O mito da racionalidade institucional e a construção da democracia no processo de emergência e consolidação do Estado chileno.

Abstract

The analytical references to the Nation and to the political practices in Chile were commonly followed by the notion of instance when one was dealing with Latin American
region. In this paper, one tried to bring up some problems about this notion which collaborated with the creation of the myth of theses spheres of Chilean politics. For that, one
elaborated a dialog among some of the most recent interpretations of the political historiography about the theme. Moreover, one observed, through this dialog, the process of
arrangement and consolidation of democratic institutions in the country, emphasizing the Constitutions, the right to the suffrage and the institutionalization of the political party. The perspective adopted here is based on the Letter of 1925, because, on one hand, it is about a referential document in the organization of political life of the country and, on the other hand, it would have been, through this document, that Chileans started to live under the biggest period of democratic stability of its history, which one was ended in 1973 with the military intervention.