Full Description
Like many countries around the world, Chile is undergoing a political moment when the nature of democracy and its political and legal institutions are being challenged. Senior Chilean legal scholar and constitutional historian Pablo Ruiz-Tagle provides an historical analysis of constitutional change and democratic crisis in the present context focused on Chilean constitutionalism. He offers a comparative analysis of the organization and function of government, the structure of rights and the main political agents that participated in each stage of Chilean constitutional history. Chile is a powerful case study of a Latin American country that has gone through several threats to its democracy, but that has once again followed a moderate path to rebuild its constitutional republican tradition. Not only the first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language from the nineteenth-century to the present day, this book is also a powerful defence of democratic values.
Contents
Introduction; Preface to the English translation; Acknowledgements; 1. Republican constitutionalism as an ideal type and tradition and its alternatives; 2. First republic. The independent republic (1810-1830); 3. Second republic. The authoritarian republic (1830-1870); 4. Third republic. The liberal republic (1870-1924); 5. Fourth republic. The democratic republic (1932-1973); 6. The dictatorial imposition of authoritarian constitutionalism (1973-1990); 7. Fifth republic. The neo-liberal republic (1990 to date); 8. The most recent Chilean constitutional moment and its content; 9. Afterword; 10. Annex: agreement for social peace and a new constitution (2019); 11. Bibliography; 12. Index.
