Laura García-Montoya
Biographic Data
| ID | 368183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura García-Montoya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | García-Montoya |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA-MONTOYA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5099-3843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When Reformers Become Spoilers
In response to growing policy challenges, such as postconflict transitions and climate change, exceeding the scope of existing institutions, governments often enact extraordinary reforms—that is, nonincremental institutional innovations regulating state action through fast-tracking procedures, expanded mandates, and normative recalibration in previously unregulated domains. How do governments resolve policy conflicts when extraordinary reform col…
Factionalized Mobilization
Entering the Political Arena in Exclusionary Settings
Under what conditions can the Left become electorally competitive in exclusionary contexts where actors championing redistribution face barriers to entry? We argue that leftist parties can significantly increase electoral support during inclusionary institutional openings, such as peace processes, when previously excluded grassroots actors find new spaces to mobilize for redistribution. By engaging in hinge institutions–non-binding, nationwide pl…
From Economic to Political Power
The shared crisis brought on by COVID-19 offers an opportunity to study how economic elites attempt to shape policy responses. In this article, we inquire about the conditions under which economic elites shaped containment and business support measures in Latin America. We argue that wealthier and better-organised elites are more likely to shape policies because they have increased access to policymakers. To test this, we combine regression analy…
Colombia 2022
El artÃculo explica el cambio histÃ3rico que ocurriÃ3 en Colombia en 2022, donde por primera vez en la historia un presidente de izquierda fue elegido. La primera secciÃ3n describe los patrones electorales y las razones por las que Gustavo Petro ganÃ3, enfocándose en tres: el despliegue organizativo de la coaliciÃ3n, el cambio en algunos ejes centrales de la discusiÃ3n pÃoblica (de la guerra a la redistribuciÃ3n), y la coyuntura de crisis que tra…
Critical Event Analysis in Case Study Research
This article develops a framework for the causal analysis of critical events in case study research. A critical event is defined as a contingent event that is causally important for an outcome in a specific case. Using set-theoretic analysis, this article offers definitions and measurement tools for the study of contingency and causal importance in case study research. One set of tools consists of guidelines for using theoretical expectations to …
Nuevas perspectivas sobre desigualdad y política social en América Latina
Es ampliamente conocido que América Latina es la región más desigual del mundo (Ábramo, 2019; Lustig, 2020; Sánchez-Ancochea, 2020). En la actualidad, el 10% de la población más rica de la región concentra el 71% de la riqueza, mientras que aproximadamente un tercio de la población vive por debajo del umbral de la pobreza (CEPAL, 2020). La pandemia del COVID-19 no sólo profundizó la desigualdad, sino que dejó en evidencia las enormes diferencias …
Violence and Voting in the United States
How do citizens change their voting decisions after their communities experience catastrophic violent events? The literature on the behavioral effects of violence, on the one hand, and on political behavior, on the other, suggest different answers to this question. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we investigate the influence of indiscriminate, rampage-style school shootings on both voter turnout levels and the relative electoral suppo…
Violence and Voting in the United States
How do citizens change their voting decisions after their communities experience catastrophic violent events? The literature on the behavioral effects of violence, on the one hand, and on political behavior, on the other, suggest different answers to this question. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we investigate the influence of indiscriminate, rampage-style school shootings on both voter turnout levels and the relative electoral suppo…
Critical Event Analysis in Case Study Research
This article develops a framework for the causal analysis of critical events in case study research. A critical event is defined as a contingent event that is causally important for an outcome in a specific case. Using set-theoretic analysis, this article offers definitions and measurement tools for the study of contingency and causal importance in case study research. One set of tools consists of guidelines for using theoretical expectations to …
Colombia 2022
El artÃculo explica el cambio histÃ3rico que ocurriÃ3 en Colombia en 2022, donde por primera vez en la historia un presidente de izquierda fue elegido. La primera secciÃ3n describe los patrones electorales y las razones por las que Gustavo Petro ganÃ3, enfocándose en tres: el despliegue organizativo de la coaliciÃ3n, el cambio en algunos ejes centrales de la discusiÃ3n pÃoblica (de la guerra a la redistribuciÃ3n), y la coyuntura de crisis que tra…
From Economic to Political Power
The shared crisis brought on by COVID-19 offers an opportunity to study how economic elites attempt to shape policy responses. In this article, we inquire about the conditions under which economic elites shaped containment and business support measures in Latin America. We argue that wealthier and better-organised elites are more likely to shape policies because they have increased access to policymakers. To test this, we combine regression analy…
Nuevas perspectivas sobre desigualdad y política social en América Latina
Es ampliamente conocido que América Latina es la región más desigual del mundo (Ábramo, 2019; Lustig, 2020; Sánchez-Ancochea, 2020). En la actualidad, el 10% de la población más rica de la región concentra el 71% de la riqueza, mientras que aproximadamente un tercio de la población vive por debajo del umbral de la pobreza (CEPAL, 2020). La pandemia del COVID-19 no sólo profundizó la desigualdad, sino que dejó en evidencia las enormes diferencias …
Violence and Voting in the United States
How do citizens change their voting decisions after their communities experience catastrophic violent events? The literature on the behavioral effects of violence, on the one hand, and on political behavior, on the other, suggest different answers to this question. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we investigate the influence of indiscriminate, rampage-style school shootings on both voter turnout levels and the relative electoral suppo…
From Economic to Political Power
The shared crisis brought on by COVID-19 offers an opportunity to study how economic elites attempt to shape policy responses. In this article, we inquire about the conditions under which economic elites shaped containment and business support measures in Latin America. We argue that wealthier and better-organised elites are more likely to shape policies because they have increased access to policymakers. To test this, we combine regression analy…
Colombia 2022
El artÃculo explica el cambio histÃ3rico que ocurriÃ3 en Colombia en 2022, donde por primera vez en la historia un presidente de izquierda fue elegido. La primera secciÃ3n describe los patrones electorales y las razones por las que Gustavo Petro ganÃ3, enfocándose en tres: el despliegue organizativo de la coaliciÃ3n, el cambio en algunos ejes centrales de la discusiÃ3n pÃoblica (de la guerra a la redistribuciÃ3n), y la coyuntura de crisis que tra…
Critical Event Analysis in Case Study Research
This article develops a framework for the causal analysis of critical events in case study research. A critical event is defined as a contingent event that is causally important for an outcome in a specific case. Using set-theoretic analysis, this article offers definitions and measurement tools for the study of contingency and causal importance in case study research. One set of tools consists of guidelines for using theoretical expectations to …
Factionalized Mobilization
Entering the Political Arena in Exclusionary Settings
Under what conditions can the Left become electorally competitive in exclusionary contexts where actors championing redistribution face barriers to entry? We argue that leftist parties can significantly increase electoral support during inclusionary institutional openings, such as peace processes, when previously excluded grassroots actors find new spaces to mobilize for redistribution. By engaging in hinge institutions–non-binding, nationwide pl…
When Reformers Become Spoilers
In response to growing policy challenges, such as postconflict transitions and climate change, exceeding the scope of existing institutions, governments often enact extraordinary reforms—that is, nonincremental institutional innovations regulating state action through fast-tracking procedures, expanded mandates, and normative recalibration in previously unregulated domains. How do governments resolve policy conflicts when extraordinary reform col…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)