LEADER 03333nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910778109303321 005 20230822201612.0 010 $a0-292-79480-0 024 7 $a10.7560/717206 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479634 035 $a(OCoLC)646760631 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245657 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000266775 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217125 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266775 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10304272 035 $a(PQKB)10438347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443190 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2349 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245657 035 $a(DE-B1597)586849 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944700 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794801 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479634 100 $a20070109d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVarieties of liberalism in Central America $enation-states as works in progress /$fForrest D. Colburn and Arturo Cruz S 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 115 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-292-71720-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [111]-115). 327 $aEnigmatic nation-states and conceptual nihilism -- Geography and myth -- Liberalism and democracy -- Unfettered markets -- What went right? -- What went wrong? -- Choices, constraints, idiosyncrasies, and fortune. 330 $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. Liberalismtoday defined as democracy and unfettered marketsmay 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. 606 $aLiberalism$zCentral America 607 $aCentral America$xPolitics and government$y1979- 615 0$aLiberalism 676 $a320.5109728 700 $aColburn$b Forrest D$0126497 701 $aCruz S$b Arturo J$g(Cruz Sequeira)$01548913 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778109303321 996 $aVarieties of liberalism in Central America$93806334 997 $aUNINA