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Elites and Mandates in Post-Authoritarian Argentina and Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2006

Jaime Baeza Freer
Jaime Baeza Freer
Affiliation:
Centennial Center Visiting Scholar and University of Essex
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The pacted nature of democratic transition seems to define the divergent path taken by Chilean elites in comparison with their Argentinean counterparts. However, using a Most Similar System Design (MSSD), two new elements enhance opportunities for explaining the different outcomes. First, the content of a mandate that has the ability to co-opt people from outside the privileged class; and second, the capacity of the elite to generate a process of political systematization and economic monetarization that ensures stability with no apparent democratic setbacks.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 181
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© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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