CHILE'S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TRANSITION: 1970-1990*

The author examines the origins and the evolution of the economic and political transformations in Chile over the last twenty years, as relates to three central issues: i) the impact that the interventionist economic policies of the governments over the preceding decades could have had on the breakdown of democracy in Chile during the 70s; ii) the economic reforms brought about by the military government in light of the existing tension between its authoritarian nature and the liberal spirit of its policies; iii) the existing relationship between a market economy and the subsequent transition from a hard-line regime to a democratic government