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

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Gregory b. Weeks and Silvia Borzutzky Part I. Leadership, Institutions, and Coalitional Crisis 1. What It Takes to Win and What It Takes to Govern: Michelle Bachelet and the Concertaciόn 27 Peter m. Siavelis 2. Parties, Personalities, and the President: The Challenges of the Bachelet Government’s Political Narrative 50 Robert l. Funk 3. The Transition Is Dead, Long Live the Transition: Civil-Military Relations and the Limits of Consensus 67 Gregory b. Weeks Part II. Socioeconomic Policies and the Decline of Consensus 4. Socioeconomic Policies: Taming the Market in a Globalized Economy 87 Silvia Borzutzky 5. Challenging the Consensus: The Politics of Protest and Policy Reform of Chile’s Education System 117 Mary Rose Kubal 6. Unresolved Conflicts within the Consensus: Bachelet’s Inheritance of Labor and Employment Issues 136 Kirsten Sehnbruch 7. Continuity or Change?: Gender Policy in the Bachelet Administration 158 Susan Franceschet 8. Contesting Private Property Rights: The Environment and Indigenous Peoples 181 Eduardo Silva and Patricio Rodrigo 9. Conclusion. Paved with Good Intentions: The Bachelet Administration and the Decline of Consensus 215 Aldo c. Vacs List of Contributors 223 Index 227 ...