic arrangements, and Buen Vivir offers a space of cultural alterity and critique of the Euro-Atlantic cultural constellation. The weaknesses or blind spots ('Achilles heels') of each discourse can be compensated through the strengths of the other ones, creating a dialogical virtuous circle that would open pathways towards a global new "Great Transformation". As one of the main existing platforms for pluralist and strong-sustainability discussions, Ecological Economics is in a privileged position to deliberately foster such strategic discursive dialogue. A pathway towards such dialogue is illuminated through a model identifying and articulating key discursive docking points.
Based on empirical study of the currently development discourses
held by key-actors in the Gran ... more Based on empirical study of the currently development discourses
held by key-actors in the Gran Concepción, Chile, this article raises up some theoretical implications according to its results. There are two main issues when we talk about the couple if terms development-sustainability: the power of social representations and the opening question about the representativity on decisions
regarding development and sustainability. This connects environmental issues with a claim of citizenship and with the social priorities that we –as a country- accept.
Los momentos constituyentes son oportunidades de cuestionamiento y de replanteamientos profundos.... more Los momentos constituyentes son oportunidades de cuestionamiento y de replanteamientos profundos. Sentarnos hoy a escribir las bases para un nuevo pacto social, evidentemente en crisis, es imposible sin incluir la dimensión ecológica. En ese espíritu, en este documento presentamos 5 propuestas que podrían abrir camino a las transformaciones socio ecológicas que nuestros tiempos demandan. Todas estas propuestas tienen en el corazón los principios de democracia, equidad de género, derechos humanos y justicia ambiental.
Literature on informal political institutions has focused on the national level, disregarding sub... more Literature on informal political institutions has focused on the national level, disregarding sub-national contexts where one can expect increased informality. This article analyzes locally allocated Chilean public investment to understand how informal institutions affect regional development and local democracy. Based on 59 interviews with key stakeholders and national authorities, this research analyses the flow of the decision-making process on funds for regional investment. The results show that local bureaucrats introduce innovations to cope with the weaknesses of formal decision-making regulations, and that these may become informal institutions that complement or accommodate the process to obtain the outcomes expected under the formal rule.
There is a growing awareness that a whole-societal "Great Transformation" of Polanyian scale is n... more There is a growing awareness that a whole-societal "Great Transformation" of Polanyian scale is needed to bring global developmental trajectories in line with ecological imperatives. The mainstream Sustainable Development discourse, however, insists in upholding the myth of compatibility of current growth-based trajectories with biophysical planetary boundaries. This article explores potentially fertile complementarities among trendy discourses challenging conventional notions of (un)sustainable development-Human Development, Degrowth, and Buen Vivir-and outlines pathways for their realization. Human Development presents relative transfor-mative strengths in political terms, while Degrowth holds keys to unlocking unsustainable material-structural entrenchments of contemporary socioeconomic arrangements, and Buen Vivir offers a space of cultural alterity and critique of the Euro-Atlantic cultural constellation. The weaknesses or blind spots ('Achilles heels') of each discourse can be compensated through the strengths of the other ones, creating a dialogical virtuous circle that would open pathways towards a global new "Great Transformation". As one of the main existing platforms for pluralist and strong-sustainability discussions, Ecological Economics is in a privileged position to deliberately foster such strategic discursive dialogue. A pathway towards such dialogue is illuminated through a model identifying and articulating key discursive docking points.
Based on empirical study of the currently development discourses
held by key-actors in the Gran ... more Based on empirical study of the currently development discourses
held by key-actors in the Gran Concepción, Chile, this article raises up some theoretical implications according to its results. There are two main issues when we talk about the couple if terms development-sustainability: the power of social representations and the opening question about the representativity on decisions
regarding development and sustainability. This connects environmental issues with a claim of citizenship and with the social priorities that we –as a country- accept.
Los momentos constituyentes son oportunidades de cuestionamiento y de replanteamientos profundos.... more Los momentos constituyentes son oportunidades de cuestionamiento y de replanteamientos profundos. Sentarnos hoy a escribir las bases para un nuevo pacto social, evidentemente en crisis, es imposible sin incluir la dimensión ecológica. En ese espíritu, en este documento presentamos 5 propuestas que podrían abrir camino a las transformaciones socio ecológicas que nuestros tiempos demandan. Todas estas propuestas tienen en el corazón los principios de democracia, equidad de género, derechos humanos y justicia ambiental.
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held by key-actors in the Gran Concepción, Chile, this article raises up some theoretical implications according to its results. There are two main issues when we talk about the couple if terms development-sustainability: the power of social representations and the opening question about the representativity on decisions
regarding development and sustainability. This connects environmental issues with a claim of citizenship and with the social priorities that we –as a country- accept.
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held by key-actors in the Gran Concepción, Chile, this article raises up some theoretical implications according to its results. There are two main issues when we talk about the couple if terms development-sustainability: the power of social representations and the opening question about the representativity on decisions
regarding development and sustainability. This connects environmental issues with a claim of citizenship and with the social priorities that we –as a country- accept.