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- Title
Military Regimes, Neoliberal Restructuring, and Economic Development: Reassessing the Chilean Case.
- Authors
Biglaiser, Glen
- Abstract
Using a comparative framework, this essay argues against the claim that General Augusto Pinochet's Chile provides a model of economic development for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. I argue that Chile's experience represents an anomaly among military regimes. Key to understanding economic policymaking rests on an understanding of how economic policymakers are chosen. Like all political leaders, the primary goal of military rulers is survival. Military rulers choose policymakers based on their political contribution to the ruler's survival. The evidence presented shows that Chile's choice of economic policy and economic policy makers was not a function of economic efficiency but, like Argentina and Uruguay, was chosen on the basis of political expediency. It was merely by chance political need that Chile's military chose the "correct" economic policies and not through any "true" understanding of the requirements for economic development.
- Subjects
CHILE; MILITARY government; ECONOMIC development; POLITICAL planning
- Publication
Studies in Comparative International Development, 1999, Vol 34, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0039-3606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02687602