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Political culture and institutional development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua : = world-making in the tropics /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Political culture and institutional development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua :/ Consuelo Cruz.
Reminder of title:	world-making in the tropics /
remainder title:	Political Culture & Institutional Development in Costa Rica & Nicaragua
Author:	Cruz, Consuelo,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Political culture - History. - Costa Rica -
Subject:	Costa Rica - Politics and government. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528088
ISBN:	9780511528088 (ebook)

Political culture and institutional development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua : = world-making in the tropics /
Cruz, Consuelo,

Political culture and institutional development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua :world-making in the tropics /Political Culture & Institutional Development in Costa Rica & NicaraguaConsuelo Cruz. - 1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Theoretical overview -- Manichean identities and normative scheming -- Orphans of empire -- Post-colonial paths -- Costa Rica -- Nicaragua -- Tropical histories -- Transition.

Democracy's checkered past and uncertain future in the developing world still puzzles and fascinates. In Latin America, attempts to construct resilient democracies have been as pervasive as reversals have been cruel. This book is based on a wealth of original historical documents and contemporary interviews with prominent political actors and analyses five centuries of political history in these paradigmatic cases of outstanding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 it also claims that political culture 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.

ISBN: 9780511528088 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Political culture
--History.--Costa RicaSubjects--Geographical Terms:

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Costa Rica
--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: JL1456 / .C78 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 306.2/097285

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