Chile’s 1988 plebiscite is a case of opposition strategy operating through a constrained electoral mechanism under authoritarian rule. It is useful for studying coalition discipline, information strategy, institutional guarantees, security-sector restraint, and how a legal opening can become a transition pathway. This profile treats organization, coercion, repression, legitimacy, state response, and outcome as historical variables—not moral shorthand.
Chile’s 1988 plebiscite is a case of opposition strategy operating through a constrained electoral mechanism under authoritarian rule. It is useful for studying coalition discipline, information strategy, institutional guarantees, security-sector restraint, and how a legal opening can become a transition pathway.
Electoral opposition · coalition politics · mass communication
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