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ArticleInformation and values in popular protests: Costa Rica in 2000

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Frajman, Eduardo.

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Information and values in popular protests: Costa Rica in 2000.

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Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28:1, Jan. 2009, p. 44-62, bibl. (ISSN 0261-3050)

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Informative effort to explain the eruption of sustained mass protests in 2000 when a surprised government backed down on its proposed privatization of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). The explanation stresses communication theory and the importance for scholars (and political actors) to consider the role of symbolic and emotion-laden issues.

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Bull. Lat. Am. Res.,

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sqg3000

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67

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Charles D. Brocket

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https://lccn.loc.gov/bi2011003386

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