The Bachelet Presidency and the End of Chile’s Concertación Era

Fernandez, Adriela; Vera, Marisol

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“…Pinochet presented to Chile a program of policy without politicians, only technocrats'. 73 Chile plays an important role in the global neoliberal imaginary as being a pioneer, 'successful' workshop for Friedmann's economic doctrines. But, as Jorge Nef argues, the macroeconomic growth that has been credited to the neoliberal reforms 'cannot be separated from its dark side: the destruction of democracy, persistent violations of human dignity, induced pauperization, and state terrorism'.…”

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Local embedding of international discourse: Chile and the international and transnational anti-corruption campaign

Gephart

2015

International Relations

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The international and transnational anti-corruption campaign (ITACC) has successfully called global attention to the ‘abuse of delegated power for private gain’. However, several anti-corruption scholars have argued that the currently dominant ITACC is flawed because it ignores the fact that local understandings of corruption vary around the world. Others who have analysed the ITACC have claimed it is capable of effectively covering up these differences, in turn creating misunderstandings about the aims in the fight against corruption. While both arguments have been developed quite separately, this article combines and thereby advances both. It applies constructionist interviews and argumentative discourse analysis (ADA) to explore the local anti-corruption discourse in Chile – a country that is considered a success case in Latin America. The exploration shows that Chile’s anti-corruption activities are highly political and they are deeply related to narratives of the country’s transition to democracy. By relating these narratives back to the ITACC, the article reveals a complex interplay between local (competing) corruption narratives and the ITACC.

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Section: Narrating Corruption and Narrating Chilementioning

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Local embedding of international discourse: Chile and the international and transnational anti-corruption campaign

Gephart

2015

International Relations

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“…Street protests erupted early in her first term, reviving fears of a hypermobilized populous among some of her advisors (Navia 2010). Concertación ’s base constituencies protested policies that favored macroeconomic growth rates over social equity, environmental protection, and indigenous claims on ancestral lands (Fernandez and Vera 2012; Teichman 2011). The protests gathered numbers unseen since the political transition period.…”

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“…The protests gathered numbers unseen since the political transition period. They were organized by constituencies disenfranchised by elite-driven policy making, colloquially called cupulismo , and marked the return of collective action (Fernandez and Vera 2012; Teichman 2011). Table 1 provides a protest timeline.…”

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Protest and Accountability without the Press

Hughes

Mellado

2015

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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We examine political news in Chilean newspapers after elections were reestablished, including a recent period of civic protests of policies linked to the authoritarian past. Data show that similar to journalism in Western democracies, throughout the twenty-one years under study, journalists relied upon official sources, allowed politicians to set the news agenda, and eschewed civil society in favor of representing citizens as voiceless individuals. However, news frames changed during the protest period in unexpected ways given current understandings of the press and civil society. During the protest period, the press framed a greater percentage of coverage as issues and offered contextualization while continuing to privilege official sources, defer agenda setting to politicians, and disregard collective organizations. Based on research elsewhere, issue frames and context may reorient causal attribution for social problems and encourage greater participation. Shortly after the study period, reform topped the political agenda, and disputed policies were overhauled. Connecting content to protests through time sequencing, findings suggest rethinking the relationship between civil society visibility in the press and processes of social accountability. They also provide an example of how legacies of authoritarianism may affect the press under democracy, helping advance theories of press performance beyond experiences in the West.

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“…Lagos (2000), and Michelle Bachelet (2006, adopted the approach of "change with continuity," maintaining the market-oriented economy by keeping it open for trade and investment, relying on private sector competition, and restricting the role of government in economy (Fernandez and Vera 2012;Siavelis 2009;Undurraga 2015).…”

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Chile: A Successful Story in Latin America?

Yi‐chong

Leiva

2021

The Political Economy of Natural Resource Funds

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By the time the center-left coalition finished its two-decade rule in 2010, Chile had become the envy of South America as it made the transition, planned and implemented by the military regime in 1990, progressed AQ1 steadily to a stable democracy. One key contributor to Chile's stable transition was the change of its economy from an "authoritarian liberal exclusive model" to a "democratic liberal inclusive model" (Angell 1993).After the return to democracy in 1990, the government continued many components of the economic development model based on liberalization, privatization, and deregulation, and a tight fiscal discipline, while increased social spending was accompanied by tax increases. The average annual GDP growth of 2.4% during the 16-year Pinochet regime rose to 5.8% on average in 1990-2007; inflation dropped from an average of 27% under the dictatorship to 3% by 2005, and remained at that level; real wages stagnated during the dictatorship but doubled in the following decade; and the unemployment rate had fallen to 5%. In 2010, Chile became a member of OECD, and was considered by the IMF and

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The Bachelet Presidency and the End of Chile’s Concertación Era

Cited by 8 publications

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Local embedding of international discourse: Chile and the international and transnational anti-corruption campaign

Local embedding of international discourse: Chile and the international and transnational anti-corruption campaign

Protest and Accountability without the Press

Chile: A Successful Story in Latin America?

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