Here’s the Bias! A (Re-)Reassessment of the Chilean Electoral System

Most scholars of the Chilean legislative electoral system, also known as the binomial system, have noted the many ways the system was designed specifically to benefit the outgoing military government. However, some recent work has sought to challenge this conventional wisdom. In this paper, we acknowledge some faults with earlier analyses, while systematically unpacking the crucial errors and assumptions used in contesting the accepted wisdom.