If you’re into political geography, emotions in politics, or how democracies navigate deep divisions, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks to Environment and Planning C for welcoming this piece.

📖 Happy to share the paper once it’s out!
#PoliticalGeography #Chile #Constitution (7/7)

Chile is the only country in the world (so far!) to reject 2 constitutional proposals in just a couple of years. Understanding how people feel about those processes is key to understanding what happened. 💡🇨🇱 Most research on “geographies of discontent” looks at votes.
But emotions matter too. (6/7)

This suggests that territorial marginalization can create a persistent emotional distance from democratic processes. And that feeling of being left out? It cuts across political divides.

It’s not just who’s in power—it’s where power happens. (5/7)

The main finding:
🧭 People in urban areas farther from political hubs were more likely to feel emotions like mistrust, confusion, and uncertainty—towards both processes (one led by the left, the other by the right).

So it’s not just ideology—it’s geography. (4/7)

I looked at two rounds of Chile’s recent constitutional processes—yes, the two that were both rejected via national plebiscites. 🇨🇱📜

My data?
Two face-to-face surveys in Valparaíso region, with over 3,000 participants. (3/7)

What happens when political change feels far away—not just ideologically, but physically?

In this paper, I explore how living far from political centers affects how people feel about democracy and political processes. Not just what they think—but what they feel. 💔 (2/7)

Thanks! 😊

These results help us understand the complex dynamics between political efficacy and online engagement—especially how different measures impact what we find in political behaviour research. 5/5

The findings? Internal efficacy doesn’t show a strong relationship with online participation. However, external efficacy is linked to being a super citizen or expressive citizen, while online efficacy increases the likelihood of being a super, expressive, or clicktivist citizen 4/5

Using Latent Class Analysis, we identified 5 types of online political participants: clicktivists, super citizens, disengaged, selective citizens, and expressive citizens. 3/5

Political efficacy is key to understanding engagement, but most studies don’t differentiate the types of online political participation. This study fills that gap by looking at how internal, external, and online efficacy affect online engagement in Chile 🇨🇱. 2/5

In case you want to engage with our work and give us some feedback, the paper (AOM version) is fully available here 👇 (3/3) osf.io/preprints/so...

These results are yet another invitation to consider the role of space when analysing political disaffection and engagement, especially in the context of high centralism and territorial concentration. (2/3) #Chile