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DIAZ, NICOLÁS. An Unconcluded Journey: Divisions within Renovación Nacional During the Administration of Sebastián Piñera. Rev. cienc. polít. (Santiago) [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.2, pp.481-502. ISSN 0718-090X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2016000200004.

This paper investigates the internal divisions of Renovación Nacional during the Sebastián Piñera administration through a series of interviews to party members, congressman and party leaders. Even though the press and the literature tends to explain differences within RN due to the existence of a liberal pole and a conservative pole, current fractures follow a more complex logic. During the last decade party conflicts have been restructured around the party leadership and its democratic appeal (verticalists vs. horizontalists), and around the confrontation between the ruling board (mesa directiva) and the government (larrainistas vs. piñeristas). This new cleavages indicate an internal reconfiguration and repositioning of party leaders.

Palabras clave : Renovación Nacional; internal democracy; party system; Chile; caudillism.

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