Jorge P Gordin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jorge P Gordin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jorge P |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordin |
| SIGNATURE | GORDIN J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9075-2120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consenting to Centralization? Comparing the Subnational Delegation and Abdication of Fiscal Authority in Argentina and Australia
Grassroots fiscal centralization
The concept of delegation offers scholars of federalism a novel analytical framework for examining previously overlooked aspects of fiscal centralization. Adopting a bottom-up approach, we develop a taxonomy of delegation types to assess the dynamic evolution and feedback effects of key milestones of fiscal centralization in Argentina, a developing federation with institutionally strong provinces that have increasingly surrendered revenue authori…
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralisation in Argentina
What accounts for the varying and increasing levels of centralisation in federal systems? This article contributes to this debate showing that, despite normative and theoretical arguments on the advantages of decentralised fiscal federalism, changing economic conditions and governance hurdles prompt an increasing trend towards executive fiscal centralisation. It seeks to unravel this theoretical riddle by proposing the concept of delegative feder…
The Price of Institutional Design
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Federalism and the politics of fiscal responsibility laws
This article advances an institutionalist perspective to address a subset of issues that led to the relative success of Brazil and the absolute failure of Argentina in confronting the financial crisis of the late 1990s. It adds to the literature on the politics of fiscal federalism, documenting that fiscal crises prompt policy responses whose effects are mediated by institutional choice and the broader political dynamics and the incentives both g…
Neoliberalismo y democracia en América Latina
La relación entre neoliberalismo y democracia es uno de los temas que más atención ha recibido en las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas en los últimos diez años. Con contadas excepciones, el lector es generalmente enfrentado con dos enfoques básicos: mientras que algunos economistas enfatizan el impacto sectorial regresivo de la aplicación vernácula de políticas económicas de mercado, politólogos y sociólogos tienden a atribuir al neoliberalismo…
Regionalizing Patronage? Federal Resource Allocation and Party Politics in Spain
Does federalism enhance patronage practices? To the degree that subnational governments are responsible for significant portions of total public spending in politically decentralized systems, the study of the institutional facilitators of patronage can be fruitfully advanced by mapping out the territorial distribution of political and economic resources. Using data from intergovernmental transfers in Spain—an often-cited case of patronage-driven …
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, ‘Argentine Style
This study assesses the explanatory power of two competing views about intergovernmental fiscal transfers; one emphasizing the traditional neoclassical approach to federal-subnational fiscal relations and the other suggesting that transfers are contingent on the political fortunes and current political vulnerability of each level of government. These models are tested using data from Argentina, a federation exhibiting one of the most decentralise…
Testing Riker's Party-Based Theory of Federalism
This study seeks to advance our understanding of the institutional underpinnings of federalism by evaluating William H. Riker's study of party causality. Using data from federal funds transfers in Argentina, a federation exhibiting high levels of fiscal decentralization despite its centralized party system, it is shown that when governorships are held by opposition parties, the overall amount of federal funds transferred to provinces increases co…
The political and partisan determinants of patronage in Latin America 1960–1994
Countries vary substantially in the level of political patronage exercised in their respective political systems. This article examines how hypotheses generated by the literature on economic, institutional‐partisan and electoral factors account for variation in the level of political patronage in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Political patronage – operationalized as the proportion of spending on personnel to total spending,…
The Electoral Fate of Ethnoregionalist Parties in Western Europe
In this study I argue that we need to rethink some theoretical and empirical considerations related to our understanding of ethnoregionalist (ETR) parties in Western Europe. Research has stressed the strong impact of structural attributes of political systems, mostly electoral systems with proportional representation (PR), on the electoral success of ETR parties. From applying Boolean analysis to compare 12 ETR parties with varied levels of elect…
The Electoral Fate of Ethnoregionalist Parties in Western Europe
In this study I argue that we need to rethink some theoretical and empirical considerations related to our understanding of ethnoregionalist (ETR) parties in Western Europe. Research has stressed the strong impact of structural attributes of political systems, mostly electoral systems with proportional representation (PR), on the electoral success of ETR parties. From applying Boolean analysis to compare 12 ETR parties with varied levels of elect…
The political and partisan determinants of patronage in Latin America 1960–1994
Countries vary substantially in the level of political patronage exercised in their respective political systems. This article examines how hypotheses generated by the literature on economic, institutional‐partisan and electoral factors account for variation in the level of political patronage in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Political patronage – operationalized as the proportion of spending on personnel to total spending,…
Testing Riker's Party-Based Theory of Federalism
This study seeks to advance our understanding of the institutional underpinnings of federalism by evaluating William H. Riker's study of party causality. Using data from federal funds transfers in Argentina, a federation exhibiting high levels of fiscal decentralization despite its centralized party system, it is shown that when governorships are held by opposition parties, the overall amount of federal funds transferred to provinces increases co…
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, ‘Argentine Style
This study assesses the explanatory power of two competing views about intergovernmental fiscal transfers; one emphasizing the traditional neoclassical approach to federal-subnational fiscal relations and the other suggesting that transfers are contingent on the political fortunes and current political vulnerability of each level of government. These models are tested using data from Argentina, a federation exhibiting one of the most decentralise…
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralisation in Argentina
What accounts for the varying and increasing levels of centralisation in federal systems? This article contributes to this debate showing that, despite normative and theoretical arguments on the advantages of decentralised fiscal federalism, changing economic conditions and governance hurdles prompt an increasing trend towards executive fiscal centralisation. It seeks to unravel this theoretical riddle by proposing the concept of delegative feder…
The Price of Institutional Design
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Federalism and the politics of fiscal responsibility laws
This article advances an institutionalist perspective to address a subset of issues that led to the relative success of Brazil and the absolute failure of Argentina in confronting the financial crisis of the late 1990s. It adds to the literature on the politics of fiscal federalism, documenting that fiscal crises prompt policy responses whose effects are mediated by institutional choice and the broader political dynamics and the incentives both g…
The Electoral Fate of Ethnoregionalist Parties in Western Europe
In this study I argue that we need to rethink some theoretical and empirical considerations related to our understanding of ethnoregionalist (ETR) parties in Western Europe. Research has stressed the strong impact of structural attributes of political systems, mostly electoral systems with proportional representation (PR), on the electoral success of ETR parties. From applying Boolean analysis to compare 12 ETR parties with varied levels of elect…
The political and partisan determinants of patronage in Latin America 1960–1994
Countries vary substantially in the level of political patronage exercised in their respective political systems. This article examines how hypotheses generated by the literature on economic, institutional‐partisan and electoral factors account for variation in the level of political patronage in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Political patronage – operationalized as the proportion of spending on personnel to total spending,…
Testing Riker's Party-Based Theory of Federalism
This study seeks to advance our understanding of the institutional underpinnings of federalism by evaluating William H. Riker's study of party causality. Using data from federal funds transfers in Argentina, a federation exhibiting high levels of fiscal decentralization despite its centralized party system, it is shown that when governorships are held by opposition parties, the overall amount of federal funds transferred to provinces increases co…
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, ‘Argentine Style
This study assesses the explanatory power of two competing views about intergovernmental fiscal transfers; one emphasizing the traditional neoclassical approach to federal-subnational fiscal relations and the other suggesting that transfers are contingent on the political fortunes and current political vulnerability of each level of government. These models are tested using data from Argentina, a federation exhibiting one of the most decentralise…
Regionalizing Patronage? Federal Resource Allocation and Party Politics in Spain
Does federalism enhance patronage practices? To the degree that subnational governments are responsible for significant portions of total public spending in politically decentralized systems, the study of the institutional facilitators of patronage can be fruitfully advanced by mapping out the territorial distribution of political and economic resources. Using data from intergovernmental transfers in Spain—an often-cited case of patronage-driven …
Neoliberalismo y democracia en América Latina
La relación entre neoliberalismo y democracia es uno de los temas que más atención ha recibido en las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas en los últimos diez años. Con contadas excepciones, el lector es generalmente enfrentado con dos enfoques básicos: mientras que algunos economistas enfatizan el impacto sectorial regresivo de la aplicación vernácula de políticas económicas de mercado, politólogos y sociólogos tienden a atribuir al neoliberalismo…
The Price of Institutional Design
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Federalism and the politics of fiscal responsibility laws
This article advances an institutionalist perspective to address a subset of issues that led to the relative success of Brazil and the absolute failure of Argentina in confronting the financial crisis of the late 1990s. It adds to the literature on the politics of fiscal federalism, documenting that fiscal crises prompt policy responses whose effects are mediated by institutional choice and the broader political dynamics and the incentives both g…
Delegative Federalism? Subnational Abdication and Executive Fiscal Centralisation in Argentina
What accounts for the varying and increasing levels of centralisation in federal systems? This article contributes to this debate showing that, despite normative and theoretical arguments on the advantages of decentralised fiscal federalism, changing economic conditions and governance hurdles prompt an increasing trend towards executive fiscal centralisation. It seeks to unravel this theoretical riddle by proposing the concept of delegative feder…
Consenting to Centralization? Comparing the Subnational Delegation and Abdication of Fiscal Authority in Argentina and Australia
Grassroots fiscal centralization
The concept of delegation offers scholars of federalism a novel analytical framework for examining previously overlooked aspects of fiscal centralization. Adopting a bottom-up approach, we develop a taxonomy of delegation types to assess the dynamic evolution and feedback effects of key milestones of fiscal centralization in Argentina, a developing federation with institutionally strong provinces that have increasingly surrendered revenue authori…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (8 works) · Decentralization (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · fiscal federalism (5 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (5 works)