Change in the Chilean Countryside

Change in the Chilean Countryside

Author: David E. Hojman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-06-18

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 134912334X

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Provides a study of the opportunities and dangers of Chile's transition from Pinochet's authoritarian, neo-liberalism in the 1970s and 1980s, to democratic agricultural development in the 1990s. International experts address issues such as continuity and change in policymaking and legitimacy.


Development and Social Change in the Chilean Countryside

Development and Social Change in the Chilean Countryside

Author: Cristóbal Kay

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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The essays collected in this book show that the agrarian question in Chile has had a major influence on the country's social, political and economic problems since the early nineteenth century to the present process of democratization.


Travels in a Thin Country

Travels in a Thin Country

Author: Sara Wheeler

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2009-09-23

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0307560767

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Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as one of the very best travel writers in the world.


Those Who Knew

Those Who Knew

Author: Idra Novey

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0525560440

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Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by * NPR * Esquire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Real Simple * BBC * PopSugar * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub “A gripping, astute, and deeply humane political thriller.” —The Boston Globe “Mesmerizing [and] uncannily prescient.”—Los Angeles Times A taut, timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down, from the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear. On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S.-supported regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who's been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship. Why didn't Lena speak up then, and will her family's support of the former regime still impact her credibility? What if her hunch about this young woman's death is wrong? What follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country. Those Who Knew confirms Novey's place as an essential new voice in American fiction.


Water Policy in Chile

Water Policy in Chile

Author: Guillermo Donoso

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 331976702X

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This book offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Chile’s water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, hydrological droughts, and future projected impacts of climate change. It describes, analyzes and evaluates the performance of water policies, laws and institutions, identifies the main challenges that Chile needs to face and derives lessons learnt from Chile’s reform experience. Expert contributors discuss such topics as Chile’s water policy, and the reasoning which explains its policy reform. The book presents and evaluates the performance of the legal and institutional framework of water resources. It also describes efforts to meet actual demands for water by augmenting supplies with groundwater management, waste water re-use and desalination and improve the state of water ecosystems. The last chapter presents the editor’s assessment and conclusions. The case of Chile is illustrative of a transition from command and control to market based management policies, where economic incentives play a significant role in water management.


Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside

Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside

Author: Marcus J. Kurtz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-04-05

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1139451804

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This book examines the relationship between free markets and democracy. It demonstrates how the implementation of even very painful free-market economic reforms in Chile and Mexico have helped to consolidate democratic politics without engendering a backlash against either reform or democratization. This national-level compatibility between free markets and democracy, however, is founded on their rural incompatibility. In the countryside, free-market reforms socially isolate peasants to such a degree that they become unable to organize independently, and are vulnerable to the pressures of local economic elites. This helps to create an electoral coalition behind free-market reforms that is critically based in some of the market's biggest victims: the peasantry. The book concludes that the comparatively stable free-market democracy in Latin America hinges critically on its defects in the countryside; conservative, free-market elites may consent to open politics only if they have a rural electoral redoubt.


The History of Chile

The History of Chile

Author: John L. Rector

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-11-29

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 140396257X

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A colorful history of Chile from prehistoric times to the present


Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America

Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America

Author: H. Veltmeyer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1349255297

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The 1980s in Latin America saw the implementation of a sweeping programme of economic reforms, either imposed as a condition for securing new loans or to embrace the neoliberal doctrine of structural adjustment, the ideology of a newly formed transnational capitalist class. However, the structural adjustment programme also generated widespread resistance, especially from within the popular sector of civil society. This book analyses both the politics of the adjustment process and the political dynamics of this resistance in Latin America.


Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set J: Politics and International Relations

Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set J: Politics and International Relations

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-01-18

Total Pages: 1788

ISBN-13: 1136858407

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Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science. The books cover the most important themes within development and include studies of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Authors include Sir Alexander Cairncross, W. Arthur Lewis, Lord Peter Bauer and Cristobal Kay. An extensive collection of previously hard to access or out of print books, this set presents an unrivalled opportunity to build up a wealth of material in the field of development studies, with a particular focus upon economic and political concerns. The volumes in the collection offer both a global overview of the history of development in the twentieth century, and a huge variety of case studies on the development of individual nations. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact [email protected] (customers in the UK, Europe and Rest of World)