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In the 2018 presidential runoff election in Costa Rica, the Citizen’s Action Party (PAC) was re-elected with 60.6% of the vote, giving the impression of an easy success for this party, and thus the absence of any form of alternation. The hypotheses on the factors favouring alternation set out in the introduction to this book lead us to estimate a rather low degree of alternation (1.5).
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The PUSC has been in crisis for the past 20 years, because of the large-scale mobilization against the privatization of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute, led by a PUSC president in 1998, and because of the imprisonment of two former PUSC presidents in 2002 for corruption.
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Interview conducted with the director of a survey house, San Jose, March 2018.
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See Fig. 14.1 on OPALC’s website.
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Interview with a former vice-minister of the government of Luis Guillermo Solís, April 2021.
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See Fig. 14.2 on line (OPALC’s website).
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Guevara, E. (2023). Costa Rica’s 2018 and 2020 Elections: A Partial Alternation and a Conservative Turn. In: Dabène, O. (eds) Latin America’s Pendular Politics. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26761-1_14
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