| | Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL |
 | | Costa Rica 1998-1999: "Each canton (the administrative subdivision of a province) has a municipal council, made up of at least five aldermen, who are elected at general elections by local residents to four-year terms. |
| | Yashar 1995: "Costa Rica is the only country in Central and South America that has sustained a stable liberal democracy and a competitive party system in the post-World War II period. |
| | McDonald 1989: "Throughout most of the nineteenth century, Costa Rican politics was dominated by a coffee-planter elite...During the rule of the coffee oligarchy, the liberal, secular consensus among the elite and the small size of the eligible literate electorate (10 percent of adults) made political parties unnecessary. |
| sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/costarica/general.html (616 words) |
