Elías Chavarría-Mora
Biographic Data
| ID | 316739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elías Chavarría-Mora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elías |
| FAMILY NAME | Chavarría-Mora |
| SIGNATURE | CHAVARRÍA-MORA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6424-3915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment
What are the data protection policies in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region? The developments over the last two decades on massive data collection, as well as the developments in computational power and data science methods appropriate for extracting insights from digital trace databases, have led to increased importance on the protection of the data of citizens, particularly sensitive data. In this exploratory study, I adopt an ind…
How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators
How do legislators, many of whom hold policy positions that are not consistently conservative or progressive, position themselves on the left–right ideological scale? Analyzing data from the Parliamentary Elites in Latin America (PELA) survey, this paper leverages combinations of moral and economic policy positions to determine the weight—germaneness—of each policy on that scale. Using bi‐ and multivariate models on a database of about 5000 legis…
Shifting Positions
This article analyzes how niche parties may utilize a strategy of policy shifting to garner additional voters. It leverages a unique opportunity in which a Costa Rican political party released two different versions of its party manifesto at different moments during a single election cycle. This rare opportunity uncovers how the party shifted from having a hard conservative stance on social issues, such as abortion, to moderating its stance and c…
Democracia, apoyo ciudadano y nuevas generaciones frente al retroceso democrático en Centroamérica
Ante el bicentenario de la independencia, este artículo examina cuál ha sido el desarrollo de los regímenes políticos centroamericanos posterior a las transiciones de la década de los ochenta. Primero, se observa que todos los países, menos Costa Rica, atraviesan procesos de erosión gradual en diversas dimensiones conceptuales de democracia. Segundo, el apoyo ciudadano al sistema político y a la democracia ha disminuido en todos los países. Final…
(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment
What are the data protection policies in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region? The developments over the last two decades on massive data collection, as well as the developments in computational power and data science methods appropriate for extracting insights from digital trace databases, have led to increased importance on the protection of the data of citizens, particularly sensitive data. In this exploratory study, I adopt an ind…
Democracia, apoyo ciudadano y nuevas generaciones frente al retroceso democrático en Centroamérica
Ante el bicentenario de la independencia, este artículo examina cuál ha sido el desarrollo de los regímenes políticos centroamericanos posterior a las transiciones de la década de los ochenta. Primero, se observa que todos los países, menos Costa Rica, atraviesan procesos de erosión gradual en diversas dimensiones conceptuales de democracia. Segundo, el apoyo ciudadano al sistema político y a la democracia ha disminuido en todos los países. Final…
Shifting Positions
This article analyzes how niche parties may utilize a strategy of policy shifting to garner additional voters. It leverages a unique opportunity in which a Costa Rican political party released two different versions of its party manifesto at different moments during a single election cycle. This rare opportunity uncovers how the party shifted from having a hard conservative stance on social issues, such as abortion, to moderating its stance and c…
How germane are moral and economic policies to ideology? Evidence from Latin American legislators
How do legislators, many of whom hold policy positions that are not consistently conservative or progressive, position themselves on the left–right ideological scale? Analyzing data from the Parliamentary Elites in Latin America (PELA) survey, this paper leverages combinations of moral and economic policy positions to determine the weight—germaneness—of each policy on that scale. Using bi‐ and multivariate models on a database of about 5000 legis…
(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment
What are the data protection policies in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region? The developments over the last two decades on massive data collection, as well as the developments in computational power and data science methods appropriate for extracting insights from digital trace databases, have led to increased importance on the protection of the data of citizens, particularly sensitive data. In this exploratory study, I adopt an ind…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Latin Americans (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Caribbean region (1 work) · Data Protection Act 1998 (1 work)