This section provides all the research projects being carried out at the Center for Research and Policy Studies in the year 2011. You can see the investigation's authors, the descriptors and the period of validy. These ...

This section provides small abstracts and the respective signatures on theses defended and approved in 2011 for the degrees of Bachelor of Political Science, Centralamerican Master in Political Science and Ph.D. in Government ...

En esta sección puede observar el equipo de trabajo para la elaboración del Anuario Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos volumen 2 más una breve descripción sobre este.

This section illustrates the selection criteria used by the Editorial Committee of the Center for Research and Policy Studies to evaluate the articles received in 2011.

As part of the Center for Research and Policy Studies’ accountability, this section describes the activities carried out, coordinated or supported by this institution. Within this section you will see a summary of these ...

Historically geopolitics in the Western hemisphere has been determined by the United States’ security interests. The U.S. national security interests have in turn been defined in response to the U.S. interests as a global ...

This paper discusses a sociopolitical research perspective by analizing the dimensions of the sociopolitical reality. The focus of this analisys is politics and power. Then, it tries to relate this dimensions with three ...

Increasing the homogeneity of a party’s support across the nation -party nationalization- is a key concern to democracies. This paper tests the impact of country and intra-party variables in explaining party nationalization ...

The aim of this essay is to describe and explain the purpose and modus operandi of three different organizations currently fighting to implement radical transparency in politics: Wikileaks, Anonymous and the Pirate Parties. ...

This paper studies legislative dynamics in Costa Rica from 1962 to 2010, in order to observe how changes in the number of parties, internal power distribution in Parliament and parliamentarian experience influence the ...