What fuels conservative voting? Revisiting Costa Rica’s 2018 elections

Marco Hidalgo Ramírez ()
Additional contact information
Marco Hidalgo Ramírez: Universidad de Costa Rica

No 202402, Working Papers from Universidad de Costa Rica

Abstract: Despite being known as the most stable and oldest democracy in Latin America, Costa Rica had an unprecedented electoral episode in early 2018. In the light of same-sex marriage legal approval, an evangelical conservative party openly against it suddenly took off in popularity during the campaign. For months the country experienced a tense polarizing atmosphere. In this research, I implement an Instrumental Variable econometric approach using district-level data since 1973 to rigorously test whether lower education and poverty fueled conservative support. My findings suggest that historical economic insecurity did cause conservative support against human rights.

Keywords: conservative voting; Costa Rica 2018 elections; economic insecurity; Instrumental Variable econometric approach; district-level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2024-02, Revised 2024-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pol
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://economia.ucr.ac.cr/sites/default/files/202 ... CR%20SDT%2024-02.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fcr:wpaper:202402

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Universidad de Costa Rica Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Juan Manuel Castro ().