Politics in Chile: Socialism, Authoritarianism, and Market Democracy

Author: Lois Hecht Oppenheim
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Category: History Of The Americas, Politics & Government
Book Format: Paperback

The third edition of Politics in Chile provides significantly updated coverage of Chilean politics and economic development from the return to civilian rule in 1990 to the 2006 election and early administration of Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chiles first woman president. Lois Hecht Oppenheim focuses on recent efforts to reconstruct democratic practices and institutions, including resolving such sensitive and lingering issues as human-rights violations under Pinochet and civil-military relations. Chapters on the contemporary politics and economics under the civilian Concertacin governments are largely rewritten for this edition. Rather than focusing on the search for development, the third edition considers in greater depth the exceptionalism of the Chilean economic experiment through successive stages of stability, socialism, and neoliberalism.

Table Of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition


Part 1: Introduction

1. An Overview of Chilean Politics


Part 2: Chile's Experiment in Socialism and the Collapse of Democracy, 1970-1973


2. The Popular Unity's Project: A Nonviolent Transition to Socialism


3. Overview of the Allende Years, 1970-1973: Major Issues and Political Dynamics


4. The System Collapses: Causes of the Military Coup


Part 3: Chile Under Military Rule, 1973-1989


5. The Military in Power:Creating a New Chile


6. The Neoliberal Economic Model and Its Social and Political Consequences


7. Political Opposition to Military Rule and the Reawakening of Civil Society


Part 4: Continuities and Change in Post-Pinochet Chile: Market Democracy Under the Concertacion


8. Chile as an Economic "Jaguar": An Evaluation of Concertacion Economic Policy


9. The Long Transition Ends: Democracy Consolidated

About Lois Hecht Oppenheim

Lois Hecht Oppenheim is Professor of Political science at the University of Judaism.