¿CONCERTACIÓN NACIONAL EN COSTA RICA? UNA LECTURA CRÍTICA DEL PROCESO DE CONCERTACIÓN NACIONAL EN COSTA RICA, 1998-99

Abstract

The present article analyzes the process of "concertación nacional" developed by the govemment of Costa Rica corresponding to the administration of president Miguel Angel Rodriguez, during the first year of its mandate, 1998-1999, characrerizes its main elements and their political dynamics. The author argues that this process was summoned by the Government like answer to the electoral result that, due to the increase of the abstention, was interpreted like a weak mandare. With the call to rhe "concertación nacional", the government looked for to impel his agenda "hides", oriented towards the rupture of the state monopolies of telecommunications and insurances under an apparently democraty modality. The author indicates that, in spite of its novel form, the "concertación nacional" registers within one long tradition of the dominant political culture to cooptar, to include and to disorient the social organizations who can be a threat for their political-economic strategy of dominion.