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Vol. 40 No. 1 (2020)

The Judicialization of Protest and Its Outcomes: A Typology of Legal Mobilization in Post-Transitional Chile (1990-2018)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2020000100073
Submitted
March 26, 2020
Published
2020-03-26

Abstract

There is abundant literature on the outcomes of legal mobilization, although there is no agreement on its effective influence on decision-making. This article explains the outcomes of different uses of legal mobilization by exploring the organizational resources, political and legal opportunities held by a series of actors who mobilized the law during the period under study. Based on the observation of these variables, four uses of legal mobilization are identified: residual by environmental organizations; exclusive by private health insurance affiliates; predominant by the anti-day after pill movement; symbolic by sexual minorities. It is argued that legal mobilization effectively influenced decision-making only when used in a symbolic way.

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