Download or read book Costa Rica written by John A Booth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Costa Rica become Central America’s first successful democracy? How does Costa Rican democracy work? How does democracy survive despite regional turmoil, foreign intervention, and economic crisis? Beginning with Costa Rica’s history within the Central American context, John Booth traces democratic development in Costa Rica through its institutions, rules of the political game, parties, elections, and interest groups. After a review of socioeconomic and political forces, the author examines political participation and culture, political economy, and foreign affairs. The book’s overview of Costa Rican politics is accessible and useful for students, scholars, and general readers.
Download or read book Democracy in Costa Rica written by Charles D. Ameringer and published by New York, N.Y. : Praeger ; Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Costa Rica written by Leonard Bird and published by Barrie Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coffee and Democracy in Costa Rica written by Anthony Winson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students of sociology and Latin American studies, this text provides an analysis of the political events that led to the demise of Costa Rica's coffee oligarchy, its influence in national politics, and the resulting establishment of a successful liberal democracy.
Download or read book Demanding Democracy written by Deborah Jane Yashar and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Costa Rica written by Bruce M. Wilson and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one explain Costa Rica's political stability? What features, for example, have allowed the country to respond to its profound economic problems in patterns so different from those prevailing in the region? In addressing these questions, Wilson provides a comprehensive study of Costa Rica's political and economic development from the colonial period to the present, with an emphasis on its contemporary political economy.
Download or read book Democracies in Regions of Crisis written by National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of three years of research, conferences and interviews with politicians, academics, journalists, military officers, economists and ordinary citizens from Israel, Costa Rica and Botswana. These three democratic nations have survived and even thrived in regions of crisis. We hope that this study will contribute to a better understanding of the institutions and practices that constitute successful democratic systems. - p. v.
Download or read book Community Participation in Health written by Lynn M. Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropological study of the failure of community participation in health-care in Costa Rica.
Download or read book The Quality of Democracy written by Guillermo O'Donnell and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Guillermo O’Donnell taught a seminar at the University of Notre Dame on democratic theory. One of the questions explored in this class was whether it is possible to define and determine the “quality” of democracy. Jorge Vargas Cullell, a student in this course, returned to his native country of Costa Rica, formed a small research team, and secured funding for undertaking a “citizen audit” of the quality of democracy in Costa Rica. This pathbreaking volume contains O’Donnell’s qualitative theoretical study of the quality of democracy and Vargas Cullell’s description and analysis of the empirical data he gathered on the quality of democracy in Costa Rica. It also includes twelve short, scholarly reflections on the O’Donnell and Cullell essays. The primary goal of this collection is to present the rationale and methodology for implementing a citizen audit of democracy. This book is an expression of a growing concern among policy experts and academics that the recent emergence of numerous democratic regimes, particularly in Latin America, cannot conceal the sobering fact that the efficacy and impact of these new governments vary widely. These variations, which range from acceptable to dismal, have serious consequences for the people of Latin America, many of whom have received few if any benefits from democratization. Attempts to gauge the quality of particular democracies are therefore not only fascinating intellectual exercises but may also be useful practical guides for improving both old and new democracies. This book will make important strides in addressing the increasing practical and academic concerns about the quality of democracy. It will be required reading for political scientists, policy analysts, and Latin Americanists.
Download or read book The Costa Rica Reader written by Steven Palmer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long characterized as an exceptional country within Latin America, Costa Rica has been hailed as a democratic oasis in a continent scorched by dictatorship and revolution; the ecological mecca of a biosphere laid waste by deforestation and urban blight; and an egalitarian, middle-class society blissfully immune to the violent class and racial conflicts that have haunted the region. Arguing that conceptions of Costa Rica as a happy anomaly downplay its rich heritage and diverse population, The Costa Rica Reader brings together texts and artwork that reveal the complexity of the country’s past and present. It characterizes Costa Rica as a site of alternatives and possibilities that undermine stereotypes about the region’s history and challenge the idea that current dilemmas facing Latin America are inevitable or insoluble. This essential introduction to Costa Rica includes more than fifty texts related to the country’s history, culture, politics, and natural environment. Most of these newspaper accounts, histories, petitions, memoirs, poems, and essays are written by Costa Ricans. Many appear here in English for the first time. The authors are men and women, young and old, scholars, farmers, workers, and activists. The Costa Rica Reader presents a panoply of voices: eloquent working-class raconteurs from San José’s poorest barrios, English-speaking Afro-Antilleans of the Limón province, Nicaraguan immigrants, factory workers, dissident members of the intelligentsia, and indigenous people struggling to preserve their culture. With more than forty images, the collection showcases sculptures, photographs, maps, cartoons, and fliers. From the time before the arrival of the Spanish, through the rise of the coffee plantations and the Civil War of 1948, up to participation in today’s globalized world, Costa Rica’s remarkable history comes alive. The Costa Rica Reader is a necessary resource for scholars, students, and travelers alike.
Download or read book Coffee and Power written by Jeffery M. Paige and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the revolutionary years between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, yet they found a common destination in democracy and free markets. Paige shows that the divergent political histories and the convergent outcome were shaped by one commodity: coffee.
Download or read book Costa Rica written by Leonard Bird and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying for Democracy written by Kevin Casas-Zamora and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers political finance systems and direct state funding in Costa Rica and Uraguay as well as state funding and campaign finance practices in those countries.
Download or read book Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua written by Consuelo Cruz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the reasons behind the many failed attempts to build stable democracies in Latin America.
Download or read book Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica written by Anthony Winson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students of sociology and Latin American studies, this text provides an analysis of the political events that led to the demise of Costa Rica's coffee oligarchy, its influence in national politics, and the resulting establishment of a successful liberal democracy.
Download or read book The Origins of Democracy in Costa Rica in Comparative Perspective written by Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elections and Democracy in Central America written by John A. Booth and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
