Abstract

SOTO KIEWIT, Luis Diego. Approach to the Conception of Governability in the Presidential Speeches of José María Figueres Olsen. Rev. Rup. [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.1, pp.1-27. ISSN 2215-2989.

This paper analyses the speeches given by former president of Costa Rica José María Figueres Olsen on May 1st in front of the Legislative Assembly, in order to know the concept of governability proposed in these. The article focuses on the relationship between the discourse of governability and the policy oriented to the transformation of state and public institutions in Costa Rica, while exposing the sense and the way in which the president understands the phenomenon in the national reality.

Keywords : Political Speech; Governability; State; Critical Discourse Analysis; neoliberal restructuring..

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