Marketing Democracy Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile

Name: Marketing Democracy Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile
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ISBN: 9780520227682

ISBN-10: 0520227689

ISBN-13: 9780520227682

Edition: 2001

Authors: Julia Paley

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Amid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of poblacioacute;n(shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge poor health care in their community and to denounce military rule. How did their organization respond seven years later when Chile's transition to democracy brought an end to dictatorship but no clear solution to ongoing health problems? Marketing Democracy shows how the exercise of power and the strategies of social movements transformed with the transition from a military to an elected-civilian regime in Chile. The term "marketing democracy" refers first to how contemporary democracies are shaped by transnational market forces, and second to how politicians have…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 273
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction


La Bandera in the Social Imaginary



History of Collective Action



The Founding of the Poblacioacute;n



Military Rule



Transition to Democracy



Ethnography of Democracy



Marketing Democracy



The Paradox of Participation



Legitimation of Knowledge


Epilogue


Appendix. Health Group's Ethnography


Notes


References


Index