José Tomás Labarca
Biographic Data
| ID | 78761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Tomás Labarca |
| GIVEN NAMES | José Tomás |
| FAMILY NAME | Labarca |
| SIGNATURE | LABARCA J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6626-017X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The only game in town: Central bank politicisation management and macroeconomic policy discourse at the zero-lower-bound
When the 2007–2009 Global Financial Crisis erupted, Bank of England officials supported expansive fiscal and monetary remedies. However, while Quantitative Easing (QE) was further expanded over time, monetary officials reversed their policy position vis-à-vis fiscal stimuli in 2009 and demanded that politicians adhere to strict fiscal austerity. We conduct process tracing based on a document analysis of Bank of England narrative in 2009–2012 to e…
Class-based taxation: The fiscal paternalism of the Chilean income tax
This article analyzes the history of the Chilean personal income tax (PIT) to explain the persistence of a class-based and progressive PIT within a context of a regressive fiscal system. We provide new archival evidence regarding fiscal politics since the nineteenth century to estimate the generalization of the PIT between 1925 and 2014. Combining statistical information and parliamentary records, we follow the PIT’s trajectory in relation to eli…
Towards a (Minority) Shareholder State? The Labour Government's Fiscal Framework
This article explores the politics of the fiscal framework launched by the Labour government in October 2024. Relative to the trajectory of fiscal frameworks in the UK since fiscal rules were first introduced by New Labour in 1997, the reform represents a contradictory enterprise. The differentiated treatment of borrowing underlying the ‘stability rule’ and a newly gained legitimate avenue for public sector financial activities represent progress…
Unintended institutionalization: How the Politics of Symbolic Fiscal Practices Shapes Economic Policy
Sociologists and political economists frequently study the politics of economic ideas, but the official statistics that enable decision-making and shape public debate have been less scrutinized. This article theorizes symbolic fiscal practices-the conceptual and accounting conventions, procedures, techniques and devices underlying official budgetary information-as the object and means of different framing contests. To demonstrate the analytical v…
Sarah L Quinn, American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation
Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Latin America
Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers and international organizations have proposed reforms across the region with the aim of increasing revenue for social expenditures and sustainable growth. These challenges, how-ever, are not new: Latin American countries have historically tried to build effective and egal…
Taxes without Taxpayers: The Invisibility of Taxes in Chile
This study documents the existing gap between tax structure and tax visibility using evidence from a nationally representative survey in Chile around the time of a contentious tax reform bill. Debates over taxation often assume that taxpayers know the scale and reach of their tax obligations and the benefits associated to paying taxes, which are crucial to the success of taxation as a tool for development. We tested the assumption of a well-infor…
“Por los que quieren un gobierno de avanzada popular”: Nuevas prácticas políticas en la campaña presidencial de la Democracia Cristiana, Chile, 1962–1964
El artículo analiza la elección presidencial de 1964 en Chile. Dicha elección fue protagonizada por dos candidaturas reformistas, encabezadas por Eduardo Frei Montalva, representante de la Democracia Cristiana, y por Salvador Allende, representante de la coalición de partidos de izquierda Frente de Acción Popular. Mediante la documentación de diferentes instancias de elaboración programática participativa y un análisis de la estrategia electoral …
Cooperativas como política pública: Electrificación rural en Chile, 1940-1970
Cooperatives as public policy: Rural electrification in Chile, 1940-1970 This article examines the relations between cooperatives and the State in Chile during the implementation of the National Electrification Plan from 1940 to 1970. Scholars generally agree that Latin American developmentalism entailed State expansion and market regression. I challenge this common explanation by arguing that in rural areas the Electrification Plan was carried o…
El "ciclo corto" del movimiento estudiantil chileno: Conflicto Sectorial O Cuestionamiento Sistémico
Este artículo propone una comprensión del movimiento estudiantil chileno a partir de dos elementos convergentes: un análisis de las consecuencias que han tenido las políticas neoliberales para la estructura de clases, y un análisis de la legitimidad alcanzada por el movimiento. De esta manera, uno de los resultados fundamentales es que el movimiento estudiantil chileno no abogó por reivindicaciones sectoriales, sino que cuestionó el carácter soci…
Towards a (Minority) Shareholder State? The Labour Government's Fiscal Framework
This article explores the politics of the fiscal framework launched by the Labour government in October 2024. Relative to the trajectory of fiscal frameworks in the UK since fiscal rules were first introduced by New Labour in 1997, the reform represents a contradictory enterprise. The differentiated treatment of borrowing underlying the ‘stability rule’ and a newly gained legitimate avenue for public sector financial activities represent progress…
Taxes without Taxpayers: The Invisibility of Taxes in Chile
This study documents the existing gap between tax structure and tax visibility using evidence from a nationally representative survey in Chile around the time of a contentious tax reform bill. Debates over taxation often assume that taxpayers know the scale and reach of their tax obligations and the benefits associated to paying taxes, which are crucial to the success of taxation as a tool for development. We tested the assumption of a well-infor…
Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Latin America
Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers and international organizations have proposed reforms across the region with the aim of increasing revenue for social expenditures and sustainable growth. These challenges, how-ever, are not new: Latin American countries have historically tried to build effective and egal…
Cooperativas como política pública: Electrificación rural en Chile, 1940-1970
Cooperatives as public policy: Rural electrification in Chile, 1940-1970 This article examines the relations between cooperatives and the State in Chile during the implementation of the National Electrification Plan from 1940 to 1970. Scholars generally agree that Latin American developmentalism entailed State expansion and market regression. I challenge this common explanation by arguing that in rural areas the Electrification Plan was carried o…
Cooperativas como política pública: Electrificación rural en Chile, 1940-1970
Cooperatives as public policy: Rural electrification in Chile, 1940-1970 This article examines the relations between cooperatives and the State in Chile during the implementation of the National Electrification Plan from 1940 to 1970. Scholars generally agree that Latin American developmentalism entailed State expansion and market regression. I challenge this common explanation by arguing that in rural areas the Electrification Plan was carried o…
El "ciclo corto" del movimiento estudiantil chileno: Conflicto Sectorial O Cuestionamiento Sistémico
Este artículo propone una comprensión del movimiento estudiantil chileno a partir de dos elementos convergentes: un análisis de las consecuencias que han tenido las políticas neoliberales para la estructura de clases, y un análisis de la legitimidad alcanzada por el movimiento. De esta manera, uno de los resultados fundamentales es que el movimiento estudiantil chileno no abogó por reivindicaciones sectoriales, sino que cuestionó el carácter soci…
“Por los que quieren un gobierno de avanzada popular”: Nuevas prácticas políticas en la campaña presidencial de la Democracia Cristiana, Chile, 1962–1964
El artículo analiza la elección presidencial de 1964 en Chile. Dicha elección fue protagonizada por dos candidaturas reformistas, encabezadas por Eduardo Frei Montalva, representante de la Democracia Cristiana, y por Salvador Allende, representante de la coalición de partidos de izquierda Frente de Acción Popular. Mediante la documentación de diferentes instancias de elaboración programática participativa y un análisis de la estrategia electoral …
Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Latin America
Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers and international organizations have proposed reforms across the region with the aim of increasing revenue for social expenditures and sustainable growth. These challenges, how-ever, are not new: Latin American countries have historically tried to build effective and egal…
Taxes without Taxpayers: The Invisibility of Taxes in Chile
This study documents the existing gap between tax structure and tax visibility using evidence from a nationally representative survey in Chile around the time of a contentious tax reform bill. Debates over taxation often assume that taxpayers know the scale and reach of their tax obligations and the benefits associated to paying taxes, which are crucial to the success of taxation as a tool for development. We tested the assumption of a well-infor…
Sarah L Quinn, American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation
Class-based taxation: The fiscal paternalism of the Chilean income tax
This article analyzes the history of the Chilean personal income tax (PIT) to explain the persistence of a class-based and progressive PIT within a context of a regressive fiscal system. We provide new archival evidence regarding fiscal politics since the nineteenth century to estimate the generalization of the PIT between 1925 and 2014. Combining statistical information and parliamentary records, we follow the PIT’s trajectory in relation to eli…
Towards a (Minority) Shareholder State? The Labour Government's Fiscal Framework
This article explores the politics of the fiscal framework launched by the Labour government in October 2024. Relative to the trajectory of fiscal frameworks in the UK since fiscal rules were first introduced by New Labour in 1997, the reform represents a contradictory enterprise. The differentiated treatment of borrowing underlying the ‘stability rule’ and a newly gained legitimate avenue for public sector financial activities represent progress…
Unintended institutionalization: How the Politics of Symbolic Fiscal Practices Shapes Economic Policy
Sociologists and political economists frequently study the politics of economic ideas, but the official statistics that enable decision-making and shape public debate have been less scrutinized. This article theorizes symbolic fiscal practices-the conceptual and accounting conventions, procedures, techniques and devices underlying official budgetary information-as the object and means of different framing contests. To demonstrate the analytical v…
The only game in town: Central bank politicisation management and macroeconomic policy discourse at the zero-lower-bound
When the 2007–2009 Global Financial Crisis erupted, Bank of England officials supported expansive fiscal and monetary remedies. However, while Quantitative Easing (QE) was further expanded over time, monetary officials reversed their policy position vis-à-vis fiscal stimuli in 2009 and demanded that politicians adhere to strict fiscal austerity. We conduct process tracing based on a document analysis of Bank of England narrative in 2009–2012 to e…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Taxation and Compliance Studies (3 works) · Finance (2 works)