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Abstract
In Chile, military subordination to civilians has been a difficult, gradual, and unaccomplished process. Using a qualitative approach, this case study analyzes how a head of state—President Ricardo Lagos (2000–2006)—introduced without constitutional prerogatives important changes in military subordination to civilian authorities. Based on political leadership studies and civil–military relations theory, we analyze the constitutional reforms that ended military presence in the Senate, and two policy changes—military acquisitions and human rights. We argue that President Lagos' transformation type of effective leadership made these changes possible.
En Chile, la subordinación militar ante los civiles ha sido un proceso difícil, gradual e inconcluso. Mediante un acercamiento cualitativo, este estudio de caso analiza cómo un jefe de estado‚ el presidente Ricardo Lagos (2000–2006)—introdujo sin las prerrogativas constitucionales cambios en la subordinación militar ante las autoridades civiles. Con base en los estudios de liderazgo político y la teoría de relaciones entre civiles y militares, analizamos las reformas constitucionales que pusieron fin a la presencia militar en el Senado, y dos cambios de política—adquisiciones militares y derechos humanos. Argumentamos que el proceso transformativo del liderazgo eficaz del presidente Lagos hizo posibles estos cambios.
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Latin American Policy (LAP): A Journal of Politics and Governance in a Changing Region, a collaboration of the Policy Studies Organization and the Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Santa Fe Campus, published its first issue in mid-2010. LAP’s primary focus is intended to be in the policy arena, and will focus on any issue or field involving authority and polities (although not necessarily clustered on governments), agency (either governmental or from the civil society, or both), and the pursuit/achievement of specific (or anticipated) outcomes. We invite authors to focus on any crosscutting issue situated in the interface between the policy and political domain concerning or affecting any Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) country or group of countries. This journal will remain open to multidisciplinary approaches dealing with policy issues and the political contexts in which they take place.