{"id":9717,"date":"2023-03-20T23:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T23:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/nicaragua-and-costa-are-neighboring-countries-in-central-america-that-have-had-very-different-political-trajectories-what-factors-explain-this-dramatic-divergence-in-outcomes\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T23:38:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T23:38:29","slug":"nicaragua-and-costa-are-neighboring-countries-in-central-america-that-have-had-very-different-political-trajectories-what-factors-explain-this-dramatic-divergence-in-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/nicaragua-and-costa-are-neighboring-countries-in-central-america-that-have-had-very-different-political-trajectories-what-factors-explain-this-dramatic-divergence-in-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua and Costa are neighboring countries in Central America that have had very different political trajectories. What factors explain this dramatic divergence in outcomes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicaragua and Costa are neighboring countries in Central America that<\/p>\n

have had very different political trajectories: Nicaragua has been beset by long periods of\n<\/div>\n
authoritarian rule and civil war, while Costa Rica has enjoyed relative peace and stability\n<\/div>\n
and has been a democracy since 1899. What factors explain this dramatic divergence in\n<\/div>\n
outcomes?\n<\/div>\n
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Required Readings:\n<\/div>\n
Marti\u00cc\ufffdnez Franzoni Juliana, and Sa\u00cc\ufffdnchez-Ancochea Diego. 2014. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Filling in the Missing\n<\/div>\n
Link between Universalism and Democracy: The Case of Costa Rica.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Latin American\n<\/div>\n
Politics and Society 56 (4): 98\u00e2\u20ac\u201c118\n<\/div>\n
Pettiford, Lloyd. 1999. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simply a Matter of Luck?: Why Costa Rica Remains a\n<\/div>\n
Democracy.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Democratization 6 (1): 87\u00e2\u20ac\u201c104.\n<\/div>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Authoritarian Executive? Horizontal and Vertical Accountability in Nicaragua.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd\n<\/div>\n
2006. Latin American Politics & Society 48 (2): 141\u00e2\u20ac\u201c69.\n<\/div>\n
McConnell, Shelley A. 2007. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nicaragua’s Turning Point.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Current History 106 (697):\n<\/div>\n
83\u00e2\u20ac\u201c88.\n<\/div>\n
Cupples, J., Glynn, K. 2018. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Introduction: Democracy and Authoritarianism in\n<\/div>\n
Nicaragua\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd in Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes. SpringerBriefs in Latin American\n<\/div>\n
Studies. Springer, Cham, pp.1-10<\/div>\n
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Also needs at least 3 more sources.<\/div>\n
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10 pages minimum, double spaced, with bibliography (does not count as a page)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicaragua and Costa are neighboring countries in Central America that have had very different political trajectories: Nicaragua has been beset by long periods of authoritarian rule and civil war, while Costa Rica has enjoyed relative peace and stability and has been a democracy since 1899. What factors explain this dramatic divergence in outcomes? Required Readings: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[762],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}