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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, Chile's first woman president. Lois Hecht Oppenheim focuses on recent efforts to reconstruct democ
List 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
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Lois Hecht Oppenheim is Professor of Political science at the University of Judaism.
Summary
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, Chile's first woman president.
