Harry L. Simón Salazar is lecturer in communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Harry L. Simón Salazar has written a compelling book about a media-induced change in Chilean politics that marked the beginning of the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In place of a simple narrative about the victory of representative democracy in Chile, Simón Salazar reveals a process of mediated cultural change within a ‘protected democracy’ in which elites from the Pinochet era continued to dominate Chilean politics without fundamentally changing the life of the country. This is a great introduction to the mediatization of politics, with lessons that apply broadly to the role of the media within contemporary politics.

• Part I: Historical ContextChapter 1: Pinochet's Enduring LegacyChapter 2: The Rainbow that Brought Down a DictatorshipPart II: Mediatization as a Theoretical FrameworkChapter 3: A Fictive Self-Representation of Chilean DemocracyChapter 4: A Democratic Transition? NO. A Shift in Political Culture? SÍ.Part III: The Empirical StudyChapter 5: The Production of the 1988 Franja ElectoralChapter 6: The Content Analysis of the 1988 Franja ElectoralPart IV: ConclusionConclusion: 1990 to 2013: The Arc of La Concertación

Harry L. Simón Salazar is lecturer in communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Harry L. Simón Salazar has written a compelling book about a media-induced change in Chilean politics that marked the beginning of the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In place of a simple narrative about the victory of representative democracy in Chile, Simón Salazar reveals a process of mediated cultural change within a ‘protected democracy’ in which elites from the Pinochet era continued to dominate Chilean politics without fundamentally changing the life of the country. This is a great introduction to the mediatization of politics, with lessons that apply broadly to the role of the media within contemporary politics.

• Part I: Historical ContextChapter 1: Pinochet's Enduring LegacyChapter 2: The Rainbow that Brought Down a DictatorshipPart II: Mediatization as a Theoretical FrameworkChapter 3: A Fictive Self-Representation of Chilean DemocracyChapter 4: A Democratic Transition? NO. A Shift in Political Culture? SÍ.Part III: The Empirical StudyChapter 5: The Production of the 1988 Franja ElectoralChapter 6: The Content Analysis of the 1988 Franja ElectoralPart IV: ConclusionConclusion: 1990 to 2013: The Arc of La Concertación

Harry L. Simón Salazar is lecturer in communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Harry L. Simón Salazar has written a compelling book about a media-induced change in Chilean politics that marked the beginning of the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In place of a simple narrative about the victory of representative democracy in Chile, Simón Salazar reveals a process of mediated cultural change within a ‘protected democracy’ in which elites from the Pinochet era continued to dominate Chilean politics without fundamentally changing the life of the country. This is a great introduction to the mediatization of politics, with lessons that apply broadly to the role of the media within contemporary politics.

• Part I: Historical ContextChapter 1: Pinochet's Enduring LegacyChapter 2: The Rainbow that Brought Down a DictatorshipPart II: Mediatization as a Theoretical FrameworkChapter 3: A Fictive Self-Representation of Chilean DemocracyChapter 4: A Democratic Transition? NO. A Shift in Political Culture? SÍ.Part III: The Empirical StudyChapter 5: The Production of the 1988 Franja ElectoralChapter 6: The Content Analysis of the 1988 Franja ElectoralPart IV: ConclusionConclusion: 1990 to 2013: The Arc of La Concertación