Francisco Panizza
Biographic Data
| ID | 297923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Panizza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Panizza |
| SIGNATURE | PANIZZA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3755-9209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
América Latina en la era de los descontentos
The article's argument is that the world has entered a turning point it calls “the era of discontents,” characterized by political volatility and the rise of various forms of populism. While governing has become more challenging in the era of discontents in advanced economies, the same – and even more so – applies to Latin America. In this context, three crises characterize the region: a development crisis, a growth crisis, and a crisis of repres…
How Populists Governed the Covid-19 Pandemic: Populist Governance and Social Policies in Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Russia and Turkey
How did populist governments handle the COVID-19 pandemic? Did they act as erratic, irrational and unsound – in short: ‘populist’ – as observers expected them to do? Through which social policies did they respond to the hardships caused by the pandemic? And, what does populist governance explain about these governments’ social policies? This article explores these questions through a comparative analysis of a diverse set of six populist governmen…
Populism in Global Perspective
Roles, trust and skills: A typology of patronage appointments
This article contributes to the study of the politics of patronage appointments by creating a typology of patronage roles based on the nature of trust between patrons and appointees and on the skills patrons seek in appointees. Our classification brings together the dispersed literature on patronage roles and can be applied to the study of modalities of patronage across and within countries. We offer preliminary evidence from our study of the pol…
Unpacking Patronage: The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Argentina's and Uruguay's Central Public Administrations
This study makes the following contributions to the study of the politics of patronage appointments in Latin America: Conceptually it adopts Kopecký, Scherlis, and Spirova's (2008) distinction between clientelistic and nonclientelistic types of patronage politics and widens these authors classification of patrons’ motivations for making appointments, specifically as a lens for the study of patronage practices within Latin America's presidentialis…
Populism and Identification
This chapter discusses relations between populism, identity, and identification, defining populism as a mode of political identification that constructs and gives meaning to “the people” as a political actor. It critically adopts a discursive approach to populism represented, among others, by the works of Ernesto Laclau, as well as the socio-cultural approach of Pierre Ostiguy, in order to show how populist identities are created and how populist…
Party patronage in contemporary democracies: Results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions
This Research Note presents a new dataset of party patronage in 22 countries from five regions. The data was collected using the same methodology to compare patterns of patronage within countries, across countries and across world regions that are usually studied separately. The Note addresses three research questions that are at the centre of debates on party patronage, which is understood as the power of political parties to make appointments t…
Ernesto Laclau (1935–2014)
Intervenciones, identidades e instituciones populistas
En el Repositorio Institucional Séneca están depositados materiales en formato digital fruto de la producción científica o académica, de esta manera permite almacenar, difundir y preservar información de vital importancia
Taking Discourse Seriously: Discursive Institutionalism and Post-structuralist Discourse Theory
The article seeks to add to the growing contribution of discursive approaches to the study of political institutions by analysing the possibilities for cross-fertilisation between discursive institutionalism and post-structuralist discourse theory. Analysing Vivien Schmidt's version of discursive institutionalism, it argues that Schmidt's concept of discourse results in a model of explanation of institutional change that overlooks questions about…
Democracy, Agency, and the State: Theory with Comparative Intent - by O'Donnell, Guillermo
Populism and Democracy in Latin America
Paraphrasing Karl Marx, a specter is haunting Latin America—the specter of “populism.” This label has been attached to a wave of radical left leaders in the region, including Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. The term is normatively charged. The Mexican politician and scholar Jorge Castañeda contrasts radical populist leaders (such as Chávez and Morales), whom he characterizes as less convinced of the…
Argentina. Stories for a Nation by Amy K. Kaminsky
Economic Constraints and Strategic Choices: The Case of the Frente Amplio of Uruguay's First Year in Office
The article analyses the economic constraints and strategic choices that shaped the economic policies of the Frente Amplio of Uruguay's first year in office. It argues that the economic strategy of the Frente Amplio's administration can be described as the adoption, completion and correction of the incomplete free market reforms enacted by previous right of centre administrations and that this strategy can be explained as the product of two inter…
Parties, Democracy and Grounded Utopias: A Reply to Sara Motta
The article is a reply to Sara Motta's article ‘Utopias Re-imagined: A Reply to Panizza’ in this journal. It discusses the relations between representative and participatory democracy in Latin America in the light of Motta's vindication of different forms of participatory democracy. It argues that when analysing the advances of the left and the centre-left in contemporary Latin America it is difficult to ignore the strategic role played by left-o…
Democracy in Latin America 1760-1900. Volume I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru - Carlos Forment
The Social Democratisation of the Latin American Left
nnb
Unarmed Utopia Revisited: The Resurgence of Left-of-Centre Politics in Latin America
This paper seeks to examine the extent to which left-wing forces are making a comeback in Latin America and to draw out the political implications of their political ascendancy. It argues that while left-of-centre parties have developed a persuasive critique of the failures of liberal democracy and economic neoliberalism in the region, there is as yet no conceptual clarity or distinct policy initiatives materialising from the left's promises of d…
Second Generation Reform in Latin America: Reforming the public sector in Uruguay and Mexico
Uruguay and Mexico have both passed laws aiming to professionalise the public sector bureaucracy according to what might be considered 'second generation' reform principles. They did so under what might initially have seemed to be politically unpropitious circumstances. The reforms might have been vetoed by interests that feared that they would lose out from the changes, but were not. They might have been blocked by conditions of minority preside…
Brazil Needs to Change: Change as Iteration and the Iteration of Change in Brazil's 2002 Presidential Election1
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's triumph in Brazil's 2002 presidential election was construed in terms of a promise of radical change against the holders of thestatus quo. This article argues that in fact a more subtle political game was a stake in the election, a contest over the meaning and limits of change itself. The article examines how the various players - Lula da Silva, outgoing president Fernando Henrique Cardoso and the PSDB's presidential c…
A Reform without Losers: The Symbolic Economy of Civil Service Reform in Uruguay, 1995-96
This article analyzes the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions in the 1996 reform of the civil service in Uruguay. Beneath the appearance of a process led by technocratic principles, the reform's agenda and content were shaped by legitimating principles, strongly institutionalized interests, and the political legacy of earlier failed reform attempts. Reformers sought a strategy of a reform "without losers," which, instead of ga…
Is Brazil becoming a “boring” country
The article looks at the condition of Brazil's political system in light of the 1998 electoral results. It critically examines arguments that electoral volatility, political fragmentation and weak institutionalisation have produced a highly unstable political system unsuitable for sound policy‐making and processing change. While not underestimating the influence of electoral rules, it argues that given the combination of political, institutional …
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
The election of Fernando Collor de Mello as President of Brazil in 1989 was regarded as part of a new wave of neopopulist leaders in contemporary Latin America. The article explores the conditions of emergence of Collor's neopopulist project, the nature of his appeal and the causes of his downfall. The article argues that the emergence of Collor's neopopulist challenge was the result of a crisis of representation in Brazil's edging democratic ord…
Beyond 'Delegative Democracy: Old Politics' and 'New Economics' in Latin America
For around 15 years Latin America has been undergoing an unprecedented conjunction of political and economic change, from authoritarianism to democracy and from a state-centred matrix of economic development towards free-market economies. This article takes up the theme of the links between politics and economic change in contemporary Latin America. More specifically, it examines the relation between 'old politics' and 'new economics'. It has two…
New wine in old bottles? Old and New Populism in Latin America
Unarmed Utopia Revisited: The Resurgence of Left-of-Centre Politics in Latin America
This paper seeks to examine the extent to which left-wing forces are making a comeback in Latin America and to draw out the political implications of their political ascendancy. It argues that while left-of-centre parties have developed a persuasive critique of the failures of liberal democracy and economic neoliberalism in the region, there is as yet no conceptual clarity or distinct policy initiatives materialising from the left's promises of d…
Party patronage in contemporary democracies: Results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions
This Research Note presents a new dataset of party patronage in 22 countries from five regions. The data was collected using the same methodology to compare patterns of patronage within countries, across countries and across world regions that are usually studied separately. The Note addresses three research questions that are at the centre of debates on party patronage, which is understood as the power of political parties to make appointments t…
Roles, trust and skills: A typology of patronage appointments
This article contributes to the study of the politics of patronage appointments by creating a typology of patronage roles based on the nature of trust between patrons and appointees and on the skills patrons seek in appointees. Our classification brings together the dispersed literature on patronage roles and can be applied to the study of modalities of patronage across and within countries. We offer preliminary evidence from our study of the pol…
Taking Discourse Seriously: Discursive Institutionalism and Post-structuralist Discourse Theory
The article seeks to add to the growing contribution of discursive approaches to the study of political institutions by analysing the possibilities for cross-fertilisation between discursive institutionalism and post-structuralist discourse theory. Analysing Vivien Schmidt's version of discursive institutionalism, it argues that Schmidt's concept of discourse results in a model of explanation of institutional change that overlooks questions about…
Unpacking Patronage: The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Argentina's and Uruguay's Central Public Administrations
This study makes the following contributions to the study of the politics of patronage appointments in Latin America: Conceptually it adopts Kopecký, Scherlis, and Spirova's (2008) distinction between clientelistic and nonclientelistic types of patronage politics and widens these authors classification of patrons’ motivations for making appointments, specifically as a lens for the study of patronage practices within Latin America's presidentialis…
Populism and Democracy in Latin America
Paraphrasing Karl Marx, a specter is haunting Latin America—the specter of “populism.” This label has been attached to a wave of radical left leaders in the region, including Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. The term is normatively charged. The Mexican politician and scholar Jorge Castañeda contrasts radical populist leaders (such as Chávez and Morales), whom he characterizes as less convinced of the…
Beyond 'Delegative Democracy: Old Politics' and 'New Economics' in Latin America
For around 15 years Latin America has been undergoing an unprecedented conjunction of political and economic change, from authoritarianism to democracy and from a state-centred matrix of economic development towards free-market economies. This article takes up the theme of the links between politics and economic change in contemporary Latin America. More specifically, it examines the relation between 'old politics' and 'new economics'. It has two…
The politics of human rights in democratic Brazil: A lei não pega
In spite of the important democratic advances registered since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985, widespread human rights violations associated with the right to life continue to be reported. This article examines the nature of human rights violations and the government's attitude to them. Since 1985 there has been a fundamental shift in the relationship between the perpetrators of violations and the state authorities, in the identity of the v…
Late Institutionalisation and Early Modernisation: The Emergence of Uruguay's Liberal Democratic Political Order
The way in which ruling elites originally responded to pressures for increasing mass participation in the polity is one of the most crucial variables in the path to democracy. In the case of Uruguay, the first two decades of the century – a period dominated by the historical figure of José Batlle y Ordoñez, – were crucial in the setting up of democratic institutions. During this period, because of its late consolidation as much as its early moder…
Human Rights in the Processes of Transition and Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America
The Social Democratisation of the Latin American Left
nnb
Brazil Needs to Change: Change as Iteration and the Iteration of Change in Brazil's 2002 Presidential Election1
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's triumph in Brazil's 2002 presidential election was construed in terms of a promise of radical change against the holders of thestatus quo. This article argues that in fact a more subtle political game was a stake in the election, a contest over the meaning and limits of change itself. The article examines how the various players - Lula da Silva, outgoing president Fernando Henrique Cardoso and the PSDB's presidential c…
Second Generation Reform in Latin America: Reforming the public sector in Uruguay and Mexico
Uruguay and Mexico have both passed laws aiming to professionalise the public sector bureaucracy according to what might be considered 'second generation' reform principles. They did so under what might initially have seemed to be politically unpropitious circumstances. The reforms might have been vetoed by interests that feared that they would lose out from the changes, but were not. They might have been blocked by conditions of minority preside…
Economic Constraints and Strategic Choices: The Case of the Frente Amplio of Uruguay's First Year in Office
The article analyses the economic constraints and strategic choices that shaped the economic policies of the Frente Amplio of Uruguay's first year in office. It argues that the economic strategy of the Frente Amplio's administration can be described as the adoption, completion and correction of the incomplete free market reforms enacted by previous right of centre administrations and that this strategy can be explained as the product of two inter…
A Reform without Losers: The Symbolic Economy of Civil Service Reform in Uruguay, 1995-96
This article analyzes the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions in the 1996 reform of the civil service in Uruguay. Beneath the appearance of a process led by technocratic principles, the reform's agenda and content were shaped by legitimating principles, strongly institutionalized interests, and the political legacy of earlier failed reform attempts. Reformers sought a strategy of a reform "without losers," which, instead of ga…
Democracy, Agency, and the State: Theory with Comparative Intent - by O'Donnell, Guillermo
Parties, Democracy and Grounded Utopias: A Reply to Sara Motta
The article is a reply to Sara Motta's article ‘Utopias Re-imagined: A Reply to Panizza’ in this journal. It discusses the relations between representative and participatory democracy in Latin America in the light of Motta's vindication of different forms of participatory democracy. It argues that when analysing the advances of the left and the centre-left in contemporary Latin America it is difficult to ignore the strategic role played by left-o…
Human Rights: Global Culture and Social Fragmentation
There is no doubt that the struggle for human rights played a crucial role in most Latin American countries during the years of military rule. In many of these countries, human rights' organisations, together and often under the umbrella of the Church, were the only audible voice of opposition to govern? During the period of transition to democracy the human rights' debate was almost exclusively centred on the question ofthe punishment ofthe memb…
Intervenciones, identidades e instituciones populistas
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New wine in old bottles? Old and New Populism in Latin America
Types of Hegemonic Crisis and the Question of the Emergence of Authoritarian Regimes in the South of Latin America
Neste trabalho, o autor esboça um esquema teórico de sua pesquisa sobre o processo de deteriorização e colapso do sistema político uruguaio no contexto de emergência de outros regimes autoritários, no sul da América Latina. Com est objetivo: a) Estuda as análises econômicas de emergência daqueles regimes. b) Salienta a importância de distinguir entre condições de emergência dos regimes e sua subseqüente evolução. c) Propõe o conceito de hegemonia…
The Uruguayan election of 1984
Uruguay: Batllismo y después. Pacheco, militares y tupamaros en las crisis del Uruguay batllista
Human Rights: Global Culture and Social Fragmentation
There is no doubt that the struggle for human rights played a crucial role in most Latin American countries during the years of military rule. In many of these countries, human rights' organisations, together and often under the umbrella of the Church, were the only audible voice of opposition to govern? During the period of transition to democracy the human rights' debate was almost exclusively centred on the question ofthe punishment ofthe memb…
Democracy's Lost Treasure
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Human Rights in the Processes of Transition and Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America
Late Institutionalisation and Early Modernisation: The Emergence of Uruguay's Liberal Democratic Political Order
The way in which ruling elites originally responded to pressures for increasing mass participation in the polity is one of the most crucial variables in the path to democracy. In the case of Uruguay, the first two decades of the century – a period dominated by the historical figure of José Batlle y Ordoñez, – were crucial in the setting up of democratic institutions. During this period, because of its late consolidation as much as its early moder…
The politics of human rights in democratic Brazil: A lei não pega
In spite of the important democratic advances registered since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985, widespread human rights violations associated with the right to life continue to be reported. This article examines the nature of human rights violations and the government's attitude to them. Since 1985 there has been a fundamental shift in the relationship between the perpetrators of violations and the state authorities, in the identity of the v…
Is Brazil becoming a “boring” country
The article looks at the condition of Brazil's political system in light of the 1998 electoral results. It critically examines arguments that electoral volatility, political fragmentation and weak institutionalisation have produced a highly unstable political system unsuitable for sound policy‐making and processing change. While not underestimating the influence of electoral rules, it argues that given the combination of political, institutional …
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
The election of Fernando Collor de Mello as President of Brazil in 1989 was regarded as part of a new wave of neopopulist leaders in contemporary Latin America. The article explores the conditions of emergence of Collor's neopopulist project, the nature of his appeal and the causes of his downfall. The article argues that the emergence of Collor's neopopulist challenge was the result of a crisis of representation in Brazil's edging democratic ord…
Beyond 'Delegative Democracy: Old Politics' and 'New Economics' in Latin America
For around 15 years Latin America has been undergoing an unprecedented conjunction of political and economic change, from authoritarianism to democracy and from a state-centred matrix of economic development towards free-market economies. This article takes up the theme of the links between politics and economic change in contemporary Latin America. More specifically, it examines the relation between 'old politics' and 'new economics'. It has two…
New wine in old bottles? Old and New Populism in Latin America
Brazil Needs to Change: Change as Iteration and the Iteration of Change in Brazil's 2002 Presidential Election1
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's triumph in Brazil's 2002 presidential election was construed in terms of a promise of radical change against the holders of thestatus quo. This article argues that in fact a more subtle political game was a stake in the election, a contest over the meaning and limits of change itself. The article examines how the various players - Lula da Silva, outgoing president Fernando Henrique Cardoso and the PSDB's presidential c…
A Reform without Losers: The Symbolic Economy of Civil Service Reform in Uruguay, 1995-96
This article analyzes the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions in the 1996 reform of the civil service in Uruguay. Beneath the appearance of a process led by technocratic principles, the reform's agenda and content were shaped by legitimating principles, strongly institutionalized interests, and the political legacy of earlier failed reform attempts. Reformers sought a strategy of a reform "without losers," which, instead of ga…
The Social Democratisation of the Latin American Left
nnb
Unarmed Utopia Revisited: The Resurgence of Left-of-Centre Politics in Latin America
This paper seeks to examine the extent to which left-wing forces are making a comeback in Latin America and to draw out the political implications of their political ascendancy. It argues that while left-of-centre parties have developed a persuasive critique of the failures of liberal democracy and economic neoliberalism in the region, there is as yet no conceptual clarity or distinct policy initiatives materialising from the left's promises of d…
Second Generation Reform in Latin America: Reforming the public sector in Uruguay and Mexico
Uruguay and Mexico have both passed laws aiming to professionalise the public sector bureaucracy according to what might be considered 'second generation' reform principles. They did so under what might initially have seemed to be politically unpropitious circumstances. The reforms might have been vetoed by interests that feared that they would lose out from the changes, but were not. They might have been blocked by conditions of minority preside…
Democracy in Latin America 1760-1900. Volume I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru - Carlos Forment
Parties, Democracy and Grounded Utopias: A Reply to Sara Motta
The article is a reply to Sara Motta's article ‘Utopias Re-imagined: A Reply to Panizza’ in this journal. It discusses the relations between representative and participatory democracy in Latin America in the light of Motta's vindication of different forms of participatory democracy. It argues that when analysing the advances of the left and the centre-left in contemporary Latin America it is difficult to ignore the strategic role played by left-o…
Economic Constraints and Strategic Choices: The Case of the Frente Amplio of Uruguay's First Year in Office
The article analyses the economic constraints and strategic choices that shaped the economic policies of the Frente Amplio of Uruguay's first year in office. It argues that the economic strategy of the Frente Amplio's administration can be described as the adoption, completion and correction of the incomplete free market reforms enacted by previous right of centre administrations and that this strategy can be explained as the product of two inter…
Populism and Democracy in Latin America
Paraphrasing Karl Marx, a specter is haunting Latin America—the specter of “populism.” This label has been attached to a wave of radical left leaders in the region, including Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador. The term is normatively charged. The Mexican politician and scholar Jorge Castañeda contrasts radical populist leaders (such as Chávez and Morales), whom he characterizes as less convinced of the…
Argentina. Stories for a Nation by Amy K. Kaminsky
Taking Discourse Seriously: Discursive Institutionalism and Post-structuralist Discourse Theory
The article seeks to add to the growing contribution of discursive approaches to the study of political institutions by analysing the possibilities for cross-fertilisation between discursive institutionalism and post-structuralist discourse theory. Analysing Vivien Schmidt's version of discursive institutionalism, it argues that Schmidt's concept of discourse results in a model of explanation of institutional change that overlooks questions about…
Democracy, Agency, and the State: Theory with Comparative Intent - by O'Donnell, Guillermo
Intervenciones, identidades e instituciones populistas
En el Repositorio Institucional Séneca están depositados materiales en formato digital fruto de la producción científica o académica, de esta manera permite almacenar, difundir y preservar información de vital importancia
Political science (29 works) · Politics (28 works) · Law (26 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Democracy (15 works) · Latin Americans (14 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Economics (10 works)