Gabriel Levita
Biographic Data
| ID | 388163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Levita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Levita |
| SIGNATURE | LEVITA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional de Lanús |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4378-2076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Explaining How Subnational Politics Shapes Committee Assignment in a Federal Country
As in many federal countries, subnational politics is the cornerstone of Argentine political careers, and the Congress is a central point for multilevel politics. Although existing literature shows that local politics influence the behavior of congressmen, their effect on committee appointments has been scarcely studied. This article examines the committee assignments of former mayors and governors in the Argentine Congress from 2011 to 2019. We …
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
“Se hizo lo que se pudo”. El compromiso militante y sus límites en los jóvenes de un partido liberal (Mejorar, 2020)
Este artículo analiza el compromiso militante de los activistas de Impulsar, la juventud del partido Mejorar, cuya existencia tuvo lugar en el año 2020. Por medio de entrevistas en profundidad, observaciones participantes y no participantes en actividades partidarias y el análisis de redes sociales y documentos partidarios, reconstruimos la experiencia del partido y de sus militantes: su ingreso a la política, sus sociabilidades, su trabajo en la…
Assessing Congressional Institutionalization and Political Elites’ Renewal in Latin America Through Legislative Amateurism
Legislative experience, one of the various indicators of both congressional institutionalization and political elites’ renewal, has been mostly measured by either turnover or reelection. However, in regions such as Latin America, with more volatile and less institutionalized party systems, where most careers are not stable and ambitions are not mostly static, turnover and reelection may not be accurate measures of legislative experience. This pap…
Experts, aliens, and everyone in between
Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in Argentina's economy. Although most of the time congressional committees play a secondary role regarding agricultural policy, they become crucial in certain situations. In this article, we analyze the political economy of agriculture committee assignments in the Argentine Congress and the embeddedness of their members in the agricultural sector from 2001 to 2019. Conventional wisdom holds that in…
Profesionales, amateurs y gremialistas. Trayectorias y entradas a la política de los “agrodiputados” en el Congreso argentino
This article is framed into a political sociology of elites and looks into political entries in nowadays Argentina through the social, unionist and political trajectories of the Argentine national congressmen elected in 2009 who came from the agricultural entrepreneurs unions, known as “agrodiputados”. It achieves it from a qualitative perspective and using in-depth interviews and secondary sources. We show how these congressmen, who had been stu…
Lleguar a la Cámara de Diputados de Argentina “desde afuera”
Introdução: El presente artículo indaga desde una sociología política cualitativa las trayectorias sociales y los ingresos a la política partidaria de un conjunto de diputados nacionales argentinos que asumieron sus bancas después de 2007, tras haber acumulado recursos y reconocimiento en otros ámbitos profesionales. Materiales y Métodos: Reconstruimos sus trayectorias laborales, reclutamientos, entradas a la política y llegadas a la Cámara de Di…
Nacionalismos, Modernidades y política
La presente es una reseña crítica del Coloquio Internacional “Experiencias Nacionalistas desde la Postguerra: América Latina – Europa”. El mismo tuvo lugar el 22 y 23 de octubre de 2009 en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en el Centro Franco-Argentino de Altos Estudios de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y fue organizado por investigadores del Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL-PIETTE, CONICET) y de Approches Historiques des Mondes Contem…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Assessing Congressional Institutionalization and Political Elites’ Renewal in Latin America Through Legislative Amateurism
Legislative experience, one of the various indicators of both congressional institutionalization and political elites’ renewal, has been mostly measured by either turnover or reelection. However, in regions such as Latin America, with more volatile and less institutionalized party systems, where most careers are not stable and ambitions are not mostly static, turnover and reelection may not be accurate measures of legislative experience. This pap…
Profesionales, amateurs y gremialistas. Trayectorias y entradas a la política de los “agrodiputados” en el Congreso argentino
This article is framed into a political sociology of elites and looks into political entries in nowadays Argentina through the social, unionist and political trajectories of the Argentine national congressmen elected in 2009 who came from the agricultural entrepreneurs unions, known as “agrodiputados”. It achieves it from a qualitative perspective and using in-depth interviews and secondary sources. We show how these congressmen, who had been stu…
Nacionalismos, Modernidades y política
La presente es una reseña crítica del Coloquio Internacional “Experiencias Nacionalistas desde la Postguerra: América Latina – Europa”. El mismo tuvo lugar el 22 y 23 de octubre de 2009 en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en el Centro Franco-Argentino de Altos Estudios de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y fue organizado por investigadores del Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL-PIETTE, CONICET) y de Approches Historiques des Mondes Contem…
Lleguar a la Cámara de Diputados de Argentina “desde afuera”
Introdução: El presente artículo indaga desde una sociología política cualitativa las trayectorias sociales y los ingresos a la política partidaria de un conjunto de diputados nacionales argentinos que asumieron sus bancas después de 2007, tras haber acumulado recursos y reconocimiento en otros ámbitos profesionales. Materiales y Métodos: Reconstruimos sus trayectorias laborales, reclutamientos, entradas a la política y llegadas a la Cámara de Di…
Profesionales, amateurs y gremialistas. Trayectorias y entradas a la política de los “agrodiputados” en el Congreso argentino
This article is framed into a political sociology of elites and looks into political entries in nowadays Argentina through the social, unionist and political trajectories of the Argentine national congressmen elected in 2009 who came from the agricultural entrepreneurs unions, known as “agrodiputados”. It achieves it from a qualitative perspective and using in-depth interviews and secondary sources. We show how these congressmen, who had been stu…
Experts, aliens, and everyone in between
Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in Argentina's economy. Although most of the time congressional committees play a secondary role regarding agricultural policy, they become crucial in certain situations. In this article, we analyze the political economy of agriculture committee assignments in the Argentine Congress and the embeddedness of their members in the agricultural sector from 2001 to 2019. Conventional wisdom holds that in…
Assessing Congressional Institutionalization and Political Elites’ Renewal in Latin America Through Legislative Amateurism
Legislative experience, one of the various indicators of both congressional institutionalization and political elites’ renewal, has been mostly measured by either turnover or reelection. However, in regions such as Latin America, with more volatile and less institutionalized party systems, where most careers are not stable and ambitions are not mostly static, turnover and reelection may not be accurate measures of legislative experience. This pap…
“Se hizo lo que se pudo”. El compromiso militante y sus límites en los jóvenes de un partido liberal (Mejorar, 2020)
Este artículo analiza el compromiso militante de los activistas de Impulsar, la juventud del partido Mejorar, cuya existencia tuvo lugar en el año 2020. Por medio de entrevistas en profundidad, observaciones participantes y no participantes en actividades partidarias y el análisis de redes sociales y documentos partidarios, reconstruimos la experiencia del partido y de sus militantes: su ingreso a la política, sus sociabilidades, su trabajo en la…
Explaining How Subnational Politics Shapes Committee Assignment in a Federal Country
As in many federal countries, subnational politics is the cornerstone of Argentine political careers, and the Congress is a central point for multilevel politics. Although existing literature shows that local politics influence the behavior of congressmen, their effect on committee appointments has been scarcely studied. This article examines the committee assignments of former mayors and governors in the Argentine Congress from 2011 to 2019. We …
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Latin American socio-political dynamics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)