The Struggle for democracy in Chile, 1982-1990
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The Struggle for democracy in Chile, 1982-1990
（Latin American studies series）
University of Nebraska Press, c1991
- : hbk
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Papers presented at a conference held in March 1989 which was sponsored by the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of California-San Diego, the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, and the Institute of the Americas in La Jolla
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-307) and index
Contents of Works
- Transformation and transition in Chile / Paul W. Drake and Iván Jaksić
- The military in power / Arturo Valenzuela
- The crisis of legitimacy of military rule in the 1980s / Augusto Varas
- The political economy of Chile's regime transition / Eduardo Silva
- Entrepreneurs under the military regime / Guillermo Campero
- The evolving roles of women under military rule / María Elena Valenzuela
- Unions and workers in Chile during the 1980s / Alan Angell
- The political opposition and the party system under the military regime / Manuel Antonio Garretón
- External factors and the authoritarian regime / Carlos Portales
- The economic challenges of democratic development / Felipe Larráin B
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After a decade of dictatorship, the resurrection of democratic forces in Chile began with the debt crisis and recession of the early 1980s. Mass demonstrations erupted and political parties revived with unexpected vigour despite the repression of General Augusto Pinochet's regime. In 1988, to the astonishment of the world, Pinochet allowed his opponents to win an honest plebiscite and accepted the resulting transition to democracy. "The Struggle for Democracy in Chile, 1982-1990" discusses in comprehensive detail that unusual transition. This book provides background on the evolution of the military dictatorship in the 1970s and then concentrates on its erosion in the 1980s. It concludes with the installation of Patricio Aylwin as the democratically-elected president in 1990. Essays examine how the most significant social and political sectors reacted to liberalization in the 1980s, and how the opposition took advantage of the dictatorship's own legality to bring about an end to authoritarian rule.
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