Incio Coronado, José Luis
(2022)
The devil inside: candidates with low democratic commitment in Latin America.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
This dissertation aims to contribute to our knowledge about political actors. First, I focus on politicians’ behavior during presidential campaigns. Taking advantage of public data from Twitter and novel tools from computational social science such as Machine Learning, I find that candidates not only engage in negative campaigning against other opponents but also negative campaigning against institutions with checks and balance functions. Moreover, I show that negative campaigning against checks and balance institutions is a proxy for candidates’ low democratic commitment. In the second chapter of this project, I demonstrate that there are negative consequences for countries’ democracy of electing a president that has signaled their low democratic commitment during the electoral campaign. The results suggest that these types of presidents make democratic backsliding more likely. Finally, in the third chapter, I explore how these candidates develop their low democratic commitment.I argue that candidates develop their political values during their early political socialization process. Likewise, I bring evidence that the presence of subnational authoritarian enclaves in democratic countries supplies candidates with a low democratic commitment to the national arena.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
16 June 2022 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
21 March 2022 |
| Approval Date: |
16 June 2022 |
| Submission Date: |
5 April 2022 |
| Access Restriction: |
2 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 2 years. |
| Number of Pages: |
144 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Political Science |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Democratization, Latin America, Machine Learning |
| Date Deposited: |
16 Jun 2022 16:14 |
| Last Modified: |
16 Jun 2024 05:15 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/42491 |
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