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It is often suggested that public policies "fail" when they are formulated and/or implemented in contexts of diversity, specifically for Indigenous Peoples. This article uses a framework developed by McConnell [2010a. "Policy Success, Policy Failure and Gray Areas in-Between." Journal of International Public Policy 30 (3): 345–362] in order to explain if and why "policy failure" has occurred for Indigenous public policies, using the case of Chile. Data were collected through 30 interviews and an analysis of official documents, literature, and media sources. The findings derived from the empirical analysis show (a) the usefulness of this framework to identify the main dimensions that affect the policy process and its outcomes in Indigenous policies; (b) the interdependence between policy design and the processes/programmes of policies; (c) the relevance of the cultural and political dimension of Indigenous people to prevent policy failure; (d) the little influence of the political dimension on policy failures. Overall, the article makes an important contribution to how Indigenous policies can be assessed and contributes to the broader literature on policy failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today is important that public bureaucracies represent the needs of those citizens considered diverse, being relevant the contribution of the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy. To ensure pluralism and legitimacy in public policies is necessary that public managers activate their sense of representation, making decisions on behalf of those citizens diverse. This article identifies and analyses the main factors that inhibit the emergence of an active representation in indigenous public managers from a Latin American case, considering three levels of analysis: individual, organizational and socio-political context. The main information arises from in-depth interviews applied to 25 key actors who have played a role at different stages in the indigenous policy process, along with press analysis and official documents. The evidence shows important differences in the Chilean case regarding other experiences in Europe and the United States, based principally on political and administrative characteristics, that apply to other Latin American cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The search for good governance has become a challenge for the Latin American States in response to the demands of representation of indigenous peoples that have emerged as political actors in the last decades. In contexts of Nation-State and Weberian bureaucracies, the analysis of the indigenous policy implementation process shows the tension to governance models and the relevance to incorporate concepts as power, hegemony, or exclusion. From the Chilean case, this article analyzes the tensions, values, and interests that arise in governance contexts, based on an analysis model that shows the difficulties in defining the rules of governance, the processes of adjustment and cultural mismatch, the political and economic influence on the implementation process, between others. The main information arises from in-depth interviews applied to 44 key actors who have played a role at different stages in the process of implementation, along with press analysis and official documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article inquires on the indigenous policy formulation process in Chile in the Government of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1994-2000), based on multiple streams model (Kingdon, 1995) and social construction and policy design model (Ingram y Schneider, 1997). Such a conclusion is based on data collected through the application and analysis of 22 interviews to key actors involved in those processes as well as the collection and analysis of official documents and media. The article finds the contradictions between the President development agenda and territorial claims from indigenous people, showing the relevance of cultural variables as supportive of public policy formulation. Also describes the interest's collision between different actors to put their interest in public agenda, where the institutional framework created by the Law 19.253 show its weakness to represent the interest of indigenous people in political agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the development and implementation of indigenous policies in Chile during the presidency of Patricio Aylwin Azócar from 1990-1994. The author comments on the social conditions of the indigenous peoples of Chile and describes the cultural and social differences among these groups.

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Based on theoretical debate and empirical evidence, both raised in the context of State Reform and Modernization of Public Management processes, this paper proposes a model of synthesis and analysis that allows characterizing such processes. Using a case study methodology, this research demonstrates the usefulness of such a model to the Chilean case, during the 1990-2006 period. There is evidence of particular features of these processes of reform and modernization in the Chilean experience. Said conclusion is based on data collected through the application and analysis of 37 interviews to key actors involved in those processes as well as the collection and analysis of official documents. This article identifies, describes and explains the variables that define the Policy of Modernization of Public Management in the Chilean experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzing the public management modernization policy, from 1990 to 2006, the article identifies the model which might explain how policies are formulated in the country. This model has been identified from evidence collected through 37 interviews to key actors of the process, official documents, and media analysis. The model diverges from Kingdon and iadb's approaches, which are commonly used to explain the policy formulation process in Latin America. The article explains which might be the reasons of the divergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1992, Chile implemented for the first time a health program for indigenous peoples, the Health Program for the Mapuche Population (PROMAP), whose objective was to provide health care with cultural relevance, favoring the complementarity between the indigenous medical systems and the official system The current version of this initiative - named PESPI - has managed to reach almost all the Health Services in the country with this approach. The review that the academic world has made of these experiences, based on public health or medical anthropology, has focused on the analysis of the initiatives taken in rural indigenous contexts, from the point of view of the difficulties they have had to face and the meaning of the interculturality in health that they have managed to consolidate. However, little has been said about this program in urban contexts (currently, a space which our indigenous peoples are occupying progresively) or from the point of view of the notions of interculturality in health that they imply. Considering the above, the article offers a thematic review of national and international scientific publications on the subject, a critical analysis of intercultural health programs developed in Chile and a reflection on their challenges in the framework of urban indigenous dynamics.