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Democratic Chile : the politics and policies of a historic coalition, 1990-2010 /
How was Chile transformed both politically and economically during the two decades of center-left coalition (Concertación) government that followed the country's return to democracy in 1990? How did the coalition manage to hold on to power for so long--but not longer? And were its policies in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colorado :
Lynne Rienner Publishers,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; copyright page; Contents; Foreword; ch1-Political and Economic Life Under the Rainbow; Part1-Political Development; ch2-From a Necessary to a Permanent Coalition; The Birth of the Coalition; The Roots of Success; Ministerial Power Sharing Arrangements; External-Formal Relations: Executive Outreach; External-Informal Relations: Democracia de los Acuerdos; Transitional Enclaves; Conclusion; Notes; ch3-The Alianza's Quest to Win Power Democratically; The Party System in Chile; The Divided Right; Expanding the Electoral Support Base.
- Are Chileans Moving Right or Is the Alianza Moving to the Center?Conclusion; Note; ch4-Democratizing Chile Through Constitutional Reforms; Playing by the Rules, 1984-2000; Eliminating the Authoritarian Enclaves, 2000-2005; Deepening Democracy, 2005-2010; Conclusion; Notes; ch5-The Military and Twenty Years of the Concertación; General Pinochet and Democracy, 1990-1998; Civil-Military Normalization, 1999-2005; Normalized and Incomplete, 2006-2010; Conclusion: The End of a Civil-Military Era; Notes; ch6-Political Reform and Gender Equality; A Society in Transition.
- The Legislative Influence of the Catholic ChurchJockeying for Power Within the Concertación; Legislative Reforms on Women's Rights Under Concertación Governments; The Role of Bachelet in Supporting Gender Equality; Case Studies; Conclusion: Gender Equality Under a Right Government; Notes; ch7-Human Rights Under the Concertación; Setting the Tone: Early Muting of the "Human Rights Question"; "Rights Talk" and the Left-Right Divide; How We Got Here: Frei and the Consolidation of Human Rights; 1998 and Beyond: What the Pinochet Case Did and Did Not Change.
- Accountability and Its Limits in the Concertación's Second DecadeBachelet and the Politics of Memory; Conclusion; Notes; Part2-Economic and Social Development; ch8-Economic Policy and the Ideology of Stability; The Political Psychology of the Model: The Stability Imperative; The Politics of the Chilean Development Model; A Map of the Chilean Macroeconomic Development Model; The Weaknesses of the Chilean Model; Notes; ch9-Fiscal Policy: Promoting Faustian Growth; The Political Background of Tax Reform in Chile; Tax Policies and Structures; Spending on Poverty but Not on Inequality; Conclusion.
- Notesch10-Reducing Poverty: Real or Rhetorical Success?; Evolution of the Official Poverty Rate; The Role of Growth, Social Expenditure, and Redistribution; Multidimensional Poverty and the Entitlement Approach; Social Welfare Benefits and Programs; Chile Solidario; Conclusion; Notes; ch11-Social Policies: From Social Debt to Welfare State?; A Social Protection System or a Welfare State?; Health Insurance Reforms Under the Concertación; Chile's Pension System; Unemployment Insurance; Conclusion; Notes; ch12-A Precarious Labor Market; Labor Reform and the Position of Unions.