The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile

List of Contributors

Contributors Silvia Borzutzky is teaching professor of political science and international relations at Carnegie Mellon University. She has written extensively on social security and health policies in Chile, as well as on Chilean politics. She is the author of Vital Connections: Politics, Social Security, and Inequality in Chile and coeditor of After Pinochet: The Chilean Road to Capitalism and Democracy (UPF, 2006). She is also the author of more than forty articles dealing with Chilean politics, social security, and health policies, as well as Latin American politics and international relations. Susan Franceschet is associate professor of political science at the University of Calgary and researches and publishes in the area of gender and politics in Latin America. She is the author of Women and Politics in Chile as well as a number of journal articles on women’s movements and gender politics. She is carrying out a research project investigating the role of female legislators and “femocrats” in promoting women’s rights policies in Argentina and Chile. Robert L. Funk is academic director and assistant professor of political science at the Institute for Public Affairs of the University of Chile. His research areas include democratization, left and populist movements in Latin America, and political elites. He has also consulted on Latin American issues for LSE for a variety of government and private-sector institutions. Now based in Chile, Robert Funk is a frequent commentator on radio and television both in Chile and internationally and an occasional columnist for Santiago’s La Tercera and La Segunda newspapers. From 2006 to 2008, he served as president of the Chilean Political Science Association. Mary Rose Kubal is assistant professor of political science at St. Bonaventure University. Her doctoral dissertation examined health and education 224 · Contributors decentralization and citizen participation in Chile. A portion of this project , focusing on efficiency and equity tradeoffs in social-service decentralization , was published in the journal Latin American Politics and Society. Patricio Rodrigo specializes in environmental policies, territorial organization , and public policy. He is adjunct professor in the School of Agronomical Sciences of the University of Chile, executive director of the Corporation Chile Environment, and a legislative advisor to members of the Chilean senate. He has worked as an environmental and territorial consultant for a number of international organizations, including the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Environment Program, and the International Labor Organization. Currently, Patricio Rodrigo is executive secretary of the Council for the Defense of the Patagonia. Kirsten Sehnbruch is senior scholar and lecturer at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses on Latin American development and labor markets. She been a consultant to the Chilean government on a range of issues related to employment policy, unemployment insurance, and the pension system. Sehnbruch ’s research interests focus on labor policies in Latin America, employment and social policies in Chile, and on applications of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach. She the author of The Chilean Labor Market: A Key to Understanding Latin American Labor Markets. Peter M. Siavelis is associate professor of political science and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of The President and Congress in Postauthoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation and of numerous articles and book chapters on Latin American electoral and legislative politics. His current area of research focuses on political recruitment and candidate selection in the Latin America, and he has a forthcoming edited volume (with Scott Morgenstern) titled Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America. Eduardo Silva is professor of political science and a Fellow of the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is author of The State and Capital in Chile and coeditor (with Francisco Durand) Contributors · 225 of Organized Business, Economic Change, and Democracy in Latin America and (with Paul W. Drake) of Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980–1985. In addition to contributions to edited volumes and public affairs pieces, his articles on business-state relations and sustainable development have appeared in a variety of journals. His current research focuses on explaining anti-neoliberal social mobilization in South America and its consequences. Aldo C. Vacs is professor of government at the Department of Government , Skidmore College, where he teaches courses on Latin American politics and relations with...