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After Pinochet: Civilian Policies toward the Military in the 1990s Chilean Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Claudio A. Fuentes
Claudio A. Fuentes*
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Abstract

Comparing the Aylwin and Frei administrations, this article probes the question of why civilian authorities did not always use the legal and political tools they had acquired to respond to the military’s institutional and political demands. Actors’ preferences, leadership style, and strategic decisions influence the way civilian leaders use those tools. Civilian responses have important and sometimes unintended consequences for the stabilization of the civil-military relationship in new democratic regimes.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , Autumn 2000 , pp. 111 - 142
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Copyright © University of Miami 2000

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