Consuelo Cruz, Cruz Consuelo

Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

World Making in the Tropics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the reasons behind the many failed attempts to build stable democracies in Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120401
• ISBN-10: 0521120403
• Artikelnr.: 27006820

Autorenporträt

Consuelo Cruz is Assistant 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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theoretical overview
2. Manichean identities and normative scheming: origins
3. Orphans of Empire: constructing national identities
4. Post-colonial paths: rhetorical strategies and frames
5. Costa Rica: possibility mongers
6. Nicaragua: hybrid arbitration
7. Tropical histories: paradise and Hell on Earth
8. Transition: familiar novelties.