Hope and Dissapointment in the Chilean Constitutional Moment: A Review of Social Rights and the Constitutional Moment. Learning from Chile and International Experiences

Abstract

The paper discusses the contributions published in "Social Rights and the Constitutional Moment. Learning from Chile and International Experiences" (Casla, Sepúlveda, Silva and Contreras, 2022), from the point of view of the Chilean constituent process and in light of the result of the plebiscite of September 4, 2022, in which an overwhelming majority of Chilean citizens rejected the draft of the new Constitution. It underlines the relevance of the contributions to think about constituent processes from the point of view of economic, social, and cultural rights (SERs) but---at the same time---it raises the necessary limits that they present if the root causes of the democratic dissatisfactions of our days are not addressed.