Research Projects

2021

  • Political economy of Chilean trade policy since 1990. Winners, losers and trade-offs
    Responsible Researcher:
    Alfonso Dingemans
    Project Code:
    397
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2024
  • Analysis of the political process of Michelle Bachelet's educational reform (2014-2017). From demands to results
    Responsible Researcher:
    Marcelo Mella
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2023
  • Study on risk factors and prognosis of legal, criminal and/or penitentiary recidivism in prisoners of closed Chilean prison system
    Responsible Researcher:
    Mauricio Olavarría Gambi
    Project Code:
    1210254
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2025

2020

  • History and Public Policy. History of the Chilean pension system
    Responsible Researcher:
    Mauricio Olavarría Gambi
    Project Code:
    032052OG
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2022

2019

  • Asylum, resettlement and visas in Chile. What lessons does national experience leave for public policy?
    Responsible Researcher:
    Irene Magaña Frade
    Co-investigator:
    Bernardo Navarrete Yañez
    Project Code:
    031952NC
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2021
  • Legitimacy and public trust of law enforcement institutions in Chile
    Responsible Researcher:
    Lucía Dammert
    Project Code:
    11180438
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2022

2018

  • How are local public policies formulated and implemented in Chile?
    Responsible Researcher:
    Bernardo Navarrete
    Project Code:
    031852NY
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2020
  • Effect of grade ranking in emblematic high schools of the capital in relation to access to higher education. Macro-consequences of micro- and meso- level dynamics
    Responsible Researcher:
    Nelson Paulus Sanitbáñez
    Funding sources
    Consejo Nacional de Educación
    Ending Year:
    2019

2017

  • Analytical elements for the construction of a social interpretation of fear of crime in Chile
    Responsible Researcher:
    Lucía Dammert
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2018
  • Adapting to survive. The strategies of international economic insertion in Chile and Argentina, 1850-1914
    Responsible Researcher:
    Alfonso Dingemans
    Project Code:
    1171471
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2020

2016

  • Formal and informal governance mechanisms of the university political system. A study of seven cases in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile. (2005-2015)
    Responsible Researcher:
    Marcelo Mella
    Project Code:
    031652MP
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2018
  • Identification of participation in adjustments of international economic insertion strategy in Chile, 1850-1885
    Responsible Researcher:
    Alfonso Dingemans
    Project Code:
    031652DC
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2017
  • “Who stole my ranking? Micro-reasons and macro-effects in the implementation of the grade ranking in the admission processes to the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH)”
    Responsible Researcher:
    Nelson Paulus Sanitbáñez
    Project Code:
    031652PS
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2018
  • Public Policy Agenda in the Old Chilean Democracy: case study on the modernization policies of public management and health
    Responsible Researcher:
    Mauricio Olavarría Gambi
    Project Code:
    1160626
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2018

2015

  • Review and Evaluation of the Didactics in the Methodological Training program for the Bachelor´s degree in International Studies
    Responsible Researcher:
    Nelson Paulus Sanitbáñez
    Project Code:
    Nº022
    Funding sources
    FAHU-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2016
  • Party System and Cleavage Theory. Evaluation of the nationalization argument from the democracy during 1937-1973 to the post-dictatorship democracy
    Responsible Researcher:
    Raúl Elgueta
    Co-investigator:
    Nelson Paulus Sanitbáñez
    Project Code:
    031594ER
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2016

2014

  • Evaluation of Acquisition and/or Development of Competencies in active and global citizenship among students and participants of the NMUN - USACH Workshop
    Responsible Researcher:
    Nelson Paulus Sanitbáñez
    Funding sources
    UNIE USACH
    Ending Year:
    2018

2013

  • Government coalitions in presidential regimes: case study on the mechanisms of formation, maintenance and dissolution in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile (1983 to 2010)
    Responsible Researcher:
    Marcelo Mella
    Project Code:
    031152MP
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2015
  • Impact on regional development and regional public opinion of the direct election of regional councillors
    Responsible Researcher:
    Nelson Paulus Sanitbáñez
    Funding sources
    DICYT-USACH
    Ending Year:
    2014
  • Historical background and political dynamics of the armed insurgency in Chile (1978-1994)
    Responsible Researcher:
    Igor Goicovic
    Co-investigator:
    Marcelo Mella
    Project Code:
    1130323
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2016

2012

  • Impact of political networks on decision-making processes for the allocation of regional resources. The Regional Councils in Chile 2010-2014
    Responsible Researcher:
    Vicente Espinoza
    Co-investigator:
    Alfonso Dingemans
    Project Code:
    1120846
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2015
  • Implementation of Public Policy in Chile. Case study on the modernization of public management, Plan AUGE-GES and Transantiago
    Responsible Researcher:
    Mauricio Olavarría Gambi
    Project Code:
    1120546
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2014
  • Regarding the migration policy in Chile. Agenda, institutions and veto players
    Responsible Researcher:
    Bernardo Navarrete
    Co-investigator:
    Mauricio Olavarria Gambi
    Project Code:
    1120762
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2014
  • Study on the effects of geographic structuring on competition in school education through the use of geographic information systems and agent-based modeling
    Responsible Researcher:
    Manuel Vivanco
    Co-investigator:
    Nelson Paulus Sanitbáñez
    Project Code:
    1120598
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2015

2011

  • Economic insertion of Chile and Argentina in the Asia Pacific 1975-2010. A historical-institutional perspective
    Responsible Researcher:
    Alfonso Dingemans
    Project Code:
    3120110
    Funding sources
    ANID-FONDECYT
    Ending Year:
    2014