Increasing the homogeneity of a party’s support across the nation -party nationalization- is a key concern to democracies. This paper tests the impact of country and intra-party variables in explaining party nationalization ...

This article analyzes the governance of security in Central America as part of the Security Strategy released by SICA in 2011. The article features a critical analysis of the current state of Security and Justice in the ...

The aim of this essay is to describe and explain the purpose and modus operandi of three different organizations currently fighting to implement radical transparency in politics: Wikileaks, Anonymous and the Pirate Parties. ...

This paper studies legislative dynamics in Costa Rica from 1962 to 2010, in order to observe how changes in the number of parties, internal power distribution in Parliament and parliamentarian experience influence the ...

A retrospective about some of the battles for women's rights, allows us to reconsider the strategies for the present, leaving a great lesson on the importance of articulating efforts and the creation of alliances which ...

El artículo presenta algunas reflexiones preliminares sobre la relación entre partidos políticos y calidad de la democracia, en el ámbito procedimental de la misma. Inicia con una síntesis del contexto de cambios que se ...

This section provides all the research projects being carried out at the Center for Research and Policy Studies in the year 2011. You can see the investigation's authors, the descriptors and the period of validy. These ...

This paper discusses a sociopolitical research perspective by analizing the dimensions of the sociopolitical reality. The focus of this analisys is politics and power. Then, it tries to relate this dimensions with three ...

Historically geopolitics in the Western hemisphere has been determined by the United States’ security interests. The U.S. national security interests have in turn been defined in response to the U.S. interests as a global ...

In this article I try to show from different dimensions -structural, contractual and legal policy- how has been called security as an exclusive right of law. The actually subsumed to the prevention of crime and punishment ...