Centro de Investigaciones de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarrollo
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Num. 18. Ideología y preferecias de intervención económica estatal entre los diputados latinoamericanos.
Documentos CIDOB América Latina; 18
This is an analysis of the connections that exist between the ideological positions of Latin American members of parliament and their preferences with respect to the degree of economic intervention by the State, especially in the area of welfare. It highlights how the effects of ideology on economic preferences are dependent on national contexts and, at the same time, are significantly conditioned by variables of a socio-economic, democratic-institutional type, related to the party system. Through a comparative approach and by means of the use of multilevel techniques, this study demonstrates that the economic development of countries, the higher quality of their democratic institutions and the presence of left-wing parties in the political system increase the association between ideology and economic preferences. The countries with the greatest degree of association between the two factors are Uruguay, Chile and Brazil.
Wladimir Gramacho and Iván Llamazares are lecturers in the Area of Political Science, College of Law, University of Salamanca.
ISSN: 1697-7688 (print ed.)
ISSN: 1697-8137 (on-line ed.)
26 pp.
Wladimir Gramacho and Iván Llamazares
Date of publication: 01/2007
Issue price: 5 €
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