Costa Rica and the production process of the FTA: Professional socialization strategies and new state elites

 

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Author: Molina Alfaro, Eugenia
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2017
Description:Through a case study about the main members of the Costa Rican negotiator team of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) among Central America, Dominican Republic and the United States, this article addresses the question about what were the mechanisms and strategies through which they became influential actors of the development policies promoted in the last twenty years. The paper argues about the anticipatory professional socialization as the mechanism for adopting ideas that provided them, as well, the professional promotion inside a new State elite. It shows how the personal promotion strategies of those individuals causes the production of policies and processes that institutionalize certain professional practices, as Adler and Haas denominate, an epistemic community that contribute to the consolidation of the new face of the Costa Rican State.
Country:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/31557
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/anuario/article/view/31557
Keyword:Socialización profesional
élite estatal
comunidades epistémicas
tratado de libre comercio
política
Professional socialization
state elite
epistemic communities
free trade agreement
policies