Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

World Making in the Tropics

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Av Consuelo Cruz, Massachusetts) Cruz, Consuelo (Associate Professor, Tufts University, Cruz Consuelo

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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 This book is based on a wealth of original historical documents and contemporary interviews with prominent political actors and analyses five centuries of political history in these paradigmatic cases of outstanding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.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-08-20
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521120401

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Consuelo Cruz is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. Previously she taught at Columbia University, where she also served for a year as director of the Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies. Cruz received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published in Comparative Politics, World Politics, the Journal of Democracy, Political Science Quarterly, Latin American Research Review, and in edited volumes.

"Cruz has written a magisterial work that truly goes beyond the countries under the microscope to a level of theoretical sophistication that should revolutionize the study of political culture and its influence on determining varying political outcomes. This book should be read and reread by historians, political scientists, Latin Americanists, and most of all, policy makers. Essential." -Choice