Political Competition and Electoral Fraud: A Latin American Case Study

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iván Molina ◽  
Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Electoral Fraud ◽  
Nature Frequency ◽  
The Republic ◽  
American Case

Legal petitions to nullify electoral results comprise a rich source for studying electoral fraud. During a fifty-year period in Costa Rica, parties submitted 120 petitions to Congress, containing more than 1,200 charges of fraud. The petitions reveal that between 1901 and 1938, more than half of such accusations took place in the country's peripheral provinces, where roughly 20 percent of voters lived. They also show that institutional changes helped to shape the nature, frequency, and magnitude of fraud. By the 1940s, the polarization of political competition was accompanied by a geographical redistribution of fraud to the central provinces of the republic, where most of the electorate resided.

Political Development: A General Theory and a Latin American Case Study.

Social Forces ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 365
Author(s):  
Sakari Sariola ◽  
Helio Jaguaribe ◽  
James Petras ◽  
Hugo Zemelman Merino ◽  
Thomas Flory
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Development ◽  
American Case

Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for Latin American Dairy Production: A Costa Rica case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 127556
Author(s):  
Colm Duffy ◽  
Titis Apdini ◽  
David Styles ◽  
James Gibbons ◽  
Felipe Peguero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Abatement Cost ◽  
Marginal Abatement Cost ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
Cost Curves

scholarly journals Overcoming the Limits of Legal Opportunity Structures: LGBT Rights’ Divergent Paths in Costa Rica and Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce M. Wilson ◽  
Camila Gianella-Malca
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Judicial Politics ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
The Right ◽  
Latin American Countries

ABSTRACTCosta Rica and Colombia, two of the earliest Latin American countries to protect many LGBT rights, attempted to amplify those rights and litigate same-sex marriage (SSM) in mid-2000s; however, these attempts sparked a major anti-LGBT backlash by religious and conservative organizations. Yet a decade later, Colombia legalized SSM while Costa Rica still lacks the right to SSM. Using a most-similar systems comparative case study, this study engages the judicial politics literature to explain this divergent outcome. It details how courts, while staying receptive to many individual LGBT rights claims, deferred SSM legalization to popularly elected branches. In spite of the lack of legislative success in both countries, in Colombia a new litigation strategy harnessed that deference to craft a litigated route to legalized SSM. In Costa Rica, the courts’ lack of conditions or deadlines has left SSM foundering in the congress.

scholarly journals Los estudios culturales y la construcción social del patrimonio cultural

REVISTARQUIS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Elena Malavassi Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Authors ◽  
Estudios Culturales

ResumenEl presente artículo forma parte una investigación más amplia, cuyo tema es la construcción social del patrimonio urbano y arquitectónico en la ciudad de San José, Costa Rica. El proyecto tiene por objetivo analizar la forma en que se ha construido el concepto de patrimonio en Costa Rica, específicamente en la ciudad de San José, su capital. En este texto se realiza una revisión de los postulados de los principales autores de la corriente de los estudios culturales, para definir un esquema de análisis aplicable al caso de estudio. El artículo se estructura en cuatro apartados: inicia con la obra de los pioneros de este tipo de estudios en Inglaterra, luego se analiza su repercusión en otras latitudes, por ejemplo, el desarrollo de los estudios poscoloniales en lugares como la India, para luego pasar a los trabajos de autores latinoamericanos, y finalmente hacer referencia a su impacto en el desarrollo de los estudios culturales en Costa Rica.AbstractThis article is part of a wider investigation; the theme is the social construction of urban and architectural heritage in San Jose City, Costa Rica. The project aims to analyze how the concept of heritage has been built in Costa Rica, specifically in San Jose City, the capital. In this paper is a review of the postulates of the principal authors of the cultural studies to define a scheme applicable to the case study analysis. The article is divided into four sections: begins with the work of the pioneers of this type of study in England, then its impact is analyzed elsewhere, for example, the development of postcolonial studies in India , the work of Latin American authors , and finally make reference to their impact on the development of cultural studies in Costa Rica.

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