New Right in Chile (St Antony's Series) - Hardcover

Pollack, M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333724739 ISBN 13: 9780333724736

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

The 1973 military coup, which overthrew the democratically elected left-wing government of Salvador Allende, gave previously periph-eral authoritarian elements of the right the opportunity to exercise almost unlimited political and economic power. These sectors - principally the economists of the Chicago School of free market economics and the gremialistas, a traditional Catholic movement inspired by the corporatism of such figures as Spainís Franco and Primo de Rivera - remained the dominant political, economic and ideological expression throughout the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90).

This book examines how this right has adapted to functioning as ëloyal oppositioní in the new democratic order, after having exercised power for seventeen years within an authoritarian political system. The central question, therefore, is whether the right is now conforming to the rules of the electoral game or is still harking back to the golden ageof military politics. Since the sector still has the support of around one-third of the electorate, this question is of paramount importance to the future of Chile's still nascent democracy.

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Review:

'...a major contribution to studies of the Right in Latin America.' - Robert E. Biles, Perspectives on Political Science

'Pollack skillfully depicts the complexity, internal tensions, contradictions, and dynamism of various political and social groups whose unifying feature has been a shared, if largely negative agenda, based only on their general hostility to socialism...Pollack's study is an important start toward taking seriously the ideological, organizational, and programmatic diversity within Chile's political Right.' - Brian Loveman, Political Science Quarterly

About the Author:

MARCELO POLLACK has been Research Associate at the Madrid-based Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IRELA) since 1996. Previously, he was Latin America and Africa Editor for Oxford Analytica, a UK-based international consultancy firm. He has specialized in Chilean politics for the last 10 years and has written a number of articles on the subject and has contributed to Idealogues and Ideologies in Latin America; Neo-Liberalism with a Human Face? The Politics of the Chilean Model; and to a special issue of Parliamentary Affairs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333724739
• ISBN 13: 9780333724736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243