Constitutionalism and Dictatorship - Pinochet, the Junta, and the 1980 Constitution

Klappentext It challenges long standing accepted wisdom about dictatorship and institutions. Zusammenfassung It is widely believed that autocratic regimes cannot limit their power 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Dictatorship! legality! and institutional constraints; 2. The Constitution of the Exception: defining the rules of military rule; 3. The constitution and the Dictatorship: The Supreme Court and the constitutionality of decree-laws; 4. The shadowy boundary between force and law: the judiciary! repression! and the cosmetic limitation of emergency powers; 5. Constitutionalization without transition: prompting the dual constitution of 1980; 6. The permanent text: constitutional controls or military tutelage?; 7. Even custom shoes bind: military rule under the constitution! 1981-1988; 8. Military dictatorship and constitutionalism in Chile.

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• Authors: Robert Barros, Robert (Universidad Mayor De ''San Andres' Barros, Robert (Universidad Mayor de 'San Andres' Barros, Robert John Barros, Barros Robert
• Assisted by: Adam Przeworski (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521792189
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79218-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Theor; Cambridge Studies in the Theor; Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Chile, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, LAW / Comparative, Political Economy, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, comparative law, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship