Un trébol de cuatro hojas

Escritos por destacados sociólogos y cientistas políticos chilenos y de otros países latinoamericanos, los textos que conforman este volumen analizan los vínculos entre opinión pública y sistema político en las democracias modernas. Basados en investigaciones originales, ofrecen renovadas evidencias empíricas y rigurosas reflexiones, destinadas a enriquecer los debates conceptuales acerca del tema.

"A portrait of one of the founding members and early influential leaders of the Chilean Socialist Party. In the early 1940s, following an abortive attempt at his party's presidential nomination, Schnake abandoned party politics, serving as Chilean Ambassador to Mexico and France under President Juan Antonio Ríos, and later as Minister of Mining under Gabriel González Videla, before going on to the United Nations and later the Inter-American Development Bank"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"A collection of significant essays analyzing the multifaceted process of decentralization. Contains detailed proposals for the consolidation of local and regional autonomy and finance"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.