Mariano Tommasi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1003362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariano Tommasi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariano |
| FAMILY NAME | Tommasi |
| SIGNATURE | TOMMASI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Andrés |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 438 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Reducir la edad de imputabilidad: Reflexiones desde la evidencia internacional
La criminalidad juvenil y la edad de imputabilidad han estado frecuentemente en el centro de la opinión pública, abriendo debates en el campo de las políticas sociales y penales. Este trabajo busca, desde una perspectiva de desarrollo humano y con vistas a la efectividad en la reducción de tasas de criminalidad, analizar el impacto de la baja en la edad de responsabilidad penal. Para este análisis, es elemental explorar cómo los contextos familia…
Familia y desarrollo humano en el siglo XXI Revisión de la literatura internacional y apuntes para el caso argentino
La literatura moderna sobre desarrollo humano señala que cuanto más temprano en la vida de las personas se invierte en aumentar y equiparar habilidades, mayores las probabilidades de desarrollo humano y movilidad social. El desarrollo temprano de las personas está enmarcado en su contexto social más cercano, es decir, en la familia. La familia es el primer ámbito del desarrollo humano y también de la desigualdad. Es fundamental estudiar a las fam…
Covid-19 and social protection of poor and vulnerable groups in Latin America: A conceptual framework
The growing crisis caused by the coronavirus disease pandemic has dire implications for Latin American societies. As is often the case, the most vulnerable sectors of society —especially those living in extreme poverty— are being hit the hardest. This article identifies strategies and specific responses designed to achieve three goals: (i) reduce epidemiological risks to save lives; (ii) protect livelihoods; and (iii) ensure human capital accumul…
Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: Prognosis of the longer-run persistence of Covid-19 in Latin America
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09501-x
Congressional Institutionalization: A Cross‐National Comparison
This article explains variations in levels of institutionalization across legislatures of the world. It construes institutionalization as an equilibrium outcome that emerges from beliefs and investments made by political actors. Drawing insights from work on US congressional institutionalization and congressional organization, and on comparative party system institutionalization, it provides an index to measure congressional institutionalization.…
Veto players and policy adaptability: An intertemporal perspective
The capacity to sustain policies over time and the capacity to adjust policies in the face of changing circumstances are two desirable properties of policymaking systems. Veto player theory, a very influential approach in comparative politics, has suggested that polities with more veto players will have the capacity to sustain policies at the expense of the ability to change policy when necessary. This paper argues that once intertemporal conside…
The Politics of Federalism in Argentina and its Implications for Governance and Accountability
The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not
This article attempts to build bridges in the formal study of policymaking across polities of different degrees of institutional development. It explores the reasons why policymaking is fairly institutionalized in some polities but not in others. It suggests extending standard models of institutionalized policymaking to allow for a wider set of actions, including the threat of violence or of damage to the economy. It engages the discussion of ins…
Political Institutions and Street Protests in Latin America
In this article, the authors argue that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. The authors explore this relationship empirically by combining country-level measures of institutional strength with individual-level information on protest participation in s…
Latin America: How State Capacity Determines Policy Success
Most countries in Latin America tend to chart similar courses through the different fashions of advice coming from development agencies and the varieties of political winds that blow across the region. In recent decades, we have seen pendulum swings from inward-looking developmental statism to neoliberal market-oriented reforms. Then, when the neoliberal reforms did not deliver what they had promised, the pendulum in many countries has recently s…
How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking
Over the past 30 years, democratic freedoms and competitive electoral processes have taken hold as never before in Latin America. How Democracy Works takes a detailed look, from an institutional perspective, at each of the main actors on the policymaking stage in Latin America, emphasizing the extent to which institutions facilitate or hinder intertemporal political cooperation and compromise. It analyzes official political actors and arenas, as …
New Economics of Human Behaviour
The economic approach to democracy
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Winston Churchill
Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America
Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America. By Alberto Díaz-Cayeros. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 302p. $80.00. Comparative federalism is a vibrant area of research, at the crossroads of various methodological and disciplinary approaches, and it has contributed to and enriched broader strands of scholarship in comparative politics and institutional analysis. Alberto Díaz-Cayeros has been one of the leading ne…
Principal-Agent Contracts under the Threat of Insurance
We show that standard principal-agent results are not robust to the introduction of additional contracting opportunities for the agent. We analyze extended games including additional players who might trade risk away from the agent. For some settings and parameter values, the principal is worse off, and total welfare is lower. In some cases lower effort is implemented. The principal's contract, when high effort is implemented, is steeper than in …
The Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 2006 Report
This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are presented in an analytical framework to help explain why policies that work in certain institutional environments may not work in others. The focus of this report is not the content of policies, or their effects on major economic and social variables, but …
Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes, and sheds light to the determinants of lobbying in separation-of-powers systems. We provide conditions for judicial decisions to be sensitive to legislat…
Expectativas frustradas: El Ciclo De La Convertibilidad
El trabajo estudia el proceso que llevo a la crisis de la economia argentina. El analisis se concentra en la secuencia de decisiones, publicas y privadas, y en las cambiantes percepciones e incentivos que las motivaron. En los anos noventa, la Argentina busco definir un nuevo sendero de crecimiento. Durante buena parte del periodo de la convertibilidad, el comportamiento de los agentes (internos y externos) parecio basarse en la prevision de que …
Judicial Independence in Unstable Environments, Argentina 1935-1998
Argentina's constitution and electoral rules promote a fragmented polity. It is in those environments that inde- pendent judiciaries develop. Instead, most analysts do not consider the Argentina judiciary as independent. In this article we attempt to explain this contradiction by showing that this perception is inappropriate. We de- velop a test of the hypothesis that the judiciary is independent by empiri- cally examining the political incen- ti…
Amateur Legislators -- Professional Politicians: The Consequences of Party-Centered Electoral Rules in a Federal System
The Argentine Congress plays a limited role in the production of public policy and is a relatively ineffective check on the Argentine Executive Branch. We argue this is the combined result of incentives created by several features of Argentine political institutions. In this article we emphasize the role of the country's electoral rules, which place the legislator re? election decision not in the hands of the voters, but rather in the hands of th…
Politics, institutions, and fiscal performance in a federal system: An analysis of the Argentine provinces
El funcionamiento de las instituciones políticas y las políticas públicas en la Argentina: Una Aproximación Desde La Nueva Economía Institucional
Instituciones y resultados fiscales
On the credibility of alternative exchange rate regimes
The New Economics of Human Behavior
Amateur Legislators -- Professional Politicians: The Consequences of Party-Centered Electoral Rules in a Federal System
The Argentine Congress plays a limited role in the production of public policy and is a relatively ineffective check on the Argentine Executive Branch. We argue this is the combined result of incentives created by several features of Argentine political institutions. In this article we emphasize the role of the country's electoral rules, which place the legislator re? election decision not in the hands of the voters, but rather in the hands of th…
Judicial Independence in Unstable Environments, Argentina 1935-1998
Argentina's constitution and electoral rules promote a fragmented polity. It is in those environments that inde- pendent judiciaries develop. Instead, most analysts do not consider the Argentina judiciary as independent. In this article we attempt to explain this contradiction by showing that this perception is inappropriate. We de- velop a test of the hypothesis that the judiciary is independent by empiri- cally examining the political incen- ti…
Political Institutions and Street Protests in Latin America
In this article, the authors argue that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. The authors explore this relationship empirically by combining country-level measures of institutional strength with individual-level information on protest participation in s…
Politics, institutions, and fiscal performance in a federal system: An analysis of the Argentine provinces
The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not
This article attempts to build bridges in the formal study of policymaking across polities of different degrees of institutional development. It explores the reasons why policymaking is fairly institutionalized in some polities but not in others. It suggests extending standard models of institutionalized policymaking to allow for a wider set of actions, including the threat of violence or of damage to the economy. It engages the discussion of ins…
The Politics of Federalism in Argentina and its Implications for Governance and Accountability
Congressional Institutionalization: A Cross‐National Comparison
This article explains variations in levels of institutionalization across legislatures of the world. It construes institutionalization as an equilibrium outcome that emerges from beliefs and investments made by political actors. Drawing insights from work on US congressional institutionalization and congressional organization, and on comparative party system institutionalization, it provides an index to measure congressional institutionalization.…
On the credibility of alternative exchange rate regimes
Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes, and sheds light to the determinants of lobbying in separation-of-powers systems. We provide conditions for judicial decisions to be sensitive to legislat…
Veto players and policy adaptability: An intertemporal perspective
The capacity to sustain policies over time and the capacity to adjust policies in the face of changing circumstances are two desirable properties of policymaking systems. Veto player theory, a very influential approach in comparative politics, has suggested that polities with more veto players will have the capacity to sustain policies at the expense of the ability to change policy when necessary. This paper argues that once intertemporal conside…
Latin America: How State Capacity Determines Policy Success
Most countries in Latin America tend to chart similar courses through the different fashions of advice coming from development agencies and the varieties of political winds that blow across the region. In recent decades, we have seen pendulum swings from inward-looking developmental statism to neoliberal market-oriented reforms. Then, when the neoliberal reforms did not deliver what they had promised, the pendulum in many countries has recently s…
The Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 2006 Report
This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are presented in an analytical framework to help explain why policies that work in certain institutional environments may not work in others. The focus of this report is not the content of policies, or their effects on major economic and social variables, but …
Expectativas frustradas: El Ciclo De La Convertibilidad
El trabajo estudia el proceso que llevo a la crisis de la economia argentina. El analisis se concentra en la secuencia de decisiones, publicas y privadas, y en las cambiantes percepciones e incentivos que las motivaron. En los anos noventa, la Argentina busco definir un nuevo sendero de crecimiento. Durante buena parte del periodo de la convertibilidad, el comportamiento de los agentes (internos y externos) parecio basarse en la prevision de que …
El funcionamiento de las instituciones políticas y las políticas públicas en la Argentina: Una Aproximación Desde La Nueva Economía Institucional
Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: Prognosis of the longer-run persistence of Covid-19 in Latin America
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09501-x
Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America
Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America. By Alberto Díaz-Cayeros. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 302p. $80.00. Comparative federalism is a vibrant area of research, at the crossroads of various methodological and disciplinary approaches, and it has contributed to and enriched broader strands of scholarship in comparative politics and institutional analysis. Alberto Díaz-Cayeros has been one of the leading ne…
Instituciones y resultados fiscales
The new economics of human behavior
This 1995 volume views important social and political issues through the eyes of economists. Pioneered by Gary Becker, this approach asserts that all actions, whether working, playing, dating, or mating, have economic motivations and consequences, and can be analysed using economic reasoning. Intended as an introduction to the current state of the field, the essays are informal and non-technical, while still using up-to-date economic reasoning to…
On the credibility of alternative exchange rate regimes
The New Economics of Human Behavior
Instituciones y resultados fiscales
Politics, institutions, and fiscal performance in a federal system: An analysis of the Argentine provinces
El funcionamiento de las instituciones políticas y las políticas públicas en la Argentina: Una Aproximación Desde La Nueva Economía Institucional
Judicial Independence in Unstable Environments, Argentina 1935-1998
Argentina's constitution and electoral rules promote a fragmented polity. It is in those environments that inde- pendent judiciaries develop. Instead, most analysts do not consider the Argentina judiciary as independent. In this article we attempt to explain this contradiction by showing that this perception is inappropriate. We de- velop a test of the hypothesis that the judiciary is independent by empiri- cally examining the political incen- ti…
Amateur Legislators -- Professional Politicians: The Consequences of Party-Centered Electoral Rules in a Federal System
The Argentine Congress plays a limited role in the production of public policy and is a relatively ineffective check on the Argentine Executive Branch. We argue this is the combined result of incentives created by several features of Argentine political institutions. In this article we emphasize the role of the country's electoral rules, which place the legislator re? election decision not in the hands of the voters, but rather in the hands of th…
Expectativas frustradas: El Ciclo De La Convertibilidad
El trabajo estudia el proceso que llevo a la crisis de la economia argentina. El analisis se concentra en la secuencia de decisiones, publicas y privadas, y en las cambiantes percepciones e incentivos que las motivaron. En los anos noventa, la Argentina busco definir un nuevo sendero de crecimiento. Durante buena parte del periodo de la convertibilidad, el comportamiento de los agentes (internos y externos) parecio basarse en la prevision de que …
The Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 2006 Report
This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are presented in an analytical framework to help explain why policies that work in certain institutional environments may not work in others. The focus of this report is not the content of policies, or their effects on major economic and social variables, but …
Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes, and sheds light to the determinants of lobbying in separation-of-powers systems. We provide conditions for judicial decisions to be sensitive to legislat…
Principal-Agent Contracts under the Threat of Insurance
We show that standard principal-agent results are not robust to the introduction of additional contracting opportunities for the agent. We analyze extended games including additional players who might trade risk away from the agent. For some settings and parameter values, the principal is worse off, and total welfare is lower. In some cases lower effort is implemented. The principal's contract, when high effort is implemented, is steeper than in …
Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America
Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America. By Alberto Díaz-Cayeros. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 302p. $80.00. Comparative federalism is a vibrant area of research, at the crossroads of various methodological and disciplinary approaches, and it has contributed to and enriched broader strands of scholarship in comparative politics and institutional analysis. Alberto Díaz-Cayeros has been one of the leading ne…
New Economics of Human Behaviour
The economic approach to democracy
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Winston Churchill
How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking
Over the past 30 years, democratic freedoms and competitive electoral processes have taken hold as never before in Latin America. How Democracy Works takes a detailed look, from an institutional perspective, at each of the main actors on the policymaking stage in Latin America, emphasizing the extent to which institutions facilitate or hinder intertemporal political cooperation and compromise. It analyzes official political actors and arenas, as …
Political Institutions and Street Protests in Latin America
In this article, the authors argue that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. The authors explore this relationship empirically by combining country-level measures of institutional strength with individual-level information on protest participation in s…
Latin America: How State Capacity Determines Policy Success
Most countries in Latin America tend to chart similar courses through the different fashions of advice coming from development agencies and the varieties of political winds that blow across the region. In recent decades, we have seen pendulum swings from inward-looking developmental statism to neoliberal market-oriented reforms. Then, when the neoliberal reforms did not deliver what they had promised, the pendulum in many countries has recently s…
The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not
This article attempts to build bridges in the formal study of policymaking across polities of different degrees of institutional development. It explores the reasons why policymaking is fairly institutionalized in some polities but not in others. It suggests extending standard models of institutionalized policymaking to allow for a wider set of actions, including the threat of violence or of damage to the economy. It engages the discussion of ins…
The Politics of Federalism in Argentina and its Implications for Governance and Accountability
Veto players and policy adaptability: An intertemporal perspective
The capacity to sustain policies over time and the capacity to adjust policies in the face of changing circumstances are two desirable properties of policymaking systems. Veto player theory, a very influential approach in comparative politics, has suggested that polities with more veto players will have the capacity to sustain policies at the expense of the ability to change policy when necessary. This paper argues that once intertemporal conside…
Congressional Institutionalization: A Cross‐National Comparison
This article explains variations in levels of institutionalization across legislatures of the world. It construes institutionalization as an equilibrium outcome that emerges from beliefs and investments made by political actors. Drawing insights from work on US congressional institutionalization and congressional organization, and on comparative party system institutionalization, it provides an index to measure congressional institutionalization.…
Covid-19 and social protection of poor and vulnerable groups in Latin America: A conceptual framework
The growing crisis caused by the coronavirus disease pandemic has dire implications for Latin American societies. As is often the case, the most vulnerable sectors of society —especially those living in extreme poverty— are being hit the hardest. This article identifies strategies and specific responses designed to achieve three goals: (i) reduce epidemiological risks to save lives; (ii) protect livelihoods; and (iii) ensure human capital accumul…
Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: Prognosis of the longer-run persistence of Covid-19 in Latin America
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09501-x
Familia y desarrollo humano en el siglo XXI Revisión de la literatura internacional y apuntes para el caso argentino
La literatura moderna sobre desarrollo humano señala que cuanto más temprano en la vida de las personas se invierte en aumentar y equiparar habilidades, mayores las probabilidades de desarrollo humano y movilidad social. El desarrollo temprano de las personas está enmarcado en su contexto social más cercano, es decir, en la familia. La familia es el primer ámbito del desarrollo humano y también de la desigualdad. Es fundamental estudiar a las fam…
Political science (20 works) · Economics (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Latin Americans (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works)