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Political culture and institutional development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua : world-making in the tropics /
"Democracy's checkered past and uncertain future in the developing world still puzzle and fascinate. In Latin America, attempts to construct resilient democracies have been as pervasive as reversals have been cruel. Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Ã2005 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Democracy's checkered past and uncertain future in the developing world still puzzle and fascinate. In Latin America, attempts to construct resilient democracies have been as pervasive as reversals have been cruel. Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua - based on a wealth of original historical documents and contemporary interviews with prominent political actors - analyzes five centuries of political history in these paradigmatic cases of outstanding democratic success and abysmal failure. It shows that while factors highlighted by standard explanations matter, it is political culture that configures economic development, institutional choices, and political pacts in ways that directly affect both democracy's chances and its quality. But this book argues for a fundamental revision of the concept itself. The book claims that political culture, far from being a static repository of values, is a dynamic combination of rational and normative imperatives that define actors' views of the permissible, shape their sense of realism, structure political struggles, and legitimate the resulting distribution of power."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107321830 1107321832 9780511528088 0511528086 9781107316447 1107316448 1139810235 9781139810234 1107151589 9781107151581 1107317401 9781107317406 1107318289 9781107318281 1299399533 9781299399532 1107315468 9781107315464 9780521120401 0521120403 |