Research Catalog

Title

The Bachelet government : conflict and consensus in post-Pinochet Chile / edited by Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Borzutzky, Silvia.
• Weeks, Gregory Bart

Description

240 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

The central questions in this text are why labor issues have become very prominent under the Bachelet administration, and what has the administration done to solve them. -- From publisher description.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Bachelet, Michelle, 1951-
• Chile > Politics and government > 1988-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Leadership, institutions, and coalitional crisis -- 1. What it takes to win and what it takes to govern: Michelle Bachelet and the Concertacion -- 2. Parties, personalities, and the President: the challenges of the Bachelet government's political narrative -- 3. The transition is dead, long live the transition: civil-military relations and the limits of consensus -- Part II. Socioeconomic policies and the decline of consensus -- 4. Socioeconomic policies: taming the market in a globalized economy -- 5. Challenging the consensus: the politics of protest and policy reform of Chile's education system -- 6. Unresolved conflicts within the consensus: Bachelet's inheritance of labor and employment issues -- 7. Continuity or change?: Gender policy in the Bachelet administration -- 8. Contesting private property rights: the environment and indgenous peoples -- 9. Conclusion. Paved with good intentions: the Bachelet administration and the decline of consensus.

ISBN

• 9780813034751 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0813034752 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010004733

OCLC

437299348

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library