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Political Survival
""Political Survival" is that rarest of books in comparative politics: a theoretically innovative work with an empirical, cross-national focus. Apart from its evident technical and conceptual polish, the book is a good read. "Political Survival" raises the ante in comparative studies of public policy by bringing sophisticated, systematic thinking to the analysis of decision-making in the Third World."--Peter McDonough, University of Michigan
Far Away Yet So Close
This paper will shed light on twice Chilean Presidente Carlos Ibáñez's life from the moment he left for exile after his first administration (1927-1931), until his return in 1937. With the notable exceptions, scholars have focused little attention on the period and Ibáñez himself. This research reconstructs Ibáñez's tortuous life during this period using mainly his personal archive and memoirs of politicians of the time, providing an unexpected understanding of Ibáñez himself and this period of Chilean history. What emerged from both Ibáñez's personal letters and those of others is that, even though he had fallen into apparent disgrace and even in spite of himself, Ibáñez continued to be a destabilizing force to the political system.
In the Name of Reason
The major role played by a technocratic elite in Chilean politics was perhaps most controversial when the “Chicago Boys” ran the economic program of Augusto Pinochet’s military regime from 1973 to 1990. But technocrats did not suddenly come upon the scene when Pinochet engineered the coup against Salvador Allende’s government. They had long been important contributors to Chile’s approach to the challenges of economic development. In this book, political scientist and historian Patricio Silva examines their part in the story of twentieth-century Chile. Even before industrialization had begun in Chile, the impact of positivism and the idea of “scientific government” gained favor ...
