Enhancing Democracy Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile [Hardcover]

Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy. Although Chile has gained political stability and grown economically, the ability of social policies to expand democratic governance and participation has proved limited, and in fact such policies have become subordinate to an elitist model of democracy and resulted in a restrictive form of citizen participation.

(Gonzalo Delamazais a Chilean sociologist and Professor at the University of Los Lagos, Chile. He has actively participated in the design and evaluation of many social programs implemented by NGOs in cooperation with the Chilean government. He is the author of several books and articles on public policy and democracy in Chile, includingTan lejos tan cerca: pol?ticas p?blicas y sociedad civil en Chile(2005).
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Acknowledgements
Acronyms

Introduction:The Question of Democracy in a Democratic Society

Chapter 1.Construction of Democracy, Public Policies and Participation of Civil Society
Chapter 2.Chile: Top-Down Modernization and Low Intensity Re-Democratization
Chapter 3.Social Policy Agendas in the Transition to Democracy
Chapter 4.Civil Society, Public Policy Networks and Participatory Initiatives
Chapter 5.From the Civil Society to the State: A New Elite is Born?

Conclusion:Participation and Public Policies in the Chilean Democratic Process

References
Index

Qualities of the book are the thorough, well-documented accounts of these various dimensions of a manacled democratization that ended up in a failed inclusion of Chills&