Gender institutions and change in Bachelets Chile Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Gender Institutions and Change in Bachelets Chile; Georgina Waylen 1. Gendering Politics Institutions and the Executive: Bachelet in Context; Georgina Waylen 2. Bachelet is Back: Reform Prospects and the Future of Democracy in Chile; Peter M. Siavelis 3. Disrupting Informal Institutions Cabinet Formation in Chile in 2006 and 2014; Susan Franceschet 4. Promoting Gender Equality: Michelle Bachelet and Formal and Informal Change within the Chilean Presidency; Gwynn Thomas 5. Opportunities and constraints on gender egalitarian policy change: Michelle Bachelets social protection agenda (2006 2010); Silke Staab 6. Institutional Constraints on Engendering the health sector in Bachelets Chile; Jasmine Gideon and Gabriela Alvarez Minte 7. Formal and informal institutional challenges to womens reproductive Rights: Emergency Contraception and the Constitutional Tribunal in Chile; Carmen Sepulveda Zelaya 8. Comparing Michelle Bachelets Two Presidencies: Continuity or Change; Georgina Waylen Postscript; Maria de los Angeles Fernandez Ramil Michelle Bachelet Chiles first female president was elected in 2006 with an explicit gender agenda promising to appoint new faces (including women) to her government and implement some positive gender change. After a period as the first head of UN Women she was subsequently reelected for a second term in 2013 with a decisive majority. This volume focuses on Bachelets efforts in both her first and second administrations to introduce progressive measures in Chile and the constraints that she has faced in a context where both formal and informal political institutions can act as barriers to change. Written by leading experts in the field the chapters highlight both the successes of Bachelets governments and also the key battles that Bachelet faced for example with regard to reproductive rights electoral reform and social protection