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Presidential Popularity in Central America: Parellels with the United States
Political research quarterly, Vol.50(4), pp.833-849
12/01/1997
Abstract
This article builds on our previous work, which showed that presidential popularity in Costa Rica is responsive to economic conditions. Here the analysis covers, in addition to Costa Rica, four sister republics which only recently have undergone democratization. We find that, as in the United States, presidential popularity in Central America rises and falls with the state of the economy. Also as in the United States, presidential popularity in Central America is cyclical, higher early and late in the presidential term. As new and tenuous as democracy is in most of the region, when it comes to rating presidents, Central Americans appear to use the same criteria as voters in the United States.
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- Title
- Presidential Popularity in Central America: Parellels with the United States
- Publication Details
- Political research quarterly, Vol.50(4), pp.833-849
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Copyright
- © 1997 Sage Publications, Inc.
- Identifiers
- 99380171555606600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Reubin O'D. Askew Department of Government
- Language
- English