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The Boric Government in Chile: Between Refoundation and Reform book cover

1st Edition

The Boric Government in Chile Between Refoundation and Reform

Edited By Carlos Peña, Patricio Silva Copyright 2024
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge
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This book analyses the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile during the presidential elections of December 2021. He brought the radical left into power, after three decades of centre- left and right- wing governments. In order to explain this abrupt political mutation in the country, the book explores a series of fast and deep social and cultural transformations experienced in the country in the last... Read more

 Boric’s Government and Its Transformative Hallmark                       

Carlos Peña and Patricio Silva

 

Part I 

Boric the Politician

 1   Boric and the Generational Left                                                            

Carlos Peña

 

2    Boric and the Legal-Constitutional Path                                              

        Javier Couso

 

3    Boric and the Populist Temptation                                                            

Patricio Navia

 

Part II

Boric and Politics

4    Boric and the Centre-Left: From Vilification to a Tactical Alliance                                                

Patricio Silva

 

5   Boric’s Triumph and Disputes within the Chilean Right                     

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

 

6   Boric and the Dispute for Governability in Chile                                

José Joaquín Brunner              

 

7    Social (De)Mobilisation in Boric’s Government                                 

Camila Jara Ibarra

 

Part III

Boric and Public Policies

 

8    Boric and the Challenges for the Chilean Economy                                        

        Mauricio G. Villena

 

9    Social Policies in Gabriel Boric’s Government                                    

Rossana Castiglioni

 

10  Public Security Challenges in Boric’s Government                             

Claudio Fuentes

 

The Challenges of the Boric Government                                         

Carlos Peña and Patricio Silva

Biography

Carlos Peña is Rector of the Universidad Diego Portales and Professor of Civil Law at the Universidad de Chile. He is the author of several books, among others, El desafío constitucional (The Constitutional Challenge); Pensar el malestar (Modernization and Its Discontent); and Lo que el dinero sí puede comprar (What Money Can Buy). He is co- editor with Patricio Silva of Social Revolt in Chile: Triggering Factors and Possible Outcomes (Routledge, 2022).

Patricio Silva is Full Professor of Modern Latin American History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has authored several books and numerous articles on democratization issues in Latin America in general and in Chile in particular. He is the author of In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile and Public Probity and Corruption in Chile (Routledge, 2019).

‘Since the October 2019 protests, books about Chilean politics have tended to generate more heat than light. This timely volume edited by Carlos Peña and Patricio Silva sets out to change that. Instead of tired clichés about neo-liberalism, the book provides insightful analyses of the generational nature of the movement that ushered Gabriel Boric to the presidency, the scrupulously legalistic nature of his administration, the economic and security challenges it faces, and the frightening prospect that Chile´s first government of the far left could be followed by one of the far right. A first rate volume — highly recommendable’.

Prof. Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

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