Class-based Voting in Paraguay

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to survey whether there is a relationship between social class and choice between political parties in Paraguay and to ascertain if decreasing or increasing significance of class voting has showed. At first, by means of the empirical research, the specific Paraguayan class scheme is established and subsequently particular outputs of class voting are simulated using data from the questionnaire surveys and elementary logit, and multinomial logistic regression methods. The resulting finding is that social class has never significantly affected electoral decisions of Paraguayan voters. This paper also decisively demonstrates a dramatic decrease of class voting significance in Paraguay over the past 20 years. More detailed statistical methods established an apparent tendency of civil servants and employees classes to vote for the dominant ANR party.