This article explains the influence of the electoral law on decentralization of competition in Central America. To achieve this objective, first there is a description of multilevel competition Guatemala, Honduras, El ...

This paper aims to understand the progress and setbacks they have experienced the supreme audit institution in Costa Rica in terms of institutional strength / weakness, after the reform in 1994. For this purpose the Organic ...

This paper studies the research literature refered to anarchist thought in Costa Rica during the first decades of the twentieth century. Given the short age of the line of research by the authors on this subject, the author ...

This paper describes an analytical model intended to explain and/or predict the possible success or failure of public policies. Given that is more difficult to define the context of public actions, this model proposes that ...

The present article analyzes the political caricature, published on the cover of Semanario Universidad, during the referendum process developed in Costa Rica in 2007. The study exposes what is the role played by the political ...

This article examines the Costarican parliamentary discussion of in vitro fecundation, on its first stage, from the point of view of innovation and leadership. In an interdisciplinary approach which integrates conceptual ...

A territorial analysis of Limón Province is made through a critical perspective of how this region was conceived and built throughout its history. We discuss about some geographical constructions and imaginaries made towards ...

Introduces the recent context (2000-2011) of Central American migration transiting Mexico: flows and border securitization, legal control; detention of inmigrants, and the situation of abuse, violence and identity.The ...

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Under circumstances of substantial turnout reductions, like those in the Costa Rican case in the last decade, the possibility that many more voters cultivate ‘habitual voting’ may constitute a key factor to revert such ...