Democracy After Pinochet
Subtitle: Politics, Parties, And Elections, in Chile
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: February 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781900039710
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Political Science; Political Process - Elections; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Chile; Government - International; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Process - General; Latin America - South America; Political Process - Political Parties
Description: This book explores how democracy has developed in Chile since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. It brings together an examination of international influences on the country's political development with empirically based analyses of Chilean political institutions and change. Chapters one and two examine international aspects of the 1973 coup and how these influenced the development of politics inside Chile. Chapters three, four, and five provide empirical analyses of the 1989, 1993, and 1999/2000 presidential elections, respectively. Chapter six investigates how the Pinochet factor influenced developments after 1990 and the Chilean reaction to Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998. Chapter seven assesses changes in the Chilean party system and links these to similar processes elsewhere. The final chapter examines the paradox that despite economic and social advances, opinion polls report a low level of attachment to democracy and very low levels of confidence in political institutions.