Del “Crecimiento con Equidad” al “Sistema de Protección Social”: La matriz ideológica del Chile actual (1990-2007)

Abstract

This paper proposes a revisiting of the modernization project of Growth with Equity,currently operating in Chile (1990-2007). Following the triple meaning given to the notion of ideology by Žižek (1994, 9) this work suggests that it is useful to analyze suc a project as an ideological matrix, which shows peculiarities at the level of the doctrinarian paradigm that configures it, the modernizing formula proposed, the principles and logics of actuation that guide the political elites as well as in the “tactical adjustment” registered during the first decade of the twenty first century. This has given rise to a matrix of high hegemonic effectiveness, based on the perpetuation of the status given to the factor of equity within the hegemonic formula (C-->E)-->D. Equity becomes an explanandum, which is excluded from the exercise of the political imagination of citizens.