scholarly journals The Via Ascendens Method and its Significance for Ecclesiological Studies. A Latin American Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Case

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

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.

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