The Bachelet Government [electronic resource] : Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile /
Weeks, Gregory Bart.
Borzutzky, Silvia.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2010.
'The Bachelet Government' examines the policies, political issues, and conflicts of Bachelet's administration, and provides analyses of the challenges, successes, and failures experienced by the Concertacion since 1989.
Part I. Leadership, institutions, and coalitional crisis -- 1. What it takes to win and what it takes to govern: Michelle Bachelet and the Concertacion -- 2. Parties, personalities, and the President: the challenges of the Bachelet government's political narrative -- 3. The transition is dead, long live the transition: civil-military relations and the limits of consensus -- Part II. Socioeconomic policies and the decline of consensus -- 4. Socioeconomic policies: taming the market in a globalized economy -- 5. Challenging the consensus: the politics of protest and policy reform of Chile's education system -- 6. Unresolved conflicts within the consensus: Bachelet's inheritance of labor and employment issues -- 7. Continuity or change?: Gender policy in the Bachelet administration -- 8. Contesting private property rights: the environment and indgenous peoples -- 9. Conclusion. Paved with good intentions: the Bachelet administration and the decline of consensus.
'The Bachelet Government' examines the policies, political issues, and conflicts of Bachelet's administration, and provides analyses of the challenges, successes, and failures experienced by the Concertacion since 1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Bachelet, Michelle, 1951-