Peer-Reviewed Articles

Contreras, G. 2025. "Outsourcing Machines. How programmatic parties include clientelistic strategies." Comparative Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241271310.

Awarded Best Article in the Latin American Political Institutions Section (LAPIS), LASA 2025.

Awarded Best Article in the Subnational Politics & Society section, LASA 2025.

Contreras, G. and M. Morales. 2026. "The Return to Compulsory Voting: Invalid Voting and its Representational Challenges in Chile's Subnational Elections." Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217261460721.

Contreras, G. 2026. "Clientelism Without Machines. The Use of Community-Based Groups as Organisational Substitutes." Latin American Politics and Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10066.

Contreras, G. and M. Morales. 2024. "Masking turnout inequality. Invalid voting and class bias when compulsory voting is reinstated." Electoral Studies, Volume 92 (2024), 102878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102878.

Belmar, F., G. Contreras, M. Morales, C. Troncoso. 2024. "Demanding Non-Programmatic Distribution: Evidence From Local Governments in Chile." Policy Studies, 45(1), 65–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2172718.

Contreras, G., and Morales, M. 2018. "Ethnic solidarity and the vote: Mapuche candidates and voters in Chile." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(11), 1954–1975. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1371582.

Contreras, G., Joignant, A. and Morales, M. 2015. "The return of censitary suffrage? The effects of automatic voter registration and voluntary voting in Chile." Democratization, vol. 22(1): pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2014.986720.

Cantillana C., Contreras, G., Morales, M., Oliva, D. and Perelló, L. 2017. "Malestar con la representación democrática en América Latina." Política y Gobierno, vol. 24(2): 245-274. https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1665-20372017000200245.

Cantillana, C., Contreras, G., and Morales, M. 2015. "Elecciones primarias y personalización de la política. El caso de las elecciones locales en Chile 2012." Revista de Ciencia Política, vol. 35(2), pp: 273-298. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2015000200002.

Contreras, G., and Navia, P. 2013. "Diferencias generacionales en la participación electoral en Chile: 1988-2010." Revista de Ciencia Política, vol. 33(2): pp. 419-441. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2013000200001.

Contreras, G. and Morales, M. 2017. "Why was the voluntary vote approved in Chile? Reasons and arguments that drove the reform." Revista Chilena de Derecho y Ciencia Política, vol 8(2), pp: 1-37.

Contreras, G., and Morales, M. 2014. "Jóvenes y participación electoral en Chile 1989-2013. Analizando el efecto del voto voluntario." Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, 12(2): pp. 597-615.

Contreras, G. and Varas, A. 2015. "Inconsistencia de estatus y conducta electoral en Chile." Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 34: pp. 22-46.