Coffee and Democracy in Costa Rica
Anthony Winson(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 20. May 1989
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-333-47269-9 (ISBN)
Description
This study of Costa Rica describes how society and politics developed around an expanding, export-oriented coffee oligarchy. The author provides the historical background for an analysis of the political events that led to the demise of this oligarchy's influence in national politics, and the resulting establishment of a successful liberal democracy. The author presents a critical analysis of the developmental model inaugurated in 1948 by the forces led by Jose Figueres Ferrer, a model that has provided Latin America's most enduring non-revolutionary challenge to the dominance of landed elites in these societies. The text is aimed at students in departments of sociology, Latin American studies, and developmental and Third World studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
tables, references, glossary, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-47269-9 (9780333472699)
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Anthony Winson
Coffee and Democracy in Costa Rica
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06/1989
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
Estate economy in Costa Rica - class formation, politics and underdevelopment; economic decline and political crisis; emergence of the interventionist state; the state and the coffee oligarchy - an historical compromise; coffee and the Costa Rican model of development; changing class structure in the coffee sector - 1950-1978; diversification beyond the agro-export model; landlord capitalism development and democracy.