Adrián Pignataro

@apignataro9.bsky.social

Professor of Political Science and Statistics, Universidad de Costa Rica Political behavior, public opinion, and comparative politics Opiniones personales

My paper now has an issue number! In this article I test hypotheses about why parties nominate women as vice-presidential candidates in Latin America (1978–2022). If you can't access the paper, feel free to email me. @politicsgenderj.bsky.social

Politics & Gender@politicsgenderj.bsky.social · last mo.

📢New issue of #PAG22 is out!📢 In "The Rise of Women Vice-Presidential Candidates in Latin America", @apignataro9.bsky.social presents and tests novel hypotheses about the strategic inclusion of women on presidential tickets. buff.ly/2Z8y7QH gendersky polisky

Research article titled "The Rise of Women Vice-Presidential Candidates in Latin America" by Adrián Pignataro.

Given the almost universal malaise of liberal democracies, it amazes me that people still think that the way out is institutional reform. Mainstream parties have failed in all systems and far-right parties have succeeded in all systems. More importantly, people are dissatisfied in all systems.

Según el más reciente estudio de Actualidades de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), apenas cuatro de cada 100 costarricenses leen al menos un libro al año. Entre quienes se consideran lectores frecuentes, el promedio es de apenas cinco libros anuales. www.teletica.com/calle-7/solo...

Solo cuatro de cada 100 ticos leen un libro al año | Teletica

La UCR advierte sobre el bajo índice de lectura en el país. Mientras tanto, la mayoría de escuelas ni siquiera cuentan con una biblioteca adecuada para sus estudiantes.

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The Portuguese far right party CH has been growing spectacularly, shattering views of the country as immune to this phenomenon. This has prompted a discussion about where their votes come from. Some thoughts on this, prompted by newly released survey data:

Plot with the evolution of vote share for CH: 
1.3% to 7.28 % to 18.06% to 22.08%

‼️ Impact Factors for 2024 were recently released and JPLA has got a score of 2.1. This is a notable increase on last year’s score and in political science ranking: we went up to category 92/322 from 126/318 last year 👏 @giga-hamburg.de

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