Transitions to captured democracy: The 1998 Costa Rican election as a critical juncture

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://erlacs.org/articles/10.32992/erlacs.10913" target="_blank" >https://erlacs.org/articles/10.32992/erlacs.10913</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32992/erlacs.10913" target="_blank" >10.32992/erlacs.10913</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Transitions to captured democracy: The 1998 Costa Rican election as a critical juncture
Original language description
While Costa Rica has retained democratic stability, it has transitioned from high-turnout bipartidism to lower participation within a multi-party system. This paper analyzes the trans-formative 1994-1998 legislature, its antecedents, and its consequences. It, therefore, explores a political watershed where electoral participation falls dramatically under a stable party system with no authoritarian transition, labelled here captured democracy. Methodologically, this work performed qualitative coding of media sources to trace how focusing events changed the national political context. Finally, it shows how the simultaneous weakening of the main parties Unidad and Liberación, a bipartisan pact, and several corruption scandals transformed Costa Rican democracy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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