Taeko Hiroi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 879338 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Taeko Hiroi |
| NOMBRES | Taeko |
| APELLIDO | Hiroi |
| FIRMA | HIROI T |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0751-9342 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance
Why do politically and economically powerful states accept the loss of their legislative power by assenting to their underrepresentation in the national legislature? Given high levels of legislative malapportionment, it is puzzling why populous states would accept a deal they could easily refute. Powerful states may accept their legislative underrepresentation in order to create a sustainable political-institutional arrangement by which they can …
Safeguarding the promise of integration
We posit that having an economically preponderant member state in a regional integration organization (RIO) helps prevent and defeat coups within member states, particularly in organizations with no formal prohibition against irregular government change. The economic promises of integration require political stability between and within member states. Previous research demonstrates that economically preponderant states, acting as regional leaders…
Corruption, patronage, and avertable child deaths in developing countries
Many children die of easily preventable or treatable diseases in developing countries. What are the relationships between corruption, patronage, and child mortality in low‐ and middle‐income countries? We argue that corruption and patronage affect child mortality outcomes for some causes of death, especially those that are more easily prevented or treated with affordable care. To test our hypotheses, we utilize cross‐national time‐series analysis…
O cálculo do presidente ao nomear ministros no Brasil
Este artigo procura identificar os fatores que influenciam a escolha dos ministros no Brasil, considerando a importância/saliência de cada um dos ministérios. Buscamos conhecer a influência dos aspectos regionais sobre tal escolha, controlando as características e trajetórias pessoais dos ministros, seja no que diz respeito aos aspectos políticos e técnicos, seja com relação à proximidade e à lealdade ao presidente da República. Para isso, utiliz…
Todos Os Estados São Iguais, Mas Alguns São Mais Iguais Que Os Outros
Nesse estudo, procuramos identificar o peso dos estados na ocupação dos cargos mais importantes do país durante todo o período republicano. O nosso ponto principal é que os estados mais ricos, especialmente São Paulo, apesar de terem sido sub-representados no Senado Federal e na Câmara dos Deputados, predominaram na ocupação de outros cargos ainda mais importantes, tais como os de presidente da República, ministros da área econômica, presidentes …
Paradox of Redistribution
This article examines the relationship between legislative malapportionment, redistribution, and regional economic development. One of the primary justifications for legislative malapportionment—the disparity between the share of legislative seats and the share of the national population—is interregional income equalization by means of favorable allocations of resources to rural areas through overrepresentation. By analyzing the case of Brazil us…
Disentangling legislative duration in coalitional presidential systems
The speed and actions that bills face in legislatures vary immensely, but we do not have a comprehensive framework to analyse legislative durations. Moreover, the absence of data detailing legislative activities and durations in distinct stages of legislative processes hinders analysis. This article presents a framework for analysing legislative delay in coalitional presidential systems and examines unique data on durations, attributes, and parli…
Policy change and coups
Building on the models developed by Boix, Acemoglu, and Robinson on the relationship between economic structures and regime change, we develop a theory that emphasises structural characteristics of societies and the effects of policy change in such circumstances. We posit that significant policy change in an unequal or asset-specific society induces coups against the incumbent political leader by the losing faction of the elites seeking to preven…
Obstrucción y proceso decisorio en la Cámara de los Diputados
En este artículo se explica cómo la gestión de la coalición de gobierno y los atributos de la dinámica del conflicto entre e intra-coaliciones, tanto del gobierno como de la oposición, afectan a la incidencia de movimientos de obstrucción en la Cámara de los Diputados brasileña entre 1991 y 2010. Los movimientos de obstrucción son operacionalizados a través del porcentaje de votaciones nominales mensuales relativas a requerimientos procedimentale…
Dimensions of Legislative Conflict
This article addresses central issues in multiparty presidential systems: the functioning of legislative coalitions and the dynamics of legislative conflict. Since electoral competition has elements of both positive‐sum (increase in common support) and zero‐sum (exact division of the support) qualities, lawmaking in coalitional systems presents unique challenges. Using legislative data fromBrazil, we examine how coalition management and unity aff…
Causes and Triggers of Coups d'état
What explains the propensities of countries to experience coups d'état ? This article tests various, at times competing, theories of coups using event history analysis by modeling coups as repeatable events. We highlight the different roles that political regimes play in inducing or deterring coups, and argue that political regimes that are not clearly democratic or autocratic are the most vulnerable to coups. Features of hybrid regimes increase …
Malapportionment and Geographical Bases of Electoral Support in the Brazilian Senate
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Brazilian senators. The conventional wisdom asserts that malapportionment contributes to the “politics of backwardness” – that it facilitates clientelism and hinders issue-based campaigns, reducing electoral competition and producing geographically concentrated patterns of votes. Our study partially confirms, yet partially refutes this wisdom. Our res…
Exchange Rate Regime, Central Bank Independence, and Political Business Cycles in Brazil
Perils of parliamentarism? Political systems and the stability of democracy revisited
Parliamentary systems are generally regarded as superior to presidential ones in democratic sustenance. This article contributes to the debate on the relationship between systems of government and the survival of democracy by bringing in a new perspective and analysing the experiences of 131 democracies during 1960–2006. We argue that systems of government do matter, but their effects are indirect; they exert their influence through societies' pr…
Timing and Outcome of Legislation
In 1995 and 2003, Brazilian Presidents Cardoso and Lula da Silva submitted almost identical pension reform bills to Congress. However, these bills had very different fates in terms of the outcomes of congressional deliberation and the timing of enactment. What explains timing and outcomes of legislation? Using Brazilian pension reform as a case, this article explains legislative timing and outcomes from bicameral and bargaining perspectives. It e…
The Dynamics of Lawmaking in a Bicameral Legislature
This article analyzes legislative performance in a nascent presidential bicameral democracy, taking Brazil as a case. The author argues that the timing and outcomes of legislative production are functions of bicameral incongruence, types of bicameralism, sequence of examination, and legislative bargaining. These hypotheses are tested using a new legislative data set from Brazil that covers over 3,000 bills submitted to the National Congress since…
Brazilian Regional Power in the Development of Mercosul
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government presided over three critical junctures in the development of the Common Market of the South (Mercosul): the attempted military coup in Paraguay in 1996, the devaluation of the Brazilian real in 1999, and the Argentine economic crisis in 2002. Its responses to these events were critical to the development of Mercosul because of Brazil's unique position as the largest country in the bloc. Many theori…
The Effects of Unequal Size
We argue that successful economic integration requires a regionally preponderant country that acts as a provider of goods. However, when a large member acts in a costly unilateral manner, regional integration suffers because of the asymmetric effects on smaller members. In contrast, when smaller members act in a costly unilateral manner, the preponderant power is likely to absorb costs. We propose to test these hypotheses by using the case of the…
The Political Economy of Personnel Expenditures
The main purpose of the paper is to test a model that explains variation in the ratio of expenditure with personnel in Brazilian states from 1965 to 1994. The independent variables include indicators of the political environment in the distinct states, such as number of veto players and level of political competition. Furthermore, variables that model the business electoral cycle and institutional changes during the period were also included in t…
Power Preponderance and Domestic Politics
This article addresses the domestic and international conditions that influence regional integration. The national political elite is assumed to be opportunistic and will opt for regional integration when the domestic and international conditions provide economic gains for their constituencies through greater economic integration. The hypotheses state that increases in regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (ANCOM, CACM/SICA, CAR…
The Dynamics of Lawmaking in a Bicameral Legislature
This article analyzes legislative performance in a nascent presidential bicameral democracy, taking Brazil as a case. The author argues that the timing and outcomes of legislative production are functions of bicameral incongruence, types of bicameralism, sequence of examination, and legislative bargaining. These hypotheses are tested using a new legislative data set from Brazil that covers over 3,000 bills submitted to the National Congress since…
Dimensions of Legislative Conflict
This article addresses central issues in multiparty presidential systems: the functioning of legislative coalitions and the dynamics of legislative conflict. Since electoral competition has elements of both positive‐sum (increase in common support) and zero‐sum (exact division of the support) qualities, lawmaking in coalitional systems presents unique challenges. Using legislative data fromBrazil, we examine how coalition management and unity aff…
Causes and Triggers of Coups d'état
What explains the propensities of countries to experience coups d'état ? This article tests various, at times competing, theories of coups using event history analysis by modeling coups as repeatable events. We highlight the different roles that political regimes play in inducing or deterring coups, and argue that political regimes that are not clearly democratic or autocratic are the most vulnerable to coups. Features of hybrid regimes increase …
Power Preponderance and Domestic Politics
This article addresses the domestic and international conditions that influence regional integration. The national political elite is assumed to be opportunistic and will opt for regional integration when the domestic and international conditions provide economic gains for their constituencies through greater economic integration. The hypotheses state that increases in regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (ANCOM, CACM/SICA, CAR…
Timing and Outcome of Legislation
In 1995 and 2003, Brazilian Presidents Cardoso and Lula da Silva submitted almost identical pension reform bills to Congress. However, these bills had very different fates in terms of the outcomes of congressional deliberation and the timing of enactment. What explains timing and outcomes of legislation? Using Brazilian pension reform as a case, this article explains legislative timing and outcomes from bicameral and bargaining perspectives. It e…
Perils of parliamentarism? Political systems and the stability of democracy revisited
Parliamentary systems are generally regarded as superior to presidential ones in democratic sustenance. This article contributes to the debate on the relationship between systems of government and the survival of democracy by bringing in a new perspective and analysing the experiences of 131 democracies during 1960–2006. We argue that systems of government do matter, but their effects are indirect; they exert their influence through societies' pr…
Disentangling legislative duration in coalitional presidential systems
The speed and actions that bills face in legislatures vary immensely, but we do not have a comprehensive framework to analyse legislative durations. Moreover, the absence of data detailing legislative activities and durations in distinct stages of legislative processes hinders analysis. This article presents a framework for analysing legislative delay in coalitional presidential systems and examines unique data on durations, attributes, and parli…
Paradox of Redistribution
This article examines the relationship between legislative malapportionment, redistribution, and regional economic development. One of the primary justifications for legislative malapportionment—the disparity between the share of legislative seats and the share of the national population—is interregional income equalization by means of favorable allocations of resources to rural areas through overrepresentation. By analyzing the case of Brazil us…
Policy change and coups
Building on the models developed by Boix, Acemoglu, and Robinson on the relationship between economic structures and regime change, we develop a theory that emphasises structural characteristics of societies and the effects of policy change in such circumstances. We posit that significant policy change in an unequal or asset-specific society induces coups against the incumbent political leader by the losing faction of the elites seeking to preven…
Brazilian Regional Power in the Development of Mercosul
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government presided over three critical junctures in the development of the Common Market of the South (Mercosul): the attempted military coup in Paraguay in 1996, the devaluation of the Brazilian real in 1999, and the Argentine economic crisis in 2002. Its responses to these events were critical to the development of Mercosul because of Brazil's unique position as the largest country in the bloc. Many theori…
The Political Economy of Personnel Expenditures
The main purpose of the paper is to test a model that explains variation in the ratio of expenditure with personnel in Brazilian states from 1965 to 1994. The independent variables include indicators of the political environment in the distinct states, such as number of veto players and level of political competition. Furthermore, variables that model the business electoral cycle and institutional changes during the period were also included in t…
Malapportionment and Geographical Bases of Electoral Support in the Brazilian Senate
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Brazilian senators. The conventional wisdom asserts that malapportionment contributes to the “politics of backwardness” – that it facilitates clientelism and hinders issue-based campaigns, reducing electoral competition and producing geographically concentrated patterns of votes. Our study partially confirms, yet partially refutes this wisdom. Our res…
Safeguarding the promise of integration
We posit that having an economically preponderant member state in a regional integration organization (RIO) helps prevent and defeat coups within member states, particularly in organizations with no formal prohibition against irregular government change. The economic promises of integration require political stability between and within member states. Previous research demonstrates that economically preponderant states, acting as regional leaders…
Todos Os Estados São Iguais, Mas Alguns São Mais Iguais Que Os Outros
Nesse estudo, procuramos identificar o peso dos estados na ocupação dos cargos mais importantes do país durante todo o período republicano. O nosso ponto principal é que os estados mais ricos, especialmente São Paulo, apesar de terem sido sub-representados no Senado Federal e na Câmara dos Deputados, predominaram na ocupação de outros cargos ainda mais importantes, tais como os de presidente da República, ministros da área econômica, presidentes …
Exchange Rate Regime, Central Bank Independence, and Political Business Cycles in Brazil
Power Preponderance and Domestic Politics
This article addresses the domestic and international conditions that influence regional integration. The national political elite is assumed to be opportunistic and will opt for regional integration when the domestic and international conditions provide economic gains for their constituencies through greater economic integration. The hypotheses state that increases in regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (ANCOM, CACM/SICA, CAR…
The Effects of Unequal Size
We argue that successful economic integration requires a regionally preponderant country that acts as a provider of goods. However, when a large member acts in a costly unilateral manner, regional integration suffers because of the asymmetric effects on smaller members. In contrast, when smaller members act in a costly unilateral manner, the preponderant power is likely to absorb costs. We propose to test these hypotheses by using the case of the…
The Political Economy of Personnel Expenditures
The main purpose of the paper is to test a model that explains variation in the ratio of expenditure with personnel in Brazilian states from 1965 to 1994. The independent variables include indicators of the political environment in the distinct states, such as number of veto players and level of political competition. Furthermore, variables that model the business electoral cycle and institutional changes during the period were also included in t…
Brazilian Regional Power in the Development of Mercosul
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government presided over three critical junctures in the development of the Common Market of the South (Mercosul): the attempted military coup in Paraguay in 1996, the devaluation of the Brazilian real in 1999, and the Argentine economic crisis in 2002. Its responses to these events were critical to the development of Mercosul because of Brazil's unique position as the largest country in the bloc. Many theori…
Timing and Outcome of Legislation
In 1995 and 2003, Brazilian Presidents Cardoso and Lula da Silva submitted almost identical pension reform bills to Congress. However, these bills had very different fates in terms of the outcomes of congressional deliberation and the timing of enactment. What explains timing and outcomes of legislation? Using Brazilian pension reform as a case, this article explains legislative timing and outcomes from bicameral and bargaining perspectives. It e…
The Dynamics of Lawmaking in a Bicameral Legislature
This article analyzes legislative performance in a nascent presidential bicameral democracy, taking Brazil as a case. The author argues that the timing and outcomes of legislative production are functions of bicameral incongruence, types of bicameralism, sequence of examination, and legislative bargaining. These hypotheses are tested using a new legislative data set from Brazil that covers over 3,000 bills submitted to the National Congress since…
Exchange Rate Regime, Central Bank Independence, and Political Business Cycles in Brazil
Perils of parliamentarism? Political systems and the stability of democracy revisited
Parliamentary systems are generally regarded as superior to presidential ones in democratic sustenance. This article contributes to the debate on the relationship between systems of government and the survival of democracy by bringing in a new perspective and analysing the experiences of 131 democracies during 1960–2006. We argue that systems of government do matter, but their effects are indirect; they exert their influence through societies' pr…
Causes and Triggers of Coups d'état
What explains the propensities of countries to experience coups d'état ? This article tests various, at times competing, theories of coups using event history analysis by modeling coups as repeatable events. We highlight the different roles that political regimes play in inducing or deterring coups, and argue that political regimes that are not clearly democratic or autocratic are the most vulnerable to coups. Features of hybrid regimes increase …
Malapportionment and Geographical Bases of Electoral Support in the Brazilian Senate
This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Brazilian senators. The conventional wisdom asserts that malapportionment contributes to the “politics of backwardness” – that it facilitates clientelism and hinders issue-based campaigns, reducing electoral competition and producing geographically concentrated patterns of votes. Our study partially confirms, yet partially refutes this wisdom. Our res…
Dimensions of Legislative Conflict
This article addresses central issues in multiparty presidential systems: the functioning of legislative coalitions and the dynamics of legislative conflict. Since electoral competition has elements of both positive‐sum (increase in common support) and zero‐sum (exact division of the support) qualities, lawmaking in coalitional systems presents unique challenges. Using legislative data fromBrazil, we examine how coalition management and unity aff…
Policy change and coups
Building on the models developed by Boix, Acemoglu, and Robinson on the relationship between economic structures and regime change, we develop a theory that emphasises structural characteristics of societies and the effects of policy change in such circumstances. We posit that significant policy change in an unequal or asset-specific society induces coups against the incumbent political leader by the losing faction of the elites seeking to preven…
Obstrucción y proceso decisorio en la Cámara de los Diputados
En este artículo se explica cómo la gestión de la coalición de gobierno y los atributos de la dinámica del conflicto entre e intra-coaliciones, tanto del gobierno como de la oposición, afectan a la incidencia de movimientos de obstrucción en la Cámara de los Diputados brasileña entre 1991 y 2010. Los movimientos de obstrucción son operacionalizados a través del porcentaje de votaciones nominales mensuales relativas a requerimientos procedimentale…
Disentangling legislative duration in coalitional presidential systems
The speed and actions that bills face in legislatures vary immensely, but we do not have a comprehensive framework to analyse legislative durations. Moreover, the absence of data detailing legislative activities and durations in distinct stages of legislative processes hinders analysis. This article presents a framework for analysing legislative delay in coalitional presidential systems and examines unique data on durations, attributes, and parli…
Paradox of Redistribution
This article examines the relationship between legislative malapportionment, redistribution, and regional economic development. One of the primary justifications for legislative malapportionment—the disparity between the share of legislative seats and the share of the national population—is interregional income equalization by means of favorable allocations of resources to rural areas through overrepresentation. By analyzing the case of Brazil us…
Todos Os Estados São Iguais, Mas Alguns São Mais Iguais Que Os Outros
Nesse estudo, procuramos identificar o peso dos estados na ocupação dos cargos mais importantes do país durante todo o período republicano. O nosso ponto principal é que os estados mais ricos, especialmente São Paulo, apesar de terem sido sub-representados no Senado Federal e na Câmara dos Deputados, predominaram na ocupação de outros cargos ainda mais importantes, tais como os de presidente da República, ministros da área econômica, presidentes …
O cálculo do presidente ao nomear ministros no Brasil
Este artigo procura identificar os fatores que influenciam a escolha dos ministros no Brasil, considerando a importância/saliência de cada um dos ministérios. Buscamos conhecer a influência dos aspectos regionais sobre tal escolha, controlando as características e trajetórias pessoais dos ministros, seja no que diz respeito aos aspectos políticos e técnicos, seja com relação à proximidade e à lealdade ao presidente da República. Para isso, utiliz…
Safeguarding the promise of integration
We posit that having an economically preponderant member state in a regional integration organization (RIO) helps prevent and defeat coups within member states, particularly in organizations with no formal prohibition against irregular government change. The economic promises of integration require political stability between and within member states. Previous research demonstrates that economically preponderant states, acting as regional leaders…
Corruption, patronage, and avertable child deaths in developing countries
Many children die of easily preventable or treatable diseases in developing countries. What are the relationships between corruption, patronage, and child mortality in low‐ and middle‐income countries? We argue that corruption and patronage affect child mortality outcomes for some causes of death, especially those that are more easily prevented or treated with affordable care. To test our hypotheses, we utilize cross‐national time‐series analysis…
Legislative Underrepresentation and Executive Dominance
Why do politically and economically powerful states accept the loss of their legislative power by assenting to their underrepresentation in the national legislature? Given high levels of legislative malapportionment, it is puzzling why populous states would accept a deal they could easily refute. Powerful states may accept their legislative underrepresentation in order to create a sustainable political-institutional arrangement by which they can …
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