Lucas I González
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 804950 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lucas I González |
| NOMBRES | Lucas I |
| APELLIDO | González |
| FIRMA | GONZÁLEZ L I |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of General San Martín |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9512-6049 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the Covid-19 Crises in Latin America
The COVID-19 pandemic posed enormous challenges for governments worldwide to coordinate response efforts, particularly in federal countries. Without observing a clear relationship between federal and unitary countries and the number of deaths from COVID-19 in previous studies, this article explores whether conflicts (or cooperation) between levels of government are associated with more deaths. It codes intergovernmental conflicts examining at lea…
States, Alliances, and Subnational Inequality
Economic inequality is unevenly distributed across subnational territorial units, and national averages obscure this variability. What explains variations in inequality within countries? This study argues that the type of subnational governing alliance (regressive or progressive) expressed in the composition of government cabinets affects the level of provincial inequality. The study classifies and codes provincial cabinet members according to th…
Alianzas Gobernantes Y Deforestación en Las Provincias Argentinas (2001-2021)
Argentina es hoy uno de los diez principales países deforestadores del mundo. \nPero la distribución geográfica de la deforestación no es uniforme en el territorio \nnacional. Unas pocas provincias concentran valores enormes y otras prácticamente \nno tuvieron deforestación. ¿Por qué hay tanta variación en la pérdida de la cobertura arbórea en las provincias? El trabajo estudia la variación subnacional de la \ndeforestación a partir de la manera …
Modes of Extraction in Latin America's Lithium Triangle
Mitigating climate change requires a global transition from fossil fuels to a "green economy" driven by renewable energies. This shift has fostered massive investments in mining resources, notably lithium in South America, needed to store renewable energies. These mining ventures often produce harmful externalities where lithium is located. In Argentina, a major producer, striking variation has occurred in the fortunes of lithium-mining projects.…
Buying stones
Why do some governments manage to curb protest while others cannot and turmoil escalates to a social outbreak? This study proposes a theoretical argument that specifies how discretionary spending reduces conflict, highlighting the role of social movements in managing protests. It examines this and alternative arguments in Argentina, a country with strong social movements and historically large mobilizations, using statistical analysis with an ori…
Voluntary audits
Resisting Equality
Inequality is unequally distributed across the territory, and national averages obscure this variation. Pockets of very high inequality persist at the subnational level of government, even when national governments implement large scale redistributive policies. This study investigates which factors at the subnational level may help explaining differences in income inequality across units. The main claim is that in subnational units where local ec…
Governing a Pandemic
How do governments address complex, cross-sectoral problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic? Why were some Latin American countries more successful at containing the pandemic's most devastating health outcomes? We argue that national governments that were more collaborative in their response to COVID-19 were more successful in reducing death rates. Our original dataset offers a novel attempt to operationalise collaborative governance (CG). We underta…
Undermining Governors
Throughout Latin American federations, programmatic welfare spending is increasingly nationally oriented and bureaucratically delivered. By explaining the logic and the effects of combining two types of federal spending, discretionary and non-discretionary, this article uncovers an additional driver that contributes to understanding policymaking and its implementation not only in Argentina, but potentially in other robust federal systems such as …
The Impact of Oil Rents on Subnational Development
Federal Distributive Politics and the Unequal Distribution of Violence
Violence is unequally distributed across provinces. In Argentina, the least violent provinces have a murder rate similar to Sweden’s. The most violent ones have a murder rate comparable to South Sudan’s. What explains this unequal distribution of violence? This article claims that political turnover at the provincial level reduces the partisan control over police forces and challenges previous informal pacts, while being in the opposition to the …
Federal transfers, inequality, and redistribution
Does federalism encourage inequality? Or, do transfers from the central government augment redistribution? This research examines whether variation in the institutional structures as well as the mechanisms and criteria for the distribution of fiscal resources in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico affect interregional and interpersonal inequality. Using descriptive statistics and regression models for original panel data from these fiv…
Oil Rents and Patronage
Oil rents turn democratic governments into authoritarian governments.They also help to consolidate and sustain authoritarian rule once in place.These are the claims several authors make connecting the rents from oil with the emergence and consolidation of authoritarian rule. 1 One of the most important causal connectors between large oil revenues and authoritarian rule is the way in which governments spend these rents from the oil sector.Some aut…
Electoral Competition and Social Spending in the Argentine Provinces
What is the effect of political competition on subnational social spending? Using descriptive statistics and regression models for original budget panel data for the 24 Argentine provinces between 1993 and 2009, the study finds that social spending increases the more electorally secure governors are and the longer they have been in office. It also finds that other arguments in the literature are relevant in explaining variations on types of spend…
Coaliciones Electorales, Estabilidad Del Gabinete Y Gasto Social Provincial
Por qué algunos gobiernos gastan más en bienes públicos que otros? ¿Por qué varía el gasto social? Este trabajo explora algunos factores clave que explican la variación en el gasto social de las provincias argentinas. Estudiamos estas provincias porque tienen gran autonomía en la decisión de los montos a asignar como gasto social y por la gran variación en el monto que las provincias asignan a esse tipo de gasto. A partir de datos originales del …
When Are Federations More Unequal? The Political Economy of Interregional Redistribution in Developing Federations
Presidents, governors, and the politics of distribution in federal democracies
Presidential Popularity and the Politics of Distributing Federal Funds in Argentina
This article studies the main factors that affect the allocation of non-earmarked federal funds to subnational units in Argentina between 1999 and 2009. The main contribution is that it brings presidential popularity together with presidential structural and partisan preferences for distribution into the analysis. It argues that electorally strong and popular presidents tend to increase transfers to developing districts and reduce allocations to …
Distributive Politics in Developing Federal Democracies
Using original data from the period 1999-2011 on federal infrastructure investment for all subnational units in two federations, Argentina and Brazil, and a unitary nation, Colombia, this study shows that in developing federal countries with strong governors, presidents use nonearmarked transfers as a tool to compensate governors for sizable and secure territorial political support. The study argues that in these cases, resources do not make elec…
Transferencias federales, desigualdad interregional y redistribución en América Latina
Esta investigación analiza el impacto de las transferencias federales y del gasto subnacional en el desarrollo humano y la equidad interregional. Los datos de transferencias y gasto subnacional en Argentina, Brasil, México, Chile y Colombia, entre 1983-2011, indican que el poder redistributivo del gobierno central está asociado con mejoras en la equidad interregional, pero no con mejores valores de desarrollo humano, exactamente al contrario de l…
The Redistributive Effects of Centralization and Decentralization across Subnational Units
Several scholars havearguedthat decentralization benefits statesand municipalities, grantingthemmoreautonomyfor managing theirbudgets and moreresources to deliver theirservices. Othershavequestioned this assertion, claiming that decentralization makes subnational units morefiscallydependent on central governments. This articleargues that thefiscal impactofdecentralization must bedifferentiated across states. It theoretically specifies and empiric…
The Politics of Happiness
Recent decades have witnessed the development of an extensive social scientific research program on the determinants of life satisfaction. We examine the role of political factors in affecting quality of life in the context of the American states. In particular, we ask whether the choices made by voters, as manifested by the governments they elect, and the subsequent public policy regimes those governments establish, determine the degree to which…
Political Power, Fiscal Crises, and Decentralization in Latin America
What factors shape decentralization processes in Latin American federations? This work reviews and statistically analyzes current approaches on the topic, questions some claims of generality in their theoretical frameworks, and presents an argument to explain variation in decentralization processes across these federations. The main hypothesis is that the degree of decentralization (in fiscal and administrative terms) in Latin American federation…
The Politics of Happiness
Recent decades have witnessed the development of an extensive social scientific research program on the determinants of life satisfaction. We examine the role of political factors in affecting quality of life in the context of the American states. In particular, we ask whether the choices made by voters, as manifested by the governments they elect, and the subsequent public policy regimes those governments establish, determine the degree to which…
Governing a Pandemic
How do governments address complex, cross-sectoral problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic? Why were some Latin American countries more successful at containing the pandemic's most devastating health outcomes? We argue that national governments that were more collaborative in their response to COVID-19 were more successful in reducing death rates. Our original dataset offers a novel attempt to operationalise collaborative governance (CG). We underta…
Political Power, Fiscal Crises, and Decentralization in Latin America
What factors shape decentralization processes in Latin American federations? This work reviews and statistically analyzes current approaches on the topic, questions some claims of generality in their theoretical frameworks, and presents an argument to explain variation in decentralization processes across these federations. The main hypothesis is that the degree of decentralization (in fiscal and administrative terms) in Latin American federation…
Oil Rents and Patronage
Oil rents turn democratic governments into authoritarian governments.They also help to consolidate and sustain authoritarian rule once in place.These are the claims several authors make connecting the rents from oil with the emergence and consolidation of authoritarian rule. 1 One of the most important causal connectors between large oil revenues and authoritarian rule is the way in which governments spend these rents from the oil sector.Some aut…
Electoral Competition and Social Spending in the Argentine Provinces
What is the effect of political competition on subnational social spending? Using descriptive statistics and regression models for original budget panel data for the 24 Argentine provinces between 1993 and 2009, the study finds that social spending increases the more electorally secure governors are and the longer they have been in office. It also finds that other arguments in the literature are relevant in explaining variations on types of spend…
Distributive Politics in Developing Federal Democracies
Using original data from the period 1999-2011 on federal infrastructure investment for all subnational units in two federations, Argentina and Brazil, and a unitary nation, Colombia, this study shows that in developing federal countries with strong governors, presidents use nonearmarked transfers as a tool to compensate governors for sizable and secure territorial political support. The study argues that in these cases, resources do not make elec…
Federal transfers, inequality, and redistribution
Does federalism encourage inequality? Or, do transfers from the central government augment redistribution? This research examines whether variation in the institutional structures as well as the mechanisms and criteria for the distribution of fiscal resources in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico affect interregional and interpersonal inequality. Using descriptive statistics and regression models for original panel data from these fiv…
Resisting Equality
Inequality is unequally distributed across the territory, and national averages obscure this variation. Pockets of very high inequality persist at the subnational level of government, even when national governments implement large scale redistributive policies. This study investigates which factors at the subnational level may help explaining differences in income inequality across units. The main claim is that in subnational units where local ec…
The Impact of Oil Rents on Subnational Development
When Are Federations More Unequal? The Political Economy of Interregional Redistribution in Developing Federations
Presidential Popularity and the Politics of Distributing Federal Funds in Argentina
This article studies the main factors that affect the allocation of non-earmarked federal funds to subnational units in Argentina between 1999 and 2009. The main contribution is that it brings presidential popularity together with presidential structural and partisan preferences for distribution into the analysis. It argues that electorally strong and popular presidents tend to increase transfers to developing districts and reduce allocations to …
Modes of Extraction in Latin America's Lithium Triangle
Mitigating climate change requires a global transition from fossil fuels to a "green economy" driven by renewable energies. This shift has fostered massive investments in mining resources, notably lithium in South America, needed to store renewable energies. These mining ventures often produce harmful externalities where lithium is located. In Argentina, a major producer, striking variation has occurred in the fortunes of lithium-mining projects.…
Federal Distributive Politics and the Unequal Distribution of Violence
Violence is unequally distributed across provinces. In Argentina, the least violent provinces have a murder rate similar to Sweden’s. The most violent ones have a murder rate comparable to South Sudan’s. What explains this unequal distribution of violence? This article claims that political turnover at the provincial level reduces the partisan control over police forces and challenges previous informal pacts, while being in the opposition to the …
Transferencias federales, desigualdad interregional y redistribución en América Latina
Esta investigación analiza el impacto de las transferencias federales y del gasto subnacional en el desarrollo humano y la equidad interregional. Los datos de transferencias y gasto subnacional en Argentina, Brasil, México, Chile y Colombia, entre 1983-2011, indican que el poder redistributivo del gobierno central está asociado con mejoras en la equidad interregional, pero no con mejores valores de desarrollo humano, exactamente al contrario de l…
Undermining Governors
Throughout Latin American federations, programmatic welfare spending is increasingly nationally oriented and bureaucratically delivered. By explaining the logic and the effects of combining two types of federal spending, discretionary and non-discretionary, this article uncovers an additional driver that contributes to understanding policymaking and its implementation not only in Argentina, but potentially in other robust federal systems such as …
Coaliciones Electorales, Estabilidad Del Gabinete Y Gasto Social Provincial
Por qué algunos gobiernos gastan más en bienes públicos que otros? ¿Por qué varía el gasto social? Este trabajo explora algunos factores clave que explican la variación en el gasto social de las provincias argentinas. Estudiamos estas provincias porque tienen gran autonomía en la decisión de los montos a asignar como gasto social y por la gran variación en el monto que las provincias asignan a esse tipo de gasto. A partir de datos originales del …
Political Power, Fiscal Crises, and Decentralization in Latin America
What factors shape decentralization processes in Latin American federations? This work reviews and statistically analyzes current approaches on the topic, questions some claims of generality in their theoretical frameworks, and presents an argument to explain variation in decentralization processes across these federations. The main hypothesis is that the degree of decentralization (in fiscal and administrative terms) in Latin American federation…
The Politics of Happiness
Recent decades have witnessed the development of an extensive social scientific research program on the determinants of life satisfaction. We examine the role of political factors in affecting quality of life in the context of the American states. In particular, we ask whether the choices made by voters, as manifested by the governments they elect, and the subsequent public policy regimes those governments establish, determine the degree to which…
The Redistributive Effects of Centralization and Decentralization across Subnational Units
Several scholars havearguedthat decentralization benefits statesand municipalities, grantingthemmoreautonomyfor managing theirbudgets and moreresources to deliver theirservices. Othershavequestioned this assertion, claiming that decentralization makes subnational units morefiscallydependent on central governments. This articleargues that thefiscal impactofdecentralization must bedifferentiated across states. It theoretically specifies and empiric…
Transferencias federales, desigualdad interregional y redistribución en América Latina
Esta investigación analiza el impacto de las transferencias federales y del gasto subnacional en el desarrollo humano y la equidad interregional. Los datos de transferencias y gasto subnacional en Argentina, Brasil, México, Chile y Colombia, entre 1983-2011, indican que el poder redistributivo del gobierno central está asociado con mejoras en la equidad interregional, pero no con mejores valores de desarrollo humano, exactamente al contrario de l…
Distributive Politics in Developing Federal Democracies
Using original data from the period 1999-2011 on federal infrastructure investment for all subnational units in two federations, Argentina and Brazil, and a unitary nation, Colombia, this study shows that in developing federal countries with strong governors, presidents use nonearmarked transfers as a tool to compensate governors for sizable and secure territorial political support. The study argues that in these cases, resources do not make elec…
When Are Federations More Unequal? The Political Economy of Interregional Redistribution in Developing Federations
Presidents, governors, and the politics of distribution in federal democracies
Presidential Popularity and the Politics of Distributing Federal Funds in Argentina
This article studies the main factors that affect the allocation of non-earmarked federal funds to subnational units in Argentina between 1999 and 2009. The main contribution is that it brings presidential popularity together with presidential structural and partisan preferences for distribution into the analysis. It argues that electorally strong and popular presidents tend to increase transfers to developing districts and reduce allocations to …
Electoral Competition and Social Spending in the Argentine Provinces
What is the effect of political competition on subnational social spending? Using descriptive statistics and regression models for original budget panel data for the 24 Argentine provinces between 1993 and 2009, the study finds that social spending increases the more electorally secure governors are and the longer they have been in office. It also finds that other arguments in the literature are relevant in explaining variations on types of spend…
Coaliciones Electorales, Estabilidad Del Gabinete Y Gasto Social Provincial
Por qué algunos gobiernos gastan más en bienes públicos que otros? ¿Por qué varía el gasto social? Este trabajo explora algunos factores clave que explican la variación en el gasto social de las provincias argentinas. Estudiamos estas provincias porque tienen gran autonomía en la decisión de los montos a asignar como gasto social y por la gran variación en el monto que las provincias asignan a esse tipo de gasto. A partir de datos originales del …
Federal transfers, inequality, and redistribution
Does federalism encourage inequality? Or, do transfers from the central government augment redistribution? This research examines whether variation in the institutional structures as well as the mechanisms and criteria for the distribution of fiscal resources in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico affect interregional and interpersonal inequality. Using descriptive statistics and regression models for original panel data from these fiv…
Oil Rents and Patronage
Oil rents turn democratic governments into authoritarian governments.They also help to consolidate and sustain authoritarian rule once in place.These are the claims several authors make connecting the rents from oil with the emergence and consolidation of authoritarian rule. 1 One of the most important causal connectors between large oil revenues and authoritarian rule is the way in which governments spend these rents from the oil sector.Some aut…
The Impact of Oil Rents on Subnational Development
Federal Distributive Politics and the Unequal Distribution of Violence
Violence is unequally distributed across provinces. In Argentina, the least violent provinces have a murder rate similar to Sweden’s. The most violent ones have a murder rate comparable to South Sudan’s. What explains this unequal distribution of violence? This article claims that political turnover at the provincial level reduces the partisan control over police forces and challenges previous informal pacts, while being in the opposition to the …
Governing a Pandemic
How do governments address complex, cross-sectoral problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic? Why were some Latin American countries more successful at containing the pandemic's most devastating health outcomes? We argue that national governments that were more collaborative in their response to COVID-19 were more successful in reducing death rates. Our original dataset offers a novel attempt to operationalise collaborative governance (CG). We underta…
Undermining Governors
Throughout Latin American federations, programmatic welfare spending is increasingly nationally oriented and bureaucratically delivered. By explaining the logic and the effects of combining two types of federal spending, discretionary and non-discretionary, this article uncovers an additional driver that contributes to understanding policymaking and its implementation not only in Argentina, but potentially in other robust federal systems such as …
Buying stones
Why do some governments manage to curb protest while others cannot and turmoil escalates to a social outbreak? This study proposes a theoretical argument that specifies how discretionary spending reduces conflict, highlighting the role of social movements in managing protests. It examines this and alternative arguments in Argentina, a country with strong social movements and historically large mobilizations, using statistical analysis with an ori…
Voluntary audits
Resisting Equality
Inequality is unequally distributed across the territory, and national averages obscure this variation. Pockets of very high inequality persist at the subnational level of government, even when national governments implement large scale redistributive policies. This study investigates which factors at the subnational level may help explaining differences in income inequality across units. The main claim is that in subnational units where local ec…
Modes of Extraction in Latin America's Lithium Triangle
Mitigating climate change requires a global transition from fossil fuels to a "green economy" driven by renewable energies. This shift has fostered massive investments in mining resources, notably lithium in South America, needed to store renewable energies. These mining ventures often produce harmful externalities where lithium is located. In Argentina, a major producer, striking variation has occurred in the fortunes of lithium-mining projects.…
States, Alliances, and Subnational Inequality
Economic inequality is unevenly distributed across subnational territorial units, and national averages obscure this variability. What explains variations in inequality within countries? This study argues that the type of subnational governing alliance (regressive or progressive) expressed in the composition of government cabinets affects the level of provincial inequality. The study classifies and codes provincial cabinet members according to th…
Alianzas Gobernantes Y Deforestación en Las Provincias Argentinas (2001-2021)
Argentina es hoy uno de los diez principales países deforestadores del mundo. \nPero la distribución geográfica de la deforestación no es uniforme en el territorio \nnacional. Unas pocas provincias concentran valores enormes y otras prácticamente \nno tuvieron deforestación. ¿Por qué hay tanta variación en la pérdida de la cobertura arbórea en las provincias? El trabajo estudia la variación subnacional de la \ndeforestación a partir de la manera …
Federalism, Intergovernmental Conflict, and the Covid-19 Crises in Latin America
The COVID-19 pandemic posed enormous challenges for governments worldwide to coordinate response efforts, particularly in federal countries. Without observing a clear relationship between federal and unitary countries and the number of deaths from COVID-19 in previous studies, this article explores whether conflicts (or cooperation) between levels of government are associated with more deaths. It codes intergovernmental conflicts examining at lea…
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