Costa Rica

Elecciones en Costa Rica

October 20, 2016

Falta menos de una semana para que se efectúen las elecciones presidenciales y legislativas, y resulta imposible saber, con un adecuado margen de seguridad, que sucederá en ellas. Es muy factible una segunda vuelta, cuyos posibles participantes no se vislumbran a ciencia cierta. Pero aun más llamativo e importante que la notoria incertidumbre y volatilidad que han caracterizado el cierre de la campaña, son los posibles cambios que esta elección podría representar en el panorama político del país.

Elecciones 2014 - Costa Rica

October 20, 2016

El estudio de los sistemas de partidos y de los partidos políticos se ha tornado uno de los temas más activos dentro del campo de la política comparada. Sin embargo, el estudio empírico orientado a los partidos como organizaciones, todavía representa una de las grandes lagunas en este campo. Las grandes obras de Kirchheimer, Duverger y Sartori intentaron crear un marco de investigación sobre la realidad de los partidos, siguiendo el ejemplo de otros autores de inicio del siglo XX, como Ostrogorski, Michels, e inclusive Weber.

Las elecciones en Costa Rica, fulgor de una sociedad en transición

October 20, 2016

Este domingo 2 de febrero, los habitantes costarricenses escogerán a su nuevo presidente y legisladores, cargos políticos que serán ejercidos durante los próximos cuatro años. En estos comicios, los costarricenses cuentan con catorce opciones posibles para elegir tanto a su presidente como a los 57 diputados.

The End of a Political Era: 2014 Costa Rican Elections

October 19, 2016

2014 national elections in Costa Rica represents the end of the political era inaugurated in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The country has had a reputation of being an old and stable democracy in Latin America. Three main factors in the last decade have transformed the path party system has followed leading the political system into a paradoxical situation. First, individuals’ attachments to parties are weaker and have been replaced over time by careful scrutiny of the candidates and their proposals.

All They Wanted? Presidents, Political Support, and Agency Design in Costa Rica

October 19, 2016

Presidents want public institutions that give them ample control of bureaucracy. Conversely, members of Congress purposefully choose to place new agencies outside presidents’ control as a way of shielding those agencies from presidential influence. These claims are two well-known assumptions in the literature on agency design.

Powerless Supermajorities: Filibustering in the Costa Rican Legislature, 2002-2012

October 11, 2016

In January 2008, Costa Rican voters narrowly approved a free trade agreement with the United States via referendum.1 Three months later, legislative supporters of the agreement, representing a two-thirds majority of the country’s Legislative Assembly, brought to the floor a wheelbarrow containing more than 5,000 amendments, spanning 52,000 pages, made to the first 3 of 13 reforms the country needed to implement to be allowed into the agreement (see photo).

Costa Rica Scrambles for Solution to the Cuban Migrant Crisis

April 26, 2016

Costa Rica has suspended participation in the Central American Integration System (SICA) in response to the unwillingness of fellow Central American countries—specifically, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Belize—to work together to find a solution to the Cuban migrant crisis in Costa Rica.1 Upwards of 6,000 Cuban nationals intending to travel through Central America to the United States have been stranded in Costa Rica since November, when Nicaragua refused them entry.2

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