| Abstract: | This study examines public opinion in Costa Rica and El Salvador regarding regional integration in Central America. Recent
efforts at regional integration as well as the response of the governments of the above countries to those efforts are reviewed.
Public opinion toward regional integration is significantly more positive but less structured in El Salvador than in Costa
Rica. Differences in the international and domestic contexts help to explain the differential responses in these two countries.
Likewise, contextual factors help to account for differences between Central American and European publics in attitudes toward
regional integration.
Charles L. Davis is associate professor of political science at the University of Kentucky. His interests are Latin American
politics and comparative political behavior. Matthew J. Gabel is assistant professor of political science at the University
of Kentucky. His interests are European politics and the politics of regional integration. Kenneth M. Coleman is a former
professor at the University of Kentucky, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of New Mexico. His
interests are Latin American politics and public opinion. |
