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1 online resource (xviii, 349 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy
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Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index. |
| Contents |
Dictatorship, Legality, and Institutional Constraints -- Dictatorship and Unbound Power -- Sovereignty, Self-Binding, and Limits -- Precommitment and Credible Commitment -- Nonmonocratic Dictatorship and Collective Foundations for Ongoing Institutional Limits -- Constitution of the Exception: Defining the Rules of Military Rule -- Initial Unknowns -- 1974-1975: The Separation of Powers -- Defining the Presidency: The Demise of Rotation -- D.L. No. 527: The Estatuto de La Junta de Gobierno -- Defining Legislative Procedures -- Personalization and Authoritarian Institutional Constraints -- Constitution and the Dictatorship: The Supreme Court and the Constitutionality of Decree-Laws -- Status of the Constitution of 1925 -- Supreme Court and Decree-Laws -- Contraloria and the Legality of Administrative Acts -- Civil Law and the Limits of Judicial Review -- Shadowy Boundary between Force and Law: The Judiciary, Repression, and the Cosmetic Limitation of Emergency Powers -- Combating the Enemy in Time of War -- Supreme Court and Military Justice -- Judiciary and the Recurso de Amparo -- Law and the Boundaries of Prudential Self-Limitation -- Constitutionalization without Transition: Prompting the Dual Constitution of 1980 -- The 1980 Constitution and Its Discontents -- Making Sense of the Making of the Dictatorship's Constitution -- Prompting the Decision to Enact a New Constitution -- Permanent Military Rule and the Emergence of "The Transition." |
| Summary |
"It is widely believed that autocratic regimes cannot limit their powers through institutions of their own making. This book presents a surprising challenge to this view. It demonstrates that the Chilean armed forces were constrained by institutions of their own design. Based on extensive documentation of military decision making, much of it long classified and previously unavailable, this book reconstructs the politics of institutions within the recent Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990). |
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It examines the structuring of institutions at the apex of the military Junta, the relationship of military rule with the prior constitution, the intra-military conflicts that led to the promulgation of the 1980 constitution, the logic of institutions contained in the new constitution, and how the constitution constrained the military Junta after it went into force in 1981. This provocative account reveals the standard account of the dictatorship as a personalist regime with power concentrated in Pinochet to be grossly inaccurate."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto, (1915-2006) |
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Constitutional history -- Chile.
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Constitutional history. |
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Chile. |
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Chile -- Politics and government -- 1973-1988.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1973-1988 |
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Civil-military relations -- Chile -- History.
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Civil-military relations. |
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History. |
| Indexed Term |
Historia constitucional Chile. |
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Chile Política y gobierno 1973-1988. |
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Relaciones civil-militares Chile Historia. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barros, Robert, 1957- Constitutionalism and dictatorship. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521792185 052179658X (DLC) 2001037758 (OCoLC)47181911 |
| ISBN |
0511020902 (electronic book) |
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9780511020902 (electronic book) |
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0521792185 (hardback) |
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9780521792189 (hardback) |
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052179658X (paperback) |
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9780521796583 (paperback) |
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9780511606298 (electronic book) |
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051160629X (electronic book) |
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9780511046995 (electronic book) |
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0511046995 (electronic book) |
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0511157509 |
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9780511157509 |
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