Democracy After Pinochet

by Angell, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781900039741
• ISBN10: 1900039745
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of London

Summary

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 Chilean 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, five and six analyse the 1989, 1993, 1999/2000 and 2005/6 presidential elections. Chapter seven investigates how the Pinochet factor influenced developments after 1990 and the Chilean reaction to Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998. Chapter eight assess changes in the Chilean party system and links these to similar processes elsewhere, and 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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Alan Angell was University Lecturer in Latin American Politics and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and has been the Director of the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Acronyms	p. xiv
The Chilean Coup of 1973: A Perspective from 30 Years On	p. 1
International Support for the Chilean Opposition 1973-89: Political Parties and the Role of Exiles	p. 7
The Chilean Elections of 1989 and the Politics of the Transition to Democracy	p. 32
The Chilean Elections of 1993: From Polarisation to Consensus	p. 62
The Chilean Presidential Elections of 1999-2000 and Democratic Consolidation	p. 87
Change or Continuity? The Chilean Elections of 2005-06	p. 112
The Pinochet Factor in Chilean Politics	p. 139
Party Change in Chile in Comparative Perspective	p. 163
The Facts or Popular Perceptions? A Paradox in the Assessment of Chilean Democracy	p. 190
References	p. 215
Index	p. 221
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