Lisa Hilbink, “Constitutional Rewrite in Chile: Moving toward a Social and Democratic Rule of Law?” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, vol. 13, no. 2 (2021): 223-234.
Summary: Chile has often drawn the global spotlight, serving as a laboratory for some of the most dramatic political experiments of the past fifty-plus years. Popular discontent with the economic system and authoritarian political institutions that maintained has grown in recent years, and in October 2019, boiled over in massive street protests referred to as the “social explosion” (estallido social). After a month of upheaval, elected officials from across the political spectrum negotiated a formal agreement, acceding to one of the key demands of the protestors: a democratic path to constitutional replacement. Chile is thus once again drawing international attention as it pursues an experiment in constitutional rewrite within democracy.