Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile

by Julia Paley

Amid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of poblacin (shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge poor health care in their community and to denounce military rule. How did their organization respond seven years later when Chile's transition to democracy brought an end to dictatorship but no clear solution to ongoing health problems? Marketing Democracy shows how the exercise of power and the strategies of social movements transformed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520225139
• ISBN13: 9780520225138
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"