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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 108
Book Description
Informe preliminar para un programa de Gobierno de la Democracia Cristiana
Author: Rethinking the Center
Author: Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804765979
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From their beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through the 1980's, political parties in Chile have displayed three discrete ideological tendencies, with two at opposite ends of the political spectrum and at least one in the center. This tripartite distribution made Chile's party system unlike any other in Latin America. How did Chile's distinctive system evolve? This book finds the answer in how three basic social cleavages--religious, urban, and rural--became polarized at three periods of critical juncture. Clerical-anticlerical conflict gave initial definition to the party system in the period 1857-61, and continued to shape the political arena long after specific issues had receded into the background. Then, between 1920 and 1932, class conflict in the urban and mining enclave sectors forced party elites to respond to the demands of leaders of middle-sector and working groups for increased political and social power. This was the second of what the author calls Chile's critical junctures for party formation. The third, occurring in the period 1952-58, saw the spread of working-class politics into the countryside. Crucial here was a shift in the position of the Catholic Church on class conflict, resulting in the emergence of an important Church-inspired center party. The book compares the behavior of the political center during the three historical periods and suggests a conceptual framework for understanding different types of center parties. The author also addresses certain questions raised by the emergence and behavior of center parties: What were the implications of the presence of a center party for the patterns of party competition? Why did the center emerge and re-emerge at each critical point in the evolution of Chile's party system? Can this be understood in terms of an underlying coalitional logic, or are factors such as leadership, political choice, and historical accident more useful explanations? Consistent with this focus on the center is a new account of the key role of the Christian Democrats in the reconstitution of party competition in the late 1980's and early 1990's. The author concludes by offering some observations on the probable shape of party politics--and the role of the political center within it--in tomorrow's Chile.
The Christian Democratic Party in Chile
Author: Giles Wayland-SmithPublisher:
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Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Economists, Politics and the State
Author: Verónica MontecinosPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Economists constitute one of the most powerful professions in Chile. In the past four decades, the economics profession has been transformed from a small and marginal group to one whose membership has greatly expanded its ranks, influence and prestige. Economists were initially successful in gaining control over economic policy-making. More recently, they have risen to top positions throughout the state bureaucracy. This book -- based on interviews with high-ranking government officials -- examines how Chilean economists have broadened their influence in the policy-making process. The concluding chapter deals with the role of economists during and after the country's transition to democratic rule.
Caribbean Quarterly
Author: Cleavages, Critical Junctures, and Party Evolution in Chile
Author: Timothy Richard ScullyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Politics and the Labour Movement in Chile
Author: Alan AngellPublisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Study of political aspects of the labour movement in Chile - comments on the historical traditions of Chilean trade unions (incl. Membership, leadership and structure), labour relations, the labour code and its effects on unions, the role of unions as economic agents, unionisation of rural workers, activities of the various political partys (incl. Socialist, communist, radical and Christian democrats), government policy, nonmanual workers, political doctrines, foreign influence, etc. Bibliography pp. 273 to 277 and references.
Democracy in Mexico
Author: Pablo González CasanovaPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
Author: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and PeacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
List of Books Accessioned and Periodicals Indexed for the Month of ...
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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