Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870S1950s,Used

Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870S1950s,Used

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This book examines the origins of democracy and authoritarianism using a novel coalitional approach to examine two questions: What are the conditions under which actors found democracy? What are the conditions conducive to its endurance? The book explores these questions by analyzing the cases of Costa Rica and Guatemala. Costa Rica is the longeststanding and arguably the most stable democracy in Latin America, while Guatemala has among the longest and most brutal records of authoritarian rule in Latin AmericaThe authors fresh reinterpretation of these two cases demonstrates that prior to the 1950s, the two countries followed broadly similar patterns of political change and development, including seven decades of Liberal authoritarian rule beginning in the 1870s, just under a decade of democratic reforms in the 1940s, and brief but consequential counterreform movements that overthrew the democratic regimes at midtwentieth century. Why did Costa Ri

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