Civil Obedience: Complicity and Complacency in Chile since Pinochet

Chilean society has avoided the topic of civilian complicity since the collapse of General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1990. Civil Obedience (University of Wisconsin Press) argues that today’s Chile has been molded by complicity and complacency in bloody regimes, and he analyzes the ways politicians, intellectuals, neoliberals, and common citizens rationalize what happened during Pinochet’s authoritarian regime.