Power and alternatives
the availability of international agendas in the Health reforms in Costa Rica (1988-1998)
Keywords:
Costa Rica, Public Health, ReformsAbstract
Are political parties, international financial institutions, and technobureaucratic elites as relevant to explain ongoing state reforms as the literature has argued? This paper examines two health care policies subsequently implemented in Costa Rica between 1988 and 1998. The article indicate that a plausible explanation ofthese policies involves considering the explanatory power of available international agendas during this ten-year periodo The importan ce of combining power and interest with ideas and models behind policy making has already been documented for other policies and countries. This paper brings this debate closer home, to Latin American state reforms, as well as provides empirical insights to understand the complex intertwining among actors and agendas, domestic and international arenas.
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Durán, Fabio (1997): Director División Actuarial, CCSS,. Conversación personal. San José, CostaRica.
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Esping-Andersen, Gosta (1990): The Three Wodds ofWelfare Capitalismo Cambridge: Polity Press y Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Rosenberg, Mark (1983): Las Luchas por el Seguro Social. San José: Editorial San José.
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Salas, Alvaro (1996): Presidente Ejecutivo de la CCSS. Conversación personal. San José, Costa Rica.
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Sáenz, Luis (1996): Coordinador Unidad Técnica de Modernización de la CCSS. Entrevista. San José, Costa Rica.
Sojo, Ana (1998): "Reforma de la salud en Chile." Borrador.
Trejos, Juan Diego y Ludwig Güendell (1994): Reformas Recientes en Sector Salud de Costa Rica. Reformas de Políticas, vol. 18. Santiago de Chile: CEPAL.
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Vargas, Mauricio (1994): Gerente de COOPESAIN. Conversación personal. San José, Costa Rica.
World Bank (1993): Investing in Health. World Development Report. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Westney, Eleanor (1987): Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Orgariizational Patterns to Meiji Japan. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
Wilson, Bruce (1998): Costa Rica: Politics, Economics and Democracy. Boulder, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, page 111.
Wilson, Bruce (1994): "When Social Democrats Choose Neoliberal Economic Policies?" Comparative Politics 26(2): 149-68,2
Zamora, Carlos y Luis Bernardo Saénz (1995): Variaciones en los servicios de salud bajo diferentes modalidades de atención. San José: CCSS.
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Power and alternatives: the availability of international agendas in the Health reforms in Costa Rica (1988-1998). (2018). Revista Uruguaya De Ciencia Política, 12, 123-144. https://rucp.cienciassociales.edu.uy/index.php/rucp/article/view/360
