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082 0 4 _a320.5109728
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aColburn, Forrest D.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aVarieties of Liberalism in Central America :
_bNation-States as Works in Progress /
_cArturo Cruz S., Forrest D. Colburn.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (136 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_tENIGMATIC NATION-STATES AND CONCEPTUAL NIHILISM --
_tGEOGRAPHY AND MYTH --
_tLIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY --
_tUNFETTERED MARKETS --
_tWHAT WENT RIGHT? --
_tWHAT WENT WRONG? --
_tCHOICES, CONSTRAINTS, IDIOSYNCRASIES, AND FORTUNE --
_tPHOTOGRAPHY --
_tNOTE --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tABOUT THE AUTHORS
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWhy do some countries progress while others stagnate? Why does adversity strengthen some countries and weaken others? Indeed, in this era of unprecedented movement of people, goods, and ideas, just what constitutes a nation-state? Forrest Colburn and Arturo Cruz suggest how fundamental these questions are through an exploration of the evolution of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica over the last quarter of a century, a period of intriguing, often confounding, paradoxes in Central America's development. Offering an elegant defense of empiricism, Colburn and Cruz explore the roles of geography and political choice in constructing nations and states. Countries are shown to be unique: there are a daunting number of variables. There is causality, but not the kind that can be revealed in the laboratory or on the blackboard. Liberalism—today defined as democracy and unfettered markets—may be in vogue, but it has no inherent determinants. Democracy and market economies, when welded to the messy realities of individual countries, are compatible with many different outcomes. The world is more pluralistic in both causes and effects than either academic theories or political rhetoric suggest.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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700 1 _aCruz S., Arturo
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/717206
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292794801
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