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Comparing Michelle Bachelet’s Two Presidencies: Continuity or Change?

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Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bachelet’s Chile

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This final chapter examines Michelle Bachelet’s two presidencies and assesses the extent of continuity and change between them. The analysis is informed by the insights drawn primarily from the gender and politics (particularly gender and executives) and gendered institutionalist literatures that were outlined in chapter 1, and draws some conclusions about the capacity of each administration to introduce gender friendly change and the constraints and opportunities that both have faced.2 Of course, the extent to which it is possible make an assessment of Bachelet’s second administration and a comparison of both administrations is limited because, at the time of writing, Bachelet had been in office for little more than one year of her second four-year term. Therefore, although the policy agenda of the second administration has been established, there is much less certainty about the final outcomes of its reform efforts, and the extent of any eventual policy change.

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Waylen, G. (2016). Comparing Michelle Bachelet’s Two Presidencies: Continuity or Change?. In: Waylen, G. (eds) Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bachelet’s Chile. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137501981_9

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