New Right in Chile

MARCELO POLLACK has been Research Associate at the Madrid-based Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IRELA) since 1996. Previously, he was Latin America and Africa Editor for Oxford Analytica, a UK-based international consultancy firm. He has specialized in Chilean politics for the last 10 years and has written a number of articles on the subject and has contributed to Idealogues and Ideologies in Latin America; Neo-Liberalism with a Human Face? The Politics of the Chilean Model; and to a special issue of Parliamentary Affairs.

'...a major contribution to studies of the Right in Latin America.' - Robert E. Biles, Perspectives on Political Science 'Pollack skillfully depicts the complexity, internal tensions, contradictions, and dynamism of various political and social groups whose unifying feature has been a shared, if largely negative agenda, based only on their general hostility to socialism...Pollack's study is an important start toward taking seriously the ideological, organizational, and programmatic diversity within Chile's political Right.' - Brian Loveman, Political Science Quarterly

• Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: THE RIGHT IN AUTHORITARANISM Theories of the Right The Origins of the Chilean New Right The Right Unfettered The Right's Institutional and Political Legacy The Re-emergence of Party Politics PART 2: THE RIGHT IN DEMOCRACY New Identities and Faces Party Organization, Finance and Support The Right in Action Politics and Elections Conclusion Appendix 1: Registered Voters (1941-73) Appendix 2: Congressional Elections (1937-97) Appendix 3: Presidential Elections (1925-70) Appendix 4: Christian Democrat Party (1944-73) Appendix 5: Liberals and Conservatives (1925-65) Appendix 6: Support for the Right (1931-93) Bibliography Index