Revista de Ciencias Sociales ISSN Impreso: 0482-5276 ISSN electrónico: 2215-2601

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The transformation of male and female representation in the Costa Rican legislative assembly: 1962-2022
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Keywords

Costa Rica
elections
gender equality
political parties
women
Costa Rica
elecciones
igualdad de género
partido político
mujer

How to Cite

Carballo Chaves, P. (2023). The transformation of male and female representation in the Costa Rican legislative assembly: 1962-2022. Revista De Ciencias Sociales, (181), 13–38. https://doi.org/10.15517/rcs.v0i181.56695

Abstract

In Costa Rica there have been significant changes in the order of representation. From a socio-historical perspective, and creating three specific periods (Hegemonic-PLN, Bipartisan, and Multiparty), we can explore the change in representation by gender in the country’s Parliament. The legal-electoral findings in the case of the new Electoral Code emphasize vertical and horizontal parity. For the central period of study —the Multipartidista—, there is a continuity towards the equality of women and men in the Parliament. The study is carried out with a quantitative methodology. Analyzing in detail some data for 2022 we find, among other results, that there´s a majority of man legislators in the provinces of San José, Heredia y Puntarenas; and in Alajuela, Cartago y Limón the majority are women legislators. And being parity with vertical and horizontal alternation a successful tool in the female presence in the 2022 congress.

https://doi.org/10.15517/rcs.v0i181.56695
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