Politics In Chile

Lois Hecht Oppenheim is Professor of Political science at the University of Judaism.

• Preface to the Third Edition Part 1: Introduction 1. An Overview of Chilean Politics Part 2: Chile's Experiment in Socialism and the Collapse of Democracy, 1970-1973 2. The Popular Unity's Project: A Nonviolent Transition to Socialism 3. Overview of the Allende Years, 1970-1973: Major Issues and Political Dynamics 4. The System Collapses: Causes of the Military Coup Part 3: Chile Under Military Rule, 1973-1989 5. The Military in Power:Creating a New Chile 6. The Neoliberal Economic Model and Its Social and Political Consequences 7. Political Opposition to Military Rule and the Reawakening of Civil Society Part 4: Continuities and Change in Post-Pinochet Chile: Market Democracy Under the Concertacion 8. Chile as an Economic "Jaguar": An Evaluation of Concertacion Economic Policy 9. The Long Transition Ends: Democracy Consolidated