num_pages: 368
description: 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. Based on extensive documentation of military decision-making, much of it long classified and unavailable, this book reconstructs the politics of institutions within the recent Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990).
language: English
title: Constitutionalism and Dictatorship: Pinochet, the Junta, and the 1980 Constitution
titlecomplete: Constitutionalism and Dictatorship: Pinochet, the Junta, and the 1980 Constitution (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy, Series Number 4)
ratings_count: 2
series: Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy
publisher: Cambridge University Press