The 'exceptionalist' collective imaginary, hegemonic battles, and Costa Rica's democratic institutional development from the 1820s to the 1960s

The aim of my thesis is to explore the role of the “exceptionalist” collective imaginary in promoting Costa Rica’s democratization process by applying a novel analytical framework that combines insights from post structural discourse theory, discursive institutionalism and ideational theories. It ad...

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Main Author: Hedayat, Maria
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.634483