Chile's higher education trajectory illustrates how reforming market-based systems generates new institutional tensions rather than dissolving them.The 2018 Higher Education Law replaced student debt with state-funded access but reconfigured market competition as accreditation-driven compliance.The resulting managerial architecture produced quality-of-life frictions absent from the original student critique, complicating prospective counter-reforms and exposing the structural limits of the state-versus-market frame.hile built one of Latin America's most expansive higher education systems on market logic.It is now dismantling the consequences of that logic through state intervention.The Chilean trajectory offers a complete arc: from radical marketization to mass protest, from protest to legislative victory, and from victory to new institutional tensions that neither side of the original debate anticipated.
Julio Labraña (Thu,) studied this question.