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Informationen zum Autor Consuelo Cruz is Associate 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. Klappentext Explores the reasons behind the many failed attempts to build stable democracies in Latin America. Zusammenfassung There have been many attempts to build stable democracies in Latin America! and nearly as many cruel reversals. The reasons are not well understood. Based on original historical documents and contemporary interviews with prominent politicians in democratically stable Costa Rica and in often-violent Nicaragua! this book explores those reasons. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
