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The Chilean Presidency in a Developmental Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jorge Tapia-Videla
Jorge Tapia-Videla*
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Department of Political Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
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In contrast to other countries in Latin America, Chile emerged from the chaotic postindependence period with a strong state apparatus. Fashioned by the leadership of Diego Portales and institutionalized in the Constitution of 1833, the Chilean state became (and remains) the central focus for national development. Portales was able to marry the existing social and economic order, which was sharply hierarchical, to the institutional structures of a corporate state. In doing so, he shaped political conflict throughout Chilean history into a series of struggles for inclusion in the coalition in control of the state apparatus at any given time. Problems of violence and instability can be seen as the the natural by-products of these multiple attempts to define and redefine both the legitimate scope and orientation of the state and the composition of the dominant groups exercising power.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , November 1977 , pp. 451 - 481
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Copyright © University of Miami 1977

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