Reviews
For those of us who are specialist on Chile, the careful and comprehensive sector-by-sector analyses provides in this volume are gems, unique both as a unified narrative of Bachelet's election and initial performance and in the expertise each author brings to her or his chapter. The use of consensus and conflict as analytical anchors from which to view postauthoritarian Chile is both innovative coherent.
--Latin American Politics and Society
"The various chapters of the book present well-founded criticisms of democratic government in Chile; the themes chosen by the editors, and the overall high quality of the chapters make this an important contribution to our understanding of the nature of democracy in Chile."
--The Journal of Latin American Studies
"The message of this excellent volume is not that blaming old structures, condemning the legacies of dictatorship, or finding the cause of all evils in the unfortunate ups and downs of the global marketplace should satisfy us. Instead, the authors show that we need to consider past and present factors and link those to the Chilean political trajectory to make sense of current inadequacies."
--H-Net Reviews