Felipe Livert
Biographic Data
| ID | 785930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felipe Livert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felipe |
| FAMILY NAME | Livert |
| SIGNATURE | LIVERT F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alberto Hurtado University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3658-6886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When wildfires reward incumbents: Risk exposure and electoral accountability in Chile
This study examines how wildfires are associated with municipal electoral outcomes in Chile, a topic that has received limited attention in the literature on natural disasters and elections. Using georeferenced data for the period 2012–2021, the analysis looks at how wildfire magnitude interacts with pre-existing territorial risk and with the probability that incumbent mayors are re-elected. Drawing on risk perception theory and the literature on…
Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Administrative Capacity With Open Data: Could ‘Administrative Throughput’ Be the Missing Link Between Administrative Inputs and Outputs
Despite the popularity of the concept, the measurement and the conceptualization of administrative capacity remain ambiguous, based on proxies, and overlook the local level. Conceptualization is weakened by the conflation of exogenous variables. Quantitative and qualitative perspectives are rarely reconciled, leading to fragmentation and to an overestimation of the effect of administrative capacity on policy performance. We tackle these shortcomi…
Rewarding performance in disaster response: Evidence from local governments in Latin America
Megaprojects as sites for resistance: The electoral effects of Mapuche attacks on highways
Megaprojects are electoral magnets due to their transformative power, but they also raise strong opposition. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design, this paper assesses the impact on presidential elections of Mapuche attacks and protests at two strategic road infrastructures. Mapuche uses a repertoire of non-conventional actions in their struggle with the Chilean state seeking self-determination. Estimations reveal that attacks reduce the likeli…
The Right and the Politics of Labor Informality Enforcement
The enforcement of labor informality is subject to electoral motivations, and political parties on the left and right have different incentives to do so. While leftist governments are more lenient not to harm their informal electorate, right-wing incumbents face an electoral dilemma: the part of its constituency that benefits from informal work is in favor of a permissive attitude, but another section demands a tough hand to deal with the unfair …
Clientelism and Electoral Competition: The Case of Chile’s Municipalities
Patronage is often considered a subtype of clientelism that arises through reciprocal arrangements between a politician and a citizen, where electoral support is rewarded with public employment. In Chile, there is evidence of clientelist practices at the municipal level. However, these studies have mainly had a qualitative focus. To complement these studies, this research aims to provide quantitative evidence using panel data and two-way fixed ef…
The electoral bias: The political economy of subnational transfers in Latin America
This article examines whether transfers to local governments in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have been allocated to obtain electoral advantage. A large panel data set and fixed-effects estimations uncover two types of manipulations: grant fluctuations along the municipal election cycle and biases towards aligned municipalities. Notwithstanding, there are significant cross-country differences. In Brazil, Colombia and Chile, mayors aligned wi…
Electoral incentives and distributive politics in young democracies: Evidence from Chile
Paving the electoral way: Urban infrastructure, partisan politics and civic engagement
Distributive politics and spatial equity: The allocation of public investment in Chile
Distributive politics and spatial equity: the allocation of public investment in Chile. Regional Studies. This paper analyzes the influence of electoral concerns on investment distribution from the central government to Chilean municipalities. Drawing upon panel data, it shows that investment is mediated by pork-barrel and political budget cycles, as well as favouring the relatively better-off areas. Estimations also reveal that resources are cha…
Distributive politics and spatial equity: The allocation of public investment in Chile
Distributive politics and spatial equity: the allocation of public investment in Chile. Regional Studies. This paper analyzes the influence of electoral concerns on investment distribution from the central government to Chilean municipalities. Drawing upon panel data, it shows that investment is mediated by pork-barrel and political budget cycles, as well as favouring the relatively better-off areas. Estimations also reveal that resources are cha…
The electoral bias: The political economy of subnational transfers in Latin America
This article examines whether transfers to local governments in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have been allocated to obtain electoral advantage. A large panel data set and fixed-effects estimations uncover two types of manipulations: grant fluctuations along the municipal election cycle and biases towards aligned municipalities. Notwithstanding, there are significant cross-country differences. In Brazil, Colombia and Chile, mayors aligned wi…
Electoral incentives and distributive politics in young democracies: Evidence from Chile
Paving the electoral way: Urban infrastructure, partisan politics and civic engagement
Rewarding performance in disaster response: Evidence from local governments in Latin America
Megaprojects as sites for resistance: The electoral effects of Mapuche attacks on highways
Megaprojects are electoral magnets due to their transformative power, but they also raise strong opposition. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design, this paper assesses the impact on presidential elections of Mapuche attacks and protests at two strategic road infrastructures. Mapuche uses a repertoire of non-conventional actions in their struggle with the Chilean state seeking self-determination. Estimations reveal that attacks reduce the likeli…
The Right and the Politics of Labor Informality Enforcement
The enforcement of labor informality is subject to electoral motivations, and political parties on the left and right have different incentives to do so. While leftist governments are more lenient not to harm their informal electorate, right-wing incumbents face an electoral dilemma: the part of its constituency that benefits from informal work is in favor of a permissive attitude, but another section demands a tough hand to deal with the unfair …
Clientelism and Electoral Competition: The Case of Chile’s Municipalities
Patronage is often considered a subtype of clientelism that arises through reciprocal arrangements between a politician and a citizen, where electoral support is rewarded with public employment. In Chile, there is evidence of clientelist practices at the municipal level. However, these studies have mainly had a qualitative focus. To complement these studies, this research aims to provide quantitative evidence using panel data and two-way fixed ef…
Distributive politics and spatial equity: The allocation of public investment in Chile
Distributive politics and spatial equity: the allocation of public investment in Chile. Regional Studies. This paper analyzes the influence of electoral concerns on investment distribution from the central government to Chilean municipalities. Drawing upon panel data, it shows that investment is mediated by pork-barrel and political budget cycles, as well as favouring the relatively better-off areas. Estimations also reveal that resources are cha…
Paving the electoral way: Urban infrastructure, partisan politics and civic engagement
The electoral bias: The political economy of subnational transfers in Latin America
This article examines whether transfers to local governments in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have been allocated to obtain electoral advantage. A large panel data set and fixed-effects estimations uncover two types of manipulations: grant fluctuations along the municipal election cycle and biases towards aligned municipalities. Notwithstanding, there are significant cross-country differences. In Brazil, Colombia and Chile, mayors aligned wi…
Electoral incentives and distributive politics in young democracies: Evidence from Chile
Clientelism and Electoral Competition: The Case of Chile’s Municipalities
Patronage is often considered a subtype of clientelism that arises through reciprocal arrangements between a politician and a citizen, where electoral support is rewarded with public employment. In Chile, there is evidence of clientelist practices at the municipal level. However, these studies have mainly had a qualitative focus. To complement these studies, this research aims to provide quantitative evidence using panel data and two-way fixed ef…
Rewarding performance in disaster response: Evidence from local governments in Latin America
Megaprojects as sites for resistance: The electoral effects of Mapuche attacks on highways
Megaprojects are electoral magnets due to their transformative power, but they also raise strong opposition. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design, this paper assesses the impact on presidential elections of Mapuche attacks and protests at two strategic road infrastructures. Mapuche uses a repertoire of non-conventional actions in their struggle with the Chilean state seeking self-determination. Estimations reveal that attacks reduce the likeli…
The Right and the Politics of Labor Informality Enforcement
The enforcement of labor informality is subject to electoral motivations, and political parties on the left and right have different incentives to do so. While leftist governments are more lenient not to harm their informal electorate, right-wing incumbents face an electoral dilemma: the part of its constituency that benefits from informal work is in favor of a permissive attitude, but another section demands a tough hand to deal with the unfair …
When wildfires reward incumbents: Risk exposure and electoral accountability in Chile
This study examines how wildfires are associated with municipal electoral outcomes in Chile, a topic that has received limited attention in the literature on natural disasters and elections. Using georeferenced data for the period 2012–2021, the analysis looks at how wildfire magnitude interacts with pre-existing territorial risk and with the probability that incumbent mayors are re-elected. Drawing on risk perception theory and the literature on…
Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Administrative Capacity With Open Data: Could ‘Administrative Throughput’ Be the Missing Link Between Administrative Inputs and Outputs
Despite the popularity of the concept, the measurement and the conceptualization of administrative capacity remain ambiguous, based on proxies, and overlook the local level. Conceptualization is weakened by the conflation of exogenous variables. Quantitative and qualitative perspectives are rarely reconciled, leading to fragmentation and to an overestimation of the effect of administrative capacity on policy performance. We tackle these shortcomi…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (4 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Competition (biology (3 works)