The New Right in Chile, 1973-97 (St. Antony's Series)

By Marcelo Pollack

The 1973 military coup, which overthrew the democratically elected left-wing government of Salvador Allende, gave previously peripheral 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 Spain's Franco and Prima 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 loyal opposition in the new democratic order, after having exercised power for seventeen years within an authoritarian political system.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312222785
• ISBN13: 9780312222789
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.5"