Constitutionalism and dictatorship : Pinochet, the Junta, and the 1980 constitution /
"It is widely believed that autocratic regimes cannot limit their powers through institutions of their own making. This book presents a surprising challenge to this view. It demonstrates that the Chilean armed forces were constrained by institutions of their own design. Based on extensive docum...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dictatorship, Legality, and Institutional Constraints
- Dictatorship and Unbound Power
- Sovereignty, Self-Binding, and Limits
- Precommitment and Credible Commitment
- Nonmonocratic Dictatorship and Collective Foundations for Ongoing Institutional Limits
- The Constitution of the Exception: Defining the Rules of Military Rule
- Initial Unknowns
- 1974-1975: The Separation of Powers
- Defining the Presidency: The Demise of Rotation
- D.L. No. 527: The Estatuto de La Junta de Gobierno
- Defining Legislative Procedures
- Personalization and Authoritarian Institutional Constraints
- The Constitution and the Dictatorship: The Supreme Court and the Constitutionality of Decree-Laws
- The Status of the Constitution of 1925
- The Supreme Court and Decree-Laws
- The Contraloria and the Legality of Administrative Acts
- Civil Law and the Limits of Judicial Review
- The Shadowy Boundary between Force and Law: The Judiciary, Repression, and the Cosmetic Limitation of Emergency Powers
- Combating the Enemy in Time of War
- The Supreme Court and Military Justice
- The Judiciary and the Recurso de Amparo
- Law and the Boundaries of Prudential Self-Limitation
- Constitutionalization without Transition: Prompting the Dual Constitution of 1980
- The 1980 Constitution and Its Discontents
- Making Sense of the Making of the Dictatorship's Constitution
- Prompting the Decision to Enact a New Constitution
- Permanent Military Rule and the Emergence of "The Transition."