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Author: Gwynn Thomas
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0271048484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines the role in Chilean politics during the 1970s and 1980s of cultural beliefs and values surrounding the family. Draws on election propaganda, political speeches, press releases, public service campaigns, magazines, newspaper articles, and televised political advertisements"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Sebastian Brett
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781564321923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory and Legal Norms
Author: Javiera Barandiaran
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-07-31
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0262347423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a “neutral broker” rather than protecting the common good. In Science and Environment in Chile, Javiera Barandiarán examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge. Focusing on the experience of Chile after it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, she examines a series of environmental conflicts in which the state tried to act as a “neutral broker” rather than the protector of the common good. She argues that this shift in the role of the state—occurring in other countries as well—is driven in part by the political ideology of neoliberalism, which favors market mechanisms and private initiatives over the actions of state agencies. Chile has not invested in environmental science labs, state agencies with in-house capacities, or an ancillary network of trusted scientific advisers—despite the growing complexity of environmental problems and increasing popular demand for more active environmental stewardship. Unlike a high modernist “empire” state with the scientific and technical capacity to undertake large-scale projects, Chile's model has been that of an “umpire” state that purchases scientific advice from markets. After describing the evolution of Chilean regulatory and scientific institutions during the transition, Barandiarán describes four environmental crises that shook citizens' trust in government: the near-collapse of the farmed salmon industry when an epidemic killed millions of fish; pollution from a paper and pulp mill that killed off or forced out thousands of black-neck swans; a gold mine that threatened three glaciers; and five controversial mega-dams in Patagonia.
Author: Julia Adams
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1452205671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 2011 uprisings in the Arab world, protesters demanded the ouster of authoritarian forms of rule and an end to the influence of ruling families on politics, society, and the economy. These upheavals revealed that patrimonial power in its diverse forms is still a dynamic force in global politics, able to shape world events. This volume brings the study of patrimonialism back to center stage and presents the concept as a useful tool to analyze how nations, global developments, and international relations are influenced and transformed. Leading scholars show that patrimonial practices, present throughout history, are important features of global capitalist modernity. The authors analyze patrimonial politics in regions throughout the world, including in the United States, Tunisia, Chile, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Poland, and Russia. This volume will appeal to students of politics and policy and to a multidisciplinary scholarly audience in political sociology, historical social science, history, and social theory.
Author: Stephen M. Streeter
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2023-02-10
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1476688834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe military coup that toppled Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973 led to one of the most repressive military dictatorships in Latin American history. Although the coup's full origin remains one of the great mysteries of the Cold War, most assume that powers in Washington were largely to blame, given the long history of U.S. interventionism in Latin America. These assumptions were only strengthened by ongoing suspicions about the Nixon administration's role in a failed campaign to prevent Allende's inauguration in 1970. Providing a comprehensive account of the Nixon administration's efforts to undermine and unseat Allende, the book relies heavily on newly declassified records, addressing several crucial questions regarding U.S. involvement. The author explores several counterfactual scenarios to highlight important turning points and crucial decisions which contributed to the failure of Chilean democracy.
Author: Yanilda María González
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1108900380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the 'black box' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact reform.
Author: Camilo D. Trumper
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-07-26
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0520289919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitics under Salvador Allende was a battle fought in the streets. Everyday attempts to “ganar la calle” allowed a wide range of urban residents to voice potent political opinions. Santiaguinos marched through the streets chanting slogans, seized public squares, and plastered city walls with graffiti, posters, and murals. Urban art might only last a few hours or a day before being torn down or painted over, but such activism allowed a wide range of city dwellers to participate in the national political arena. These popular political strategies were developed under democracy, only to be reimagined under the Pinochet dictatorship. Ephemeral Histories places urban conflict at the heart of Chilean history, exploring how marches and protests, posters and murals, documentary film and street photography, became the basis of a new form of political change in Latin America in the late twentieth century.
Author: Onur Bakiner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0812247620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting political, judicial, and social change. He argues that even when commissions produce modest change as a result of political constraints, they open new avenues for human rights activism and transform public discourses on memory, truth, justice, and reconciliation.
Author: Lessie Jo Frazier
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2020-06-12
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0813597218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesiring the working class: a Spanish feminist, a bishop, an oligarchic state, and worker sexuality, circa 1913 -- Desiring the patriarchal state through military discipline in Cold War prison camps, 1947 and 1973 -- Sex and the new man in socialist revolution: ideologies and practices, circa 1973 -- Gendered erotics in the space of death: from military dictatorship to civilian market-state, circa 1999 -- Conclusion and epilogue: the desire to govern and the governing of desire.
Author: G. Waylen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1137501987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichele Bachelet, Chile's first female president, was elected with an explicit gender agenda in 2006 and then reelected in 2013. This volume focuses on Bachelet's efforts to introduce progressive measures and the constraints that she has faced in a context where both formal and informal political institutions can act as barriers to change.
