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Taxation and Transition: The Politics of the 1990 Chilean Tax Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Delia M. Boylan
Delia M. Boylan*
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Stanford University
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In the “fourth wave” of transitions to democracy sweeping the globe over the past twenty years, the Chilean case stands out as an exception. Although most instances of democratization following military rule have tended to yield rightist governments, Chile is one country in which the ruling coalition that emerged was Center-Left in ideological orientation.

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , 1996 , pp. 7 - 31
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Copyright © 1996 by the University of Texas Press

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The author thanks Richard Bird, Geoffrey Garrett, Terry Karl, Charles McClure, Philippe Schmitter, and Timothy Scully for their helpful comments on various versions of this article as well as the anonymous LARR referees, who provided useful insights for revisions. She would also like to thank the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University for generous financial support and Marco Riveros Keller, without whom much of the research for this project would not have been possible.

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