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Sala Constitucional y equilibrio de poderes
(2003-10-31)La estabilidad del sistema político costarricense hace que su diseño institucional sea del mayor interés (Sartori, 1994, pp. 91–100); sin embargo, ha existido poca investigación sobre algunas de sus importantes “microfundaciones”, ... -
Una sensibilidad focalizada: opinión pública y política exterior de Costa Rica hacia Nicaragua
(2017)Investigaciones previas han constatado la importancia de la opinión pública sobre los asuntos de política exterior. Este estudio busca identificar la estructura de la opinión costarricense y estimar el efecto de un evento ... -
Should Policy Aim at Having All People on the Same Boat? The Definition, Relevance and Challenges of Universalism in Latin America
(2014)In recent years, attention to universal social policy has intensified in Latin America and other parts of the periphery. Definitions of universal social policy have traditionally varied between a minimalist approach ... -
Sistemas de patriarcado y regímenes de bienestar en América Latina ¿Una cosa lleva a la otra?
(2009)Aunque la desigualdad latinoamericana precede la liberalización económica, ésta claramente la acentuó: las nuevas formas de crecimiento han aumentado la polarización social; las reformas del Estado han reducido sus capacidades ... -
Situación actual de la pesca artesanal en Costa Rica
(2013)Este artículo presenta un panorama de la pesca artesanal en Costa Rica. En primer lugar se consideran los mercados regionales de pesca. Luego se describe la situación de la pesca en Centroamérica y Costa Rica, mostrando ... -
Social Policy in Central America: Stubborn Legacies, Positive yet Limited
(2013)Central America constitutes a fascinating case study of the challenges, opportunities and characteristics of the process of transformation in today’s global economy. Comprised of a politically diverse range of societies, ... -
The Best Laid Schemes ... Gang Aft A-gley: Judicial Reform in Latin America – Evidence from Costa Rica
(2004-08-05)Starting in the 1980s, and accelerating through the 1990s, international financial institutions (IFIs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development agencies funnelled considerable resources into judicial reform ... -
The Divergence in Women’s Economic Empowerment: Class and Gender under the Pink Tide
(2017-12-26)Since 1990, men’s monopoly over economic resources, a key feature of gender inequality, has been irreversibly eroded across Latin America. Women’s access to income of their own has improved in dramatic ways. The most ... -
The Double Challenge of Market and Social Incorporation: Progress and Bottlenecks in Latin America
(2014-04-07)Has the past decade of sustained economic growth and political transformations reversed Latin America's historical failure to secure market and social incorporation? To address this question this article draws on the ... -
The General Election in Costa Rica, February 2010
(2011-03)On 7 February 2010, almost 2 million Costa Ricans (69% of the registered electorate) voted in the country’s general election, the fifteenth consecutive general election to be held since the end of the short but bloody civil ... -
The limits of family and Community Care: Challenges for Public Policy in Nicaragua
(2012-06-22)Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered ... -
The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South: Actors, Ideas and Architectures
(2016)Universal social policies have the power to reduce inequality and create more cohesive societies. How can countries in the South deliver universalism? This book answers this question through a comparative analysis of Costa ... -
The road to universal social protection: how Costa Rica informs theory
(2012-03)How are universal social programs built in countries on the periphery, where resources are more limited and initial inequalities higher than any ever seen in OECD countries? Historically it has been very difficult, and ... -
The role of distributional coalitions in welfare regimes: Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador
(2009-07-05)Do social policies in Latin America promote or discourage distribution? And if they do promote distribution, are coalitions a prerequisite? Drawing from a typology of welfare regimes elaborated for 18 Latin American ... -
Trabajo, familia y cambios en la política pública en América Latina: equidad, maternalismo y corresponsabilidad
(2014-12)Teniendo como telón de fondo el aumento sustantivo de la participación laboral femenina en toda la región latinoamericana, en este artículo se caracterizan las políticas adoptadas para conciliar la vida familiar y laboral ... -
Transferencias condicionadas e igualdad de género: ¿blancos, negros o grises?
(2008)¿En qué medida las transferencias condicionadas (TMC), programas “estrella” de la nueva generación de la política social latinoamericana, inhiben o promueven mayores grados de igualdad de género? Usando un instrumento ... -
Transformación en la prestación de servicios de salud como parte de la reforma sanitaria, un análisis neoinstitucional: el caso de Puerto Rico en el período 1993-2020
(2020)En el año 1993, comenzó la implementación de la reforma del sistema de salud en Puerto Rico, a través de la Ley 72-1993. Esta reforma se inscribe en un contexto en el cual las políticas estaban fuertemente influenciadas ...