Redemocratization in Chile

Issue Date January 1995
Volume 6
Issue 1
Page Numbers 146-58
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About the Author

Manuel Antonio Garretón, professor of sociology at the University of Chile, is the author of several books about politics, culture, and society, including Fear at the Edge (coedited with Juan E. Corradi and Patricia Weiss Fagen, 1987), The Chilean Political Process (1989), Hacia una nueva era política. Estudio sobre las democratizaciones (1995), and América Latina, un espacio cultural en un mundo globalizado (1999).

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