You Win Some, You Lose Some: Constitutional Reforms in Chile's Transition to Democracy.
Chile's 1989 constitutional reforms constituted a trade-off: the military gave up protected democracy provisions but acquired greater autonomy. The democratic opposition could accept or reject, but not modify, constitutional changes proposed by the outgoing dictatorship. This study addresses a very...
| Published in: | Latin American Politics & Society Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 163 - 191 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Fall 2007
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