Chile hacia el 2000

Este libro reúne una parte del epistolario de Domingo Santa María González (1824-1889). Una figura política trascendental del siglo XIX chileno. El volumen ofrece las epístolas conservadas en el Archivo Nacional, en el Fondo Santa María, y corresponde al período que va entre 1846 y 1860.

Escritos por destacados sociólogos y cientistas políticos chilenos y de otros países latinoamericanos, los textos que conforman este volumen analizan los vínculos entre opinión pública y sistema político en las democracias modernas. Basados en investigaciones originales, ofrecen renovadas evidencias empíricas y rigurosas reflexiones, destinadas a enriquecer los debates conceptuales acerca del tema.

"Splendid work on the pre-Popular Front era, particularly the activities of Gustavo Ross Santa María and the election of Aguirre Cerda. Ross managed to improve the economy and reduce Chile's foreign debt through a variety of schemes, including fleecing the foreign bond holders. Relying heavily on primary sources, this is required reading for political and diplomatic historians"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

They have been complex in recent years for Chile, especially if we add corporate corruption and the discrediting of republican politics and institutions to the erosion of the government projects of the Concertación and the New Majority. Therefore, during a year of elections, critical reflection on the representativeness of the Poder Legislativo and, especially, the one hundred and twenty "honorable" representatives that allow or impede changes in our country become urgent. In this detailed and no less ironic analysis, the journalist Nancy Guzmán bares with humor what each deputy does and...