Luigi Manzetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 661685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luigi Manzetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luigi |
| FAMILY NAME | Manzetti |
| SIGNATURE | MANZETTI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5713-7564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Corruption and reforms: Are liberal democracies different
In this study we examine the impact on corruption of economic reforms, international linkages, and the interaction of past reforms with current international flows for a large group of countries over a period of more than three decades within a dynamic panel data framework. We consider two economic reforms (greater trade and financial openness) and their corresponding international linkages (international trade and foreign direct investment inten…
High-Tech Exports and Governance Institutions
There exists substantial evidence that technological innovation and, more specifically, innovation creating high-tech exports is a crucial driver for economic growth. However, there is less consensus about the factors that cause high-tech exports to thrive. Most studies emphasize the crucial role played by research and development expenditures, foreign direct investments, trade openness, human capital, and patents. In this article, we instead exa…
Poverty, Partisanship, and Vote Buying in Latin America
Electoral contests in Latin America are often characterized by attempts by political parties to sway the outcome of elections using vote buying-a practice that seems to persist during elections throughout the region. This article examines how clientelist parties' use of vote buying is jointly shaped by two voter traits: poverty and partisanship. We hypothesize that clientelist parties pursue a mixed strategy, broadly targeting their core voters b…
Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure, By Alison E. Post
Book review of: Alison E. Post: Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure . Cambridge, 2014. 266 p. ISBN: 9781107048041
Renationalization in Argentina, 2005-2013
Since 2002, government nationalizations and contractual breaches in general around the world have surged. South America has witnessed a wave of nationalizations of private enterprises, mostly foreign. Some analysts contend that this trend is shaped by the left-wing ideological orientation of the governments, whereas others argue that a more robust explanation is the combination of economic pressure and constraint factors. This article contributes…
Perceptions of Competence and the European Economic Crisis: A Micro-Level Analysis
This study provides micro-level evidence for the new theories of accountability under globalization. We analyze the micro-level logic that underpins political accountability in democratic countries with highly globalized economies. We contend that voters discount current economic conditions in evaluating incumbent leaders if they perceive the incumbent leader moving the country in the right direction. We test this argument with survey data from e…
Reassessing the trade-off hypothesis: How misery drives the corruption effect on presidential approval
Accountability and Corruption in Argentina During the Kirchners’ Era
This article highlights an important paradox: in Argentina between 2003 and 2013 the center-left Peronist government’s approach to governance mirrors that of the center-right Peronist administration of the 1990s. While the latter centralized authority to pursue neoliberal reforms, the former have centralized authority in the name of expanding government intervention in the economy. In both cases, corruption has tended to go unchecked due to insuf…
Corruption, Economic Satisfaction, and Confidence in Government Evidence From Argentina
Why Do Corrupt Governments Maintain Public Support
This article addresses an issue often neglected by the current literature on political corruption: Why do citizens support corrupt governments? The authors argue that people in countries where government institutions are weak and patron-client relationships strong are more likely to support a corrupt leader from whom they expect to receive tangible benefits. Using a cross-national analysis of citizens in 14 countries, the authors find statistical…
Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America (review)
Political Manipulations and Market Reforms Failures
Economists have recently underscored that the failure of market reforms in producing sustained growth in emerging markets is the result of poor advice from the International Monetary Fund, as well as of erroneous macroeconomic policies of domestic decision makers. This article proposes a complementary hypothesis. If market reforms are enacted in a political system with weak accountability institutions, then one should expect the executive to mani…
Regulatory Policy in Latin America: Post-Privatization Realities
Privatization in Latin America has meant that governments have had to redefine their roles as entrepreneurs to those of effective regulators. Are they up to this task, and how have they tackled these new roles? This volume attempts to answer these fundamental questions
Peter Snow
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Privatization South American Style
Privatization South American Style focuses on the politics of privatization in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It examines both the micro and macroeconomics of achieving privatization, the policy measures introduced, and factors affecting the implementation of privatization. The political dimensions of privatization are analysed in order to explain the variations in national success in formulation and implementing privatization programmes. The autho…
The Politics of Socioeconomic Change in Argentina
Earlier LARR review essays on Argentina examined different approaches to studying the socioeconomic decay that has affected the country in this century The present review essay will focus instead on the recent literature dealing with the politics of socioeconomic reform since Argentina returned to democracy in 1983.The seven books under review here look at different aspects of the politics of reform but will be discussed in terms of the broad iss…
Class, Democracy, and Labor in Contemporary Argentina
Market reforms and corruption in Latin America: New means for old ways
Many liberal economists hail market‐oriented reforms as a means to combat corruption in emerging Latin American democracies with state‐led economies. Such arguments assume that reforms like privatization and market deregulation by definition will eliminate the politicians’ ability to use state enterprises and government regulations to their own personal advantage. However, there has been little academic scrutiny of how these reforms have been act…
Institutional decay and distributional coalitions in developing countries: The argentine riddle reconsidered
The Political Economy of Mercosur
Recent literature on regional integration has stressed the key role that emerging trading blocs will have in shaping the world economy of the 21st-century. With the end of the Cold War, policymakers have refocused their attention on economic issues. Economic trends - such as rapid changes in research, technology, capital flow, and trade patterns - have assumed a new importance. Increasing competition in world markets has induced industrialized co…
Political Forces in Argentina
Introduction The Political Party System The Armed Forces The Labor Movement The Church and Catholic Lay Groups Students and Politics Bibliography Index
The Political Economy of Privatization through Divestiture in Lesser Developed Economies
The A. puts forward a framework of analysis to organize conceptually the many factors often cited in the literature dealing with privatization policies in lesser developed economies. Using Argentina as a case in point, it argues that the concept of policy substitutability can help us in understanding why Latin American leaders are embracing privatization policies while their predecessors had advocated state interventionism
The Evolution of Agricultural Interest Groups in Argentina
Argentina's history has been profoundly influenced by the development of its agriculture. It was through the exportation of beef and grain that the country experienced spectacular economic growth between 1880 and 1930. Historically, agricultural and agro-industrial production have made up between 70 and 80% of export earnings.1As a consequence, the sector's dominant interest group during that period, the Argentine Rural Society (Sociedad Rural Ar…
The International Monetary Fund and Economic Stabilization: The Argentine Case
Preface Economic Stabilization, the IMF, and the Argentine Case Industrializations, Balance-of-Payments Crisis, and the Creation of External Debt The Stabilization Plan of the Frondizi Administration The Stabilization Plan of the Videla Administration The Stabilization Plan of the Alfonsin Administration Conclusions Selected Bibliography Index
Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy
Why Do Corrupt Governments Maintain Public Support
This article addresses an issue often neglected by the current literature on political corruption: Why do citizens support corrupt governments? The authors argue that people in countries where government institutions are weak and patron-client relationships strong are more likely to support a corrupt leader from whom they expect to receive tangible benefits. Using a cross-national analysis of citizens in 14 countries, the authors find statistical…
Market reforms and corruption in Latin America: New means for old ways
Many liberal economists hail market‐oriented reforms as a means to combat corruption in emerging Latin American democracies with state‐led economies. Such arguments assume that reforms like privatization and market deregulation by definition will eliminate the politicians’ ability to use state enterprises and government regulations to their own personal advantage. However, there has been little academic scrutiny of how these reforms have been act…
Reassessing the trade-off hypothesis: How misery drives the corruption effect on presidential approval
The Political Economy of Mercosur
Recent literature on regional integration has stressed the key role that emerging trading blocs will have in shaping the world economy of the 21st-century. With the end of the Cold War, policymakers have refocused their attention on economic issues. Economic trends - such as rapid changes in research, technology, capital flow, and trade patterns - have assumed a new importance. Increasing competition in world markets has induced industrialized co…
Corruption, Economic Satisfaction, and Confidence in Government Evidence From Argentina
Political Manipulations and Market Reforms Failures
Economists have recently underscored that the failure of market reforms in producing sustained growth in emerging markets is the result of poor advice from the International Monetary Fund, as well as of erroneous macroeconomic policies of domestic decision makers. This article proposes a complementary hypothesis. If market reforms are enacted in a political system with weak accountability institutions, then one should expect the executive to mani…
The Political Economy of Privatization through Divestiture in Lesser Developed Economies
The A. puts forward a framework of analysis to organize conceptually the many factors often cited in the literature dealing with privatization policies in lesser developed economies. Using Argentina as a case in point, it argues that the concept of policy substitutability can help us in understanding why Latin American leaders are embracing privatization policies while their predecessors had advocated state interventionism
Economic Stabilisation in Argentina: The Austral Plan
The relative prosperity which Argentina enjoyed at the beginning of the century made it a candidate to be a major economic power. Despite its abundant natural resources and skilled manpower, Argentina has consistently failed to live up to its potential. Periods of growth have either been too sporadic or political upheavals too frequent for coherent economic policies to be effective. In recent decades the Argentine economy has been characterised b…
Poverty, Partisanship, and Vote Buying in Latin America
Electoral contests in Latin America are often characterized by attempts by political parties to sway the outcome of elections using vote buying-a practice that seems to persist during elections throughout the region. This article examines how clientelist parties' use of vote buying is jointly shaped by two voter traits: poverty and partisanship. We hypothesize that clientelist parties pursue a mixed strategy, broadly targeting their core voters b…
Privatization South American Style
Privatization South American Style focuses on the politics of privatization in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It examines both the micro and macroeconomics of achieving privatization, the policy measures introduced, and factors affecting the implementation of privatization. The political dimensions of privatization are analysed in order to explain the variations in national success in formulation and implementing privatization programmes. The autho…
The Evolution of Agricultural Interest Groups in Argentina
Argentina's history has been profoundly influenced by the development of its agriculture. It was through the exportation of beef and grain that the country experienced spectacular economic growth between 1880 and 1930. Historically, agricultural and agro-industrial production have made up between 70 and 80% of export earnings.1As a consequence, the sector's dominant interest group during that period, the Argentine Rural Society (Sociedad Rural Ar…
Institutional decay and distributional coalitions in developing countries: The argentine riddle reconsidered
Argentine-Brazilian Economic Integration: An Early Appraisal
Attempts have been made at Latin American regional integration since the late 1950s, but on each occasion, high expectations have met with disappointing failures. In July 1986, however, a new phase began in the history of Latin American integration as Presidents Raúl Alfonsín of Argentina and José Sarney of Brazil signed the Argentina-Brazil Economic Integration Pact (ABEIP
Renationalization in Argentina, 2005-2013
Since 2002, government nationalizations and contractual breaches in general around the world have surged. South America has witnessed a wave of nationalizations of private enterprises, mostly foreign. Some analysts contend that this trend is shaped by the left-wing ideological orientation of the governments, whereas others argue that a more robust explanation is the combination of economic pressure and constraint factors. This article contributes…
Perceptions of Competence and the European Economic Crisis: A Micro-Level Analysis
This study provides micro-level evidence for the new theories of accountability under globalization. We analyze the micro-level logic that underpins political accountability in democratic countries with highly globalized economies. We contend that voters discount current economic conditions in evaluating incumbent leaders if they perceive the incumbent leader moving the country in the right direction. We test this argument with survey data from e…
Economic Stabilisation in Argentina: The Austral Plan
The relative prosperity which Argentina enjoyed at the beginning of the century made it a candidate to be a major economic power. Despite its abundant natural resources and skilled manpower, Argentina has consistently failed to live up to its potential. Periods of growth have either been too sporadic or political upheavals too frequent for coherent economic policies to be effective. In recent decades the Argentine economy has been characterised b…
Argentine-Brazilian Economic Integration: An Early Appraisal
Attempts have been made at Latin American regional integration since the late 1950s, but on each occasion, high expectations have met with disappointing failures. In July 1986, however, a new phase began in the history of Latin American integration as Presidents Raúl Alfonsín of Argentina and José Sarney of Brazil signed the Argentina-Brazil Economic Integration Pact (ABEIP
Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy
The Evolution of Agricultural Interest Groups in Argentina
Argentina's history has been profoundly influenced by the development of its agriculture. It was through the exportation of beef and grain that the country experienced spectacular economic growth between 1880 and 1930. Historically, agricultural and agro-industrial production have made up between 70 and 80% of export earnings.1As a consequence, the sector's dominant interest group during that period, the Argentine Rural Society (Sociedad Rural Ar…
The International Monetary Fund and Economic Stabilization: The Argentine Case
Preface Economic Stabilization, the IMF, and the Argentine Case Industrializations, Balance-of-Payments Crisis, and the Creation of External Debt The Stabilization Plan of the Frondizi Administration The Stabilization Plan of the Videla Administration The Stabilization Plan of the Alfonsin Administration Conclusions Selected Bibliography Index
Political Forces in Argentina
Introduction The Political Party System The Armed Forces The Labor Movement The Church and Catholic Lay Groups Students and Politics Bibliography Index
The Political Economy of Privatization through Divestiture in Lesser Developed Economies
The A. puts forward a framework of analysis to organize conceptually the many factors often cited in the literature dealing with privatization policies in lesser developed economies. Using Argentina as a case in point, it argues that the concept of policy substitutability can help us in understanding why Latin American leaders are embracing privatization policies while their predecessors had advocated state interventionism
Institutional decay and distributional coalitions in developing countries: The argentine riddle reconsidered
The Political Economy of Mercosur
Recent literature on regional integration has stressed the key role that emerging trading blocs will have in shaping the world economy of the 21st-century. With the end of the Cold War, policymakers have refocused their attention on economic issues. Economic trends - such as rapid changes in research, technology, capital flow, and trade patterns - have assumed a new importance. Increasing competition in world markets has induced industrialized co…
Market reforms and corruption in Latin America: New means for old ways
Many liberal economists hail market‐oriented reforms as a means to combat corruption in emerging Latin American democracies with state‐led economies. Such arguments assume that reforms like privatization and market deregulation by definition will eliminate the politicians’ ability to use state enterprises and government regulations to their own personal advantage. However, there has been little academic scrutiny of how these reforms have been act…
Class, Democracy, and Labor in Contemporary Argentina
The Politics of Socioeconomic Change in Argentina
Earlier LARR review essays on Argentina examined different approaches to studying the socioeconomic decay that has affected the country in this century The present review essay will focus instead on the recent literature dealing with the politics of socioeconomic reform since Argentina returned to democracy in 1983.The seven books under review here look at different aspects of the politics of reform but will be discussed in terms of the broad iss…
Peter Snow
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Privatization South American Style
Privatization South American Style focuses on the politics of privatization in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It examines both the micro and macroeconomics of achieving privatization, the policy measures introduced, and factors affecting the implementation of privatization. The political dimensions of privatization are analysed in order to explain the variations in national success in formulation and implementing privatization programmes. The autho…
Regulatory Policy in Latin America: Post-Privatization Realities
Privatization in Latin America has meant that governments have had to redefine their roles as entrepreneurs to those of effective regulators. Are they up to this task, and how have they tackled these new roles? This volume attempts to answer these fundamental questions
Political Manipulations and Market Reforms Failures
Economists have recently underscored that the failure of market reforms in producing sustained growth in emerging markets is the result of poor advice from the International Monetary Fund, as well as of erroneous macroeconomic policies of domestic decision makers. This article proposes a complementary hypothesis. If market reforms are enacted in a political system with weak accountability institutions, then one should expect the executive to mani…
Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America (review)
Why Do Corrupt Governments Maintain Public Support
This article addresses an issue often neglected by the current literature on political corruption: Why do citizens support corrupt governments? The authors argue that people in countries where government institutions are weak and patron-client relationships strong are more likely to support a corrupt leader from whom they expect to receive tangible benefits. Using a cross-national analysis of citizens in 14 countries, the authors find statistical…
Corruption, Economic Satisfaction, and Confidence in Government Evidence From Argentina
Accountability and Corruption in Argentina During the Kirchners’ Era
This article highlights an important paradox: in Argentina between 2003 and 2013 the center-left Peronist government’s approach to governance mirrors that of the center-right Peronist administration of the 1990s. While the latter centralized authority to pursue neoliberal reforms, the former have centralized authority in the name of expanding government intervention in the economy. In both cases, corruption has tended to go unchecked due to insuf…
Perceptions of Competence and the European Economic Crisis: A Micro-Level Analysis
This study provides micro-level evidence for the new theories of accountability under globalization. We analyze the micro-level logic that underpins political accountability in democratic countries with highly globalized economies. We contend that voters discount current economic conditions in evaluating incumbent leaders if they perceive the incumbent leader moving the country in the right direction. We test this argument with survey data from e…
Reassessing the trade-off hypothesis: How misery drives the corruption effect on presidential approval
Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure, By Alison E. Post
Book review of: Alison E. Post: Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure . Cambridge, 2014. 266 p. ISBN: 9781107048041
Renationalization in Argentina, 2005-2013
Since 2002, government nationalizations and contractual breaches in general around the world have surged. South America has witnessed a wave of nationalizations of private enterprises, mostly foreign. Some analysts contend that this trend is shaped by the left-wing ideological orientation of the governments, whereas others argue that a more robust explanation is the combination of economic pressure and constraint factors. This article contributes…
Poverty, Partisanship, and Vote Buying in Latin America
Electoral contests in Latin America are often characterized by attempts by political parties to sway the outcome of elections using vote buying-a practice that seems to persist during elections throughout the region. This article examines how clientelist parties' use of vote buying is jointly shaped by two voter traits: poverty and partisanship. We hypothesize that clientelist parties pursue a mixed strategy, broadly targeting their core voters b…
Political science (24 works) · Economics (19 works) · Politics (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Language change (7 works) · Market economy (7 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (6 works) · Democracy (6 works)