Dr. Alfred G. Cuzán

Distinguished University Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities

Government

Elections

Formal Theory (Political Science)

Political Science

American politics

Gubernatorial elections

Presidential elections

Comparative Government or Politics

dictatorships

totalitarianism

Latin America

Cuba

principles of politics

the contract theorists (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau)

Review Peer reviewed

Review of: Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America: The Costa Rican Experience

by Alfred G. Cuzán

Published 03/01/2003

Perspectives on Politics, 1, 1, 204 - 205

The central proposition advanced in this book is that incremental reform along neoliberal lines works. In Costa Rica, a slow-paced program of macroeconomic stabilization, fiscal cutbacks, economic deregulation, tax incentives for exporters, cessation of agricultural subsidies, and selected privatizations yielded “generally positive results” (p. 105). The economy recovered rapidly from the 1980s crisis and poverty rates fell back to pre-crisis levels, while the country's democratic stability was never in danger.

Review Peer reviewed

Review of: Revolution and the Multiclass Coalition in Nicaragua by Everingham

by Alfred Cuzan

Published 09/01/1997

The American Political Science Review, 91, 3, 761 - 761