Virginia Oliveros
Biographic Data
| ID | 236363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Oliveros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliveros |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVEROS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8335-1628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 237 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ignoring Women’s Performance
How does a politician’s gender shape citizen responses to performance in office? Much of the existing literature suggests that voters hold higher expectations of women politicians and are more likely to punish them for malfeasance. An alternative perspective suggests that voters view men politicians as more agentic and are, therefore, more responsive to their performance, whether good or bad. Using an online survey experiment in Argentina, we ran…
Argentina 2023
La elección del histriónico economista Javier Milei, autodenominado anarcocapitalista, un completo outsider con ideas ultraliberales en lo económico, conservadoras en lo social y con tintes autoritarios en relación a las instituciones democráticas, es sin duda una novedad para el sistema político argentino. En un contexto de crisis económica con una inflación interanual que superaba el 200%, la mayoría eligió a este outsider, cuya victoria parecí…
Credit Claiming by Labeling
We examine a phenomenon we call “credit claiming by labeling” in which a sitting politician places her name on a project, program, or policy with the goal of claiming credit for it. While the prevalence of this practice suggests that many politicians believe that credit claiming by labeling will aid their careers, there is little existing evidence on this question. We examine the effects of credit claiming by labeling with a survey experiment in …
Argentina 2021
En este artículo describimos los principales acontecimientos políticos de 2021 en Argentina. En un marco de crisis econÃ3mica y agotamiento de la poblaciÃ3n con la pandemia de COVID-19 y las medidas oficiales para combatirla, las elecciones legislativas de medio término resultaron en una derrota electoral para el gobierno del peronista Alberto Fernández. Fernández iniciÃ3 2021 con su popularidad en baja y una situaciÃ3n social y econÃ3mica deteri…
Derecha y democracia en América Latina
En este artculo exploramos, a nivel de la opinin pblica, la relacin entre el giro a la derecha y el backlash autoritario en Amrica Latina. Se puede hablar de un giro a la derecha a nivel de la opinin pblica? Cul es la relacin entre la ideologa de los individuos, particularmente la de aquellos que se identifican con la derecha, y el apego a la democracia? Son los individuos que se identifican con la "nueva derecha" menos democrticos que el resto d…
The Most Vulnerable Poor
Working for the Machine
Conventional wisdom posits that patronage jobs are distributed to supporters in exchange for political services. But why would public employees comply with the agreement and provide political services after receiving the job? Departing from existing explanations, I argue that patronage employees engage in political activities because their jobs are tied to their patrons' political survival. Supporters' jobs will be maintained by the incumbent, bu…
Lying About Corruption in Surveys
Lying About Corruption in Surveys: Evidence from a Joint Response Model Virginia Oliveros, Virginia Oliveros Political Science Department, Tulane University, USA All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Virginia Oliveros, PhD, Political Science Department, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, Norman Mayer Building, Room 311, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA. E-mail: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8335-16…
Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior
Bureaucratic behavior in developing countries remains poorly understood. Why do some public servants—yet not others—work hard to deliver public services, misuse state resources, and/or participate in electoral mobilization? A classic answer comes from Weber: Bureaucratic structures shift behavior toward integrity, neutrality, and commitment to public service. Our study conducts the first survey experimental test of the effects of bureaucratic str…
Mobilizing poor voters
Making it Personal
Corruption as a Self‐Fulfilling Prophecy
An influential literature argues that corruption behaves as a self‐fulfilling prophecy. Its central claim is that the individual returns to corruption are a function of the perceived corruptibility of the other members of society. Empirically, this implies that if one were to exogenously increase beliefs about societal levels of corruption, willingness to engage in corruption should also increase. We evaluate this implication by utilizing an info…
When to Protect? Using the Crosswise Model to Integrate Protected and Direct Responses in Surveys of Sensitive Behavior
Sensitive survey techniques (SSTs) are frequently used to study sensitive behaviors. However, existing strategies for employing SSTs lead to highly variable prevalence estimates and do not permit analysts to address the question of whether the use of an SST is actually necessary. The current article presents a survey questioning strategy and corresponding statistical framework that fills this gap. By jointly analyzing survey responses generated b…
Electoral Revolution or Democratic Alternation
Over the past few years, a burgeoning literature on Latin American politics has developed, focusing on explanations for the renewed success of the left in the region. Building on electoral trends and public opinion analysis, we argue that the region is experiencing the normalization of democratic politics rather than a backlash or a revolution. Furthermore, we believe that electoral support for the left reflects the disenchantment of voters with …
Corruption as a Self‐Fulfilling Prophecy
An influential literature argues that corruption behaves as a self‐fulfilling prophecy. Its central claim is that the individual returns to corruption are a function of the perceived corruptibility of the other members of society. Empirically, this implies that if one were to exogenously increase beliefs about societal levels of corruption, willingness to engage in corruption should also increase. We evaluate this implication by utilizing an info…
Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior
Bureaucratic behavior in developing countries remains poorly understood. Why do some public servants—yet not others—work hard to deliver public services, misuse state resources, and/or participate in electoral mobilization? A classic answer comes from Weber: Bureaucratic structures shift behavior toward integrity, neutrality, and commitment to public service. Our study conducts the first survey experimental test of the effects of bureaucratic str…
Making it Personal
When to Protect? Using the Crosswise Model to Integrate Protected and Direct Responses in Surveys of Sensitive Behavior
Sensitive survey techniques (SSTs) are frequently used to study sensitive behaviors. However, existing strategies for employing SSTs lead to highly variable prevalence estimates and do not permit analysts to address the question of whether the use of an SST is actually necessary. The current article presents a survey questioning strategy and corresponding statistical framework that fills this gap. By jointly analyzing survey responses generated b…
Working for the Machine
Conventional wisdom posits that patronage jobs are distributed to supporters in exchange for political services. But why would public employees comply with the agreement and provide political services after receiving the job? Departing from existing explanations, I argue that patronage employees engage in political activities because their jobs are tied to their patrons' political survival. Supporters' jobs will be maintained by the incumbent, bu…
The Most Vulnerable Poor
Lying About Corruption in Surveys
Lying About Corruption in Surveys: Evidence from a Joint Response Model Virginia Oliveros, Virginia Oliveros Political Science Department, Tulane University, USA All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Virginia Oliveros, PhD, Political Science Department, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, Norman Mayer Building, Room 311, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA. E-mail: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8335-16…
Credit Claiming by Labeling
We examine a phenomenon we call “credit claiming by labeling” in which a sitting politician places her name on a project, program, or policy with the goal of claiming credit for it. While the prevalence of this practice suggests that many politicians believe that credit claiming by labeling will aid their careers, there is little existing evidence on this question. We examine the effects of credit claiming by labeling with a survey experiment in …
Argentina 2021
En este artículo describimos los principales acontecimientos políticos de 2021 en Argentina. En un marco de crisis econÃ3mica y agotamiento de la poblaciÃ3n con la pandemia de COVID-19 y las medidas oficiales para combatirla, las elecciones legislativas de medio término resultaron en una derrota electoral para el gobierno del peronista Alberto Fernández. Fernández iniciÃ3 2021 con su popularidad en baja y una situaciÃ3n social y econÃ3mica deteri…
Argentina 2023
La elección del histriónico economista Javier Milei, autodenominado anarcocapitalista, un completo outsider con ideas ultraliberales en lo económico, conservadoras en lo social y con tintes autoritarios en relación a las instituciones democráticas, es sin duda una novedad para el sistema político argentino. En un contexto de crisis económica con una inflación interanual que superaba el 200%, la mayoría eligió a este outsider, cuya victoria parecí…
Electoral Revolution or Democratic Alternation
Over the past few years, a burgeoning literature on Latin American politics has developed, focusing on explanations for the renewed success of the left in the region. Building on electoral trends and public opinion analysis, we argue that the region is experiencing the normalization of democratic politics rather than a backlash or a revolution. Furthermore, we believe that electoral support for the left reflects the disenchantment of voters with …
When to Protect? Using the Crosswise Model to Integrate Protected and Direct Responses in Surveys of Sensitive Behavior
Sensitive survey techniques (SSTs) are frequently used to study sensitive behaviors. However, existing strategies for employing SSTs lead to highly variable prevalence estimates and do not permit analysts to address the question of whether the use of an SST is actually necessary. The current article presents a survey questioning strategy and corresponding statistical framework that fills this gap. By jointly analyzing survey responses generated b…
Mobilizing poor voters
Making it Personal
Corruption as a Self‐Fulfilling Prophecy
An influential literature argues that corruption behaves as a self‐fulfilling prophecy. Its central claim is that the individual returns to corruption are a function of the perceived corruptibility of the other members of society. Empirically, this implies that if one were to exogenously increase beliefs about societal levels of corruption, willingness to engage in corruption should also increase. We evaluate this implication by utilizing an info…
Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior
Bureaucratic behavior in developing countries remains poorly understood. Why do some public servants—yet not others—work hard to deliver public services, misuse state resources, and/or participate in electoral mobilization? A classic answer comes from Weber: Bureaucratic structures shift behavior toward integrity, neutrality, and commitment to public service. Our study conducts the first survey experimental test of the effects of bureaucratic str…
Lying About Corruption in Surveys
Lying About Corruption in Surveys: Evidence from a Joint Response Model Virginia Oliveros, Virginia Oliveros Political Science Department, Tulane University, USA All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Virginia Oliveros, PhD, Political Science Department, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, Norman Mayer Building, Room 311, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA. E-mail: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8335-16…
Derecha y democracia en América Latina
En este artculo exploramos, a nivel de la opinin pblica, la relacin entre el giro a la derecha y el backlash autoritario en Amrica Latina. Se puede hablar de un giro a la derecha a nivel de la opinin pblica? Cul es la relacin entre la ideologa de los individuos, particularmente la de aquellos que se identifican con la derecha, y el apego a la democracia? Son los individuos que se identifican con la "nueva derecha" menos democrticos que el resto d…
The Most Vulnerable Poor
Working for the Machine
Conventional wisdom posits that patronage jobs are distributed to supporters in exchange for political services. But why would public employees comply with the agreement and provide political services after receiving the job? Departing from existing explanations, I argue that patronage employees engage in political activities because their jobs are tied to their patrons' political survival. Supporters' jobs will be maintained by the incumbent, bu…
Argentina 2021
En este artículo describimos los principales acontecimientos políticos de 2021 en Argentina. En un marco de crisis econÃ3mica y agotamiento de la poblaciÃ3n con la pandemia de COVID-19 y las medidas oficiales para combatirla, las elecciones legislativas de medio término resultaron en una derrota electoral para el gobierno del peronista Alberto Fernández. Fernández iniciÃ3 2021 con su popularidad en baja y una situaciÃ3n social y econÃ3mica deteri…
Credit Claiming by Labeling
We examine a phenomenon we call “credit claiming by labeling” in which a sitting politician places her name on a project, program, or policy with the goal of claiming credit for it. While the prevalence of this practice suggests that many politicians believe that credit claiming by labeling will aid their careers, there is little existing evidence on this question. We examine the effects of credit claiming by labeling with a survey experiment in …
Argentina 2023
La elección del histriónico economista Javier Milei, autodenominado anarcocapitalista, un completo outsider con ideas ultraliberales en lo económico, conservadoras en lo social y con tintes autoritarios en relación a las instituciones democráticas, es sin duda una novedad para el sistema político argentino. En un contexto de crisis económica con una inflación interanual que superaba el 200%, la mayoría eligió a este outsider, cuya victoria parecí…
Ignoring Women’s Performance
How does a politician’s gender shape citizen responses to performance in office? Much of the existing literature suggests that voters hold higher expectations of women politicians and are more likely to punish them for malfeasance. An alternative perspective suggests that voters view men politicians as more agentic and are, therefore, more responsive to their performance, whether good or bad. Using an online survey experiment in Argentina, we ran…
Political science (13 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works)