Livio Silva‐muller
Biographic Data
| ID | 388131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Livio Silva‐muller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Livio |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva‐muller |
| SIGNATURE | MULLER L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7067-8162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Whose merit, which redistribution? Elites, taxes, and transfers in Brazil and South Africa
Scholarship often treats two dimensions of meritocracy as interchangeable: if success is due to hard work, poverty must be due to a lack of effort. We contrast elites’ perceptions about their own success with their perceptions about the lack of success of others. We posit that these two dimensions—merit of self and merit of others—are distinct, with different implications for redistributive preferences, and varying salience across national contex…
Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State
How Race Matters for Elites' Views on Redistribution
Elites are increasingly visible in academic and political discourse owing to their disproportionate power in shaping policy. For the most part, however, elites have been viewed in race-blind terms. In this paper, we advance a racialized perspective on elite studies by highlighting three salient ways that race matters for elite views on inequality and redistribution. First, we focus on elites as racialized actors whose racial identities impact the…
Which Amazon problem? Problem-constructions and transnationalism in Brazilian presidential discourse since 1985
The Amazon is a complex object of policy that comprises environmental, economic, social, and sovereignty concerns. Despite this complexity, governments are often portrayed as having a single understanding of the region as a political problem. In this article, we investigate how the Amazon has been constructed as a problem in 6240 Brazilian presidential speeches since 1985 using supervised machine learning. Conceptually, we develop a framework tha…
Payment for ecosystem services and the practices of environmental fieldworkers in policy implementation
Payment for ecosystem services and the practices of environmental fieldworkers in policy implementation
Which Amazon problem? Problem-constructions and transnationalism in Brazilian presidential discourse since 1985
The Amazon is a complex object of policy that comprises environmental, economic, social, and sovereignty concerns. Despite this complexity, governments are often portrayed as having a single understanding of the region as a political problem. In this article, we investigate how the Amazon has been constructed as a problem in 6240 Brazilian presidential speeches since 1985 using supervised machine learning. Conceptually, we develop a framework tha…
How Race Matters for Elites' Views on Redistribution
Elites are increasingly visible in academic and political discourse owing to their disproportionate power in shaping policy. For the most part, however, elites have been viewed in race-blind terms. In this paper, we advance a racialized perspective on elite studies by highlighting three salient ways that race matters for elite views on inequality and redistribution. First, we focus on elites as racialized actors whose racial identities impact the…
Whose merit, which redistribution? Elites, taxes, and transfers in Brazil and South Africa
Scholarship often treats two dimensions of meritocracy as interchangeable: if success is due to hard work, poverty must be due to a lack of effort. We contrast elites’ perceptions about their own success with their perceptions about the lack of success of others. We posit that these two dimensions—merit of self and merit of others—are distinct, with different implications for redistributive preferences, and varying salience across national contex…
Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State
Politics (4 works) · Amazon rainforest (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Business (1 works)