Kirsten Sehnbruch has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is author of The Chilean Labour Market (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)and of Chile under the Concertación (with Peter Siavelis, Lynne Rienner, forthcoming).
The governance formula that characterized the Concertación governments and now the current centre-right administration was created to transition from the Pinochet regime rather than to allow for citizen participation in the policy-making process. The most important success of the current protests