Carlos Gervasoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 286733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos Gervasoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos |
| FAMILY NAME | Gervasoni |
| SIGNATURE | GERVASONI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Torcuato Di Tella |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1951-4346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 338 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Argentina 2024: El exitoso e inquietante primer año de Milei
Federalismo regresivo: Tensiones entre distribución territorial e interpersonal del ingreso en la Argentina
Se enfatizan tres características del federalismo argentino que conspiran contra la equidad distributiva. En primer lugar, nuestro federalismo y su muy alto malapportionment legislativo producen incentivos para que la agenda distributiva esté dominada por la distribución territorial de los recursos fiscales entre los gobiernos nacional y subnacionales, más que por la distribución interpersonal del ingreso. En segundo lugar, las desigualdades terr…
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: Evidence from 18 Latin-American countries
Extra- and within-system electoral volatility
We analyze the remarkable differences in the electoral success of new parties and compare the determinants of electoral volatility attributable to new versus established parties. We base our findings on an original data set of total volatility, extra-system volatility, and within-system volatility for 67 democratic countries across all regions of the world since 1945. The article makes three contributions. First, we show that it is important to d…
Inequality and the Altruistic Life: A Study of the Priestly Vocation Rate
This article takes the rate of new incorporations into the Catholic priesthood within national societies as a social fact revealing underlying societal tendencies of broad theoretical relevance extending well beyond the study of religion. Our emphasis lies on the impact of income inequality on the prevalence of altruistic life options. We examine cross-national and time-series variation in the priestly vocation rate as the empirical foundation to…
Measuring Variance in Subnational Regimes: Results from an Expert-Based Operationalization of Democracy in the Argentine Provinces
This paper presents an expert-based operationalization strategy to measure the degree of democracy in the Argentine provinces. Starting with a mainstream and “thick” definition of regime type, I assess each of its aspects using a subjective or perception-based approach that taps the knowledge of experts on the politics of each province. I present and justify the methodological design of the resulting Survey of Experts on Provincial Politics (SEPP…
A Rentier Theory of Subnational Regimes: Fiscal Federalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in the Argentine Provinces
Levels of subnational democracy vary significantly within countries around the world. Drawing on fiscal theories of the state, the author argues that this variance is often explained by a type of rentierism that is not geographically determined by natural resources but politically created by certain fiscal federalism arrangements. He posits that less democratic regimes are more likely in rentier provinces—those that receive disproportionately lar…
Two dimensions of democracy and the economy
Does democracy influence economic policymaking and outcomes? Our study investigates the implications of Dahl's two dimensions of democracy ('polyarchy'): contestation/competition and inclusion/participation. We hypothesize that increases in democratic competition inspire policy incrementalism, thus lowering growth volatility and generating fewer deep crises. Meanwhile, increases in substantive democratic inclusion – genuine political voice, or de…
From Patronage to Program: The Emergence of Party-Oriented Legislators in Brazil
This article explains the unanticipated emergence of party-oriented legislators and rising party discipline in Brazil since the early 1990s. The authors contend that deputies in Brazil became increasingly party oriented because the utilities of party-programmatic and patronage-based electoral strategies shifted with market reforms that created a programmatic cleavage in Brazilian politics and diminished the resource base for state patronage. The …
El impacto electoral de las reformas económicas en América Latina (1982-1995)
Los argumentos sobre la impopularidad de las políticas ortodoxas y de libre mercado en el mundo en desarrollo condujeron a muchos académicos a pensar que su implementación en los países democráticos de América Latina resultaría en un castigo electoral a los gobiernos (y, por lo tanto, implicaría la insostenibilidad de esas políticas). Una línea más reciente de la literatura plantea que los costos sociales y electorales de las políticas ortodoxas …
Reinventing Latin Economies
Menem: La Vida Privada (Menem: The Private Life)
A Rentier Theory of Subnational Regimes: Fiscal Federalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in the Argentine Provinces
Levels of subnational democracy vary significantly within countries around the world. Drawing on fiscal theories of the state, the author argues that this variance is often explained by a type of rentierism that is not geographically determined by natural resources but politically created by certain fiscal federalism arrangements. He posits that less democratic regimes are more likely in rentier provinces—those that receive disproportionately lar…
Extra- and within-system electoral volatility
We analyze the remarkable differences in the electoral success of new parties and compare the determinants of electoral volatility attributable to new versus established parties. We base our findings on an original data set of total volatility, extra-system volatility, and within-system volatility for 67 democratic countries across all regions of the world since 1945. The article makes three contributions. First, we show that it is important to d…
From Patronage to Program: The Emergence of Party-Oriented Legislators in Brazil
This article explains the unanticipated emergence of party-oriented legislators and rising party discipline in Brazil since the early 1990s. The authors contend that deputies in Brazil became increasingly party oriented because the utilities of party-programmatic and patronage-based electoral strategies shifted with market reforms that created a programmatic cleavage in Brazilian politics and diminished the resource base for state patronage. The …
Measuring Variance in Subnational Regimes: Results from an Expert-Based Operationalization of Democracy in the Argentine Provinces
This paper presents an expert-based operationalization strategy to measure the degree of democracy in the Argentine provinces. Starting with a mainstream and “thick” definition of regime type, I assess each of its aspects using a subjective or perception-based approach that taps the knowledge of experts on the politics of each province. I present and justify the methodological design of the resulting Survey of Experts on Provincial Politics (SEPP…
Two dimensions of democracy and the economy
Does democracy influence economic policymaking and outcomes? Our study investigates the implications of Dahl's two dimensions of democracy ('polyarchy'): contestation/competition and inclusion/participation. We hypothesize that increases in democratic competition inspire policy incrementalism, thus lowering growth volatility and generating fewer deep crises. Meanwhile, increases in substantive democratic inclusion – genuine political voice, or de…
Inequality and the Altruistic Life: A Study of the Priestly Vocation Rate
This article takes the rate of new incorporations into the Catholic priesthood within national societies as a social fact revealing underlying societal tendencies of broad theoretical relevance extending well beyond the study of religion. Our emphasis lies on the impact of income inequality on the prevalence of altruistic life options. We examine cross-national and time-series variation in the priestly vocation rate as the empirical foundation to…
El impacto electoral de las reformas económicas en América Latina (1982-1995)
Los argumentos sobre la impopularidad de las políticas ortodoxas y de libre mercado en el mundo en desarrollo condujeron a muchos académicos a pensar que su implementación en los países democráticos de América Latina resultaría en un castigo electoral a los gobiernos (y, por lo tanto, implicaría la insostenibilidad de esas políticas). Una línea más reciente de la literatura plantea que los costos sociales y electorales de las políticas ortodoxas …
Menem: La Vida Privada (Menem: The Private Life)
Reinventing Latin Economies
From Patronage to Program: The Emergence of Party-Oriented Legislators in Brazil
This article explains the unanticipated emergence of party-oriented legislators and rising party discipline in Brazil since the early 1990s. The authors contend that deputies in Brazil became increasingly party oriented because the utilities of party-programmatic and patronage-based electoral strategies shifted with market reforms that created a programmatic cleavage in Brazilian politics and diminished the resource base for state patronage. The …
El impacto electoral de las reformas económicas en América Latina (1982-1995)
Los argumentos sobre la impopularidad de las políticas ortodoxas y de libre mercado en el mundo en desarrollo condujeron a muchos académicos a pensar que su implementación en los países democráticos de América Latina resultaría en un castigo electoral a los gobiernos (y, por lo tanto, implicaría la insostenibilidad de esas políticas). Una línea más reciente de la literatura plantea que los costos sociales y electorales de las políticas ortodoxas …
Measuring Variance in Subnational Regimes: Results from an Expert-Based Operationalization of Democracy in the Argentine Provinces
This paper presents an expert-based operationalization strategy to measure the degree of democracy in the Argentine provinces. Starting with a mainstream and “thick” definition of regime type, I assess each of its aspects using a subjective or perception-based approach that taps the knowledge of experts on the politics of each province. I present and justify the methodological design of the resulting Survey of Experts on Provincial Politics (SEPP…
A Rentier Theory of Subnational Regimes: Fiscal Federalism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in the Argentine Provinces
Levels of subnational democracy vary significantly within countries around the world. Drawing on fiscal theories of the state, the author argues that this variance is often explained by a type of rentierism that is not geographically determined by natural resources but politically created by certain fiscal federalism arrangements. He posits that less democratic regimes are more likely in rentier provinces—those that receive disproportionately lar…
Two dimensions of democracy and the economy
Does democracy influence economic policymaking and outcomes? Our study investigates the implications of Dahl's two dimensions of democracy ('polyarchy'): contestation/competition and inclusion/participation. We hypothesize that increases in democratic competition inspire policy incrementalism, thus lowering growth volatility and generating fewer deep crises. Meanwhile, increases in substantive democratic inclusion – genuine political voice, or de…
Inequality and the Altruistic Life: A Study of the Priestly Vocation Rate
This article takes the rate of new incorporations into the Catholic priesthood within national societies as a social fact revealing underlying societal tendencies of broad theoretical relevance extending well beyond the study of religion. Our emphasis lies on the impact of income inequality on the prevalence of altruistic life options. We examine cross-national and time-series variation in the priestly vocation rate as the empirical foundation to…
Extra- and within-system electoral volatility
We analyze the remarkable differences in the electoral success of new parties and compare the determinants of electoral volatility attributable to new versus established parties. We base our findings on an original data set of total volatility, extra-system volatility, and within-system volatility for 67 democratic countries across all regions of the world since 1945. The article makes three contributions. First, we show that it is important to d…
Federalismo regresivo: Tensiones entre distribución territorial e interpersonal del ingreso en la Argentina
Se enfatizan tres características del federalismo argentino que conspiran contra la equidad distributiva. En primer lugar, nuestro federalismo y su muy alto malapportionment legislativo producen incentivos para que la agenda distributiva esté dominada por la distribución territorial de los recursos fiscales entre los gobiernos nacional y subnacionales, más que por la distribución interpersonal del ingreso. En segundo lugar, las desigualdades terr…
Economic dependence on the state and pro-authority attitudes: Evidence from 18 Latin-American countries
Argentina 2024: El exitoso e inquietante primer año de Milei
Political science (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)