Costa Rica and the 1948 Revolution
Rethinking the Social Democratic Paradigm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2764489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lowell Gudmundson (0000-0003-2795-1247, Florida International University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 235-242 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0023879100015880 |
| OpenAlex | W4313016645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Costa Rica's 1948 revolution and its triumphant political expression, the Partido Liberaci6n Nacional, have enjoyed a remarkably favorable press in both popular and academic circles in the United States. Whether extolling it as a model to be followed by its neighbors or simply praising it as a working electoral democracy, academicians and journalists alike have assigned major credit for this phenomenon to Liberaci6n and its pre-1948 core group that developed around both Jose Figueres and the Centro para el Estudio de los Problemas Nacionales under Rodrigo Facio. 1 This assessment dominates the interpretation of the 1948 revolution itself to such an extent that the establishment of electoral democracy and political modernization appear to have been both primary goals and legacies of those who made the revolution, despite important historical and contemporary evidence to the contrary.f Costa Rican leaders themselves artfully fomented this mythology about their past heroics, not as cynically as the nineteenth-century Brazilian elite paraded its parlia
Action (physics) · Content (measure theory) · Democracy · Democratic revolution · Political science · Politics · Social democracy · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · Law · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 1991 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |