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Author Huneeus, Carlos, author

Title The Pinochet regime / Carlos Huneeus ; translated by Lake Sagaris
Published Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007
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Description 1 online resource (583 pages) : illustrations
Contents Book Title; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to theEnglish-Language Edition; Preface; Introduction; Notes; 1-The Many Faces of the Pinochet Regime; The Three Identities of the Pinochet Regime; Developmentalist Dictatorships: Franco's Spain and Pinochet's Chile; Varying Approaches to Analyzing the Pinochet Regime; Notes; 2-Installing the Authoritarian Regime; Seizure of Power: Prerevolutionary Conditions; Civilian Tolerance of Violence; A Case of Political Violence: Argentina, 1969-1976; The Rapid Seizure of Power; Implementation of Limited Synchronization
Excising the "Marxist Cancer"The "Caravan of Death"; The Institutionalization andPersonalization of Terror; Voluntary Synchronization; Limited Synchronization in the Universities; Notes; 3-Pinochet's Leadership: The Bases of Power; A Personalist or Strongman Dictatorship?; Pinochet's Professional Background; The Army High Command; The Presidency: Institutional Foundations and Ratification by Plebiscite; Civilian Support; A Sultanistic Resource: The DINA; Notes; 4-The Role of the Military; Military Participation Without Politicization; Worsening Civilian-Military Relations
Growing Military Political Participation Under AllendeMilitary Participation in Government Ministries; Military Participation in Regional and Provincial Governments; The Importance of Military Participation in Government; Military Participation in the University System; Notes; 5-The Legitimation Strategy; The Military's Early Decision to Retain Power; Historical Legitimacy and Chilean "Decadence"; Legal-Constitutional Legitimacy; Drafting the New Constitution; The Constitutional Acts; Constitutional Debates in the Council of State; A Constitution for Pinochet
Legitimacy Through Efficacy: The Neoliberal ModelNotes; 6-The Organization of Political Power; The Problem of Military Institutionalization in Argentina and Uruguay; Traditional Military Regimes and the Influence of Franquist Corporatism; The Junta and the Organization of Legislative Power; Gustavo Leigh's Leadership Aspirations; Presidential Personalization of Power and Institutional Resources; The Council of State; Weakening of the Military and Demands for a New Institutional Order; The Role of Dissidence: Qué Pasa; The Chacarillas Political Shift; Implementation of the Chacarillas Plan
The Fernández Cabinet: The Gremialista-Chicago Boy CoalitionThe Seven "Governments" of the Military Regime; The Cabinet: Proportional Distribution of Posts and Ministerial Instability; The Regime's Ministers; Notes; 7-Jaime Guzmán and the Gremialista Movement; The Gremialista Movement: A Power Group; Jaime Guzmán and the Influence of Franco's Spain; Building the Gremialista Movement; The Four Faces of the Gremialistas: From Adaptation to Innovation; Guzmán and the Question of Human Rights Violations; Guzmán's Relations with the DINA and the Roman Catholic Church
Summary This seminal book was inspired by a series of questions: What explains the endurance of Augusto Pinochet's authoritarian regime in Chile, a country with a lengthy democratic tradition? What mechanisms secured the regime's political stability and broad-based support? What role did neoliberal ideas play in authoritarian discourse and policy? How could two such opposite forces as political coercion and economic freedom coexist? And why the fascination with Pinochet's personality and leadership among elites and lower-income sectors alike? Carlos Huneeus's authoritative work explores and reveals the very nature of the Pinochet regime, examining its structures, its policies, and the complex of factors that made its lengthy duration possible. At the same time, it sheds welcome light on the nature of Chilean democracy today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
SUBJECT Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto fast
Subject Authoritarianism -- Chile -- History -- 20th century
Authoritarianism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Chile -- Politics and government -- 1973-1988. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001578
Subject Chile
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sagaris, Lake, translator
ISBN 9781626371583
162637158X