Abstract
This chapter, the social dimension, provides an analysis of Chile’s social situation at the beginning of the office of Bachelet II, including inequality, redistributive policies, social and class struggles, and ideas for reform. Chile features the highest level of inequality of all 34 OECD member states and thus faces the question of how to mitigate social rifts to avoid the widening of the gap between those sections of the population who have access to tools and public life and are able to participate, and those who aren’t.
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Benedikter, R., Siepmann, K. (2015). The Social Dimension: Inequality and Redistributive Policies. Ideas for Reform. In: Benedikter, R., Siepmann, K. (eds) Chile in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17951-3_5
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