Juan Andrés Moraes
Biographic Data
| ID | 790059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Andrés Moraes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan Andrés |
| FAMILY NAME | Moraes |
| SIGNATURE | MORAES J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de la República de Uruguay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7406-3691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Role of Electoral Coordination in Party Formation
What is the origin of the Frente Amplio? While most contributions focus on party-building strategies and the electoral success of the Left, scholars have overlooked the previous process of party formation. This paper studies the Frente Amplio's formation in 1971 as a case of complete electoral coordination between extant parties, factions and individual left-wing politicians who understood the electoral inefficiencies of competing with each other…
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies
What explains political polarization across developing democracies? In contrast to extant studies, this article develops a novel argument that links electoral (in)stability at the party system level with varying levels of polarization. Specifically, we claim that increasing levels of electoral volatility generate high levels of uncertainty among partisan elites, which respond by setting clear policy positions that are frequently far away from the…
Estimating Parties' Policy Positions in Uruguay
This research note takes advantage of a novel dataset to analyze legislators' behavior in Uruguay's Parliament. Comparing the positions of legislators based on floor speeches and roll-call voting, it discusses the relationship between discourse and voting among individual legislators and parties. The dataset contains more than 57,000 speeches from more than 1,000 Uruguayan legislators between 1985 and 2015 and its related R package. The study est…
The Electoral Success of the Left in Latin America
Why have moderate electorates elected and reelected leftist governments in Latin America over the last twenty years? Scholars who rely on the classic Downsian logic of the median voter theorem have observed a process of ideological moderation among the most salient left-wing parties in the region. However, there have been no systematic attempts to evaluate the moderation thesis at the comparative level, either across Latin America or within cases…
The International Monetary Fund, Party System Institutionalization, and Protest in Latin America
Extant studies have documented a positive correlation between country participation in International Monetary Fund-sponsored programs and collective protests in Latin America. However, anecdotal evidence indicates that there is a great deal of variation in the number of protests in recipient countries across the region. This article provides a theoretical argument that explains how the fund interacts with the level of party system institutionaliz…
Del pluralismo incómodo a la comodidad del pluralismo
Between Professionalization, "Partidización" and the Specter of 'Perestroika Movement'" (Vol.35 (1)).Because it is largely empirically grounded, I do not reject most of the descriptive and analytic side of the paper.Instead, my note criticizes a set of final comments without empirical evidence, value-driven and prejudiced regarding a minority of Uruguayan scholars.This minority that holds and promotes some of the theoretical and methodological st…
Uruguay 2013
Este artículo analiza la coyuntura política de Uruguay durante 2013. La primera sección muestra una evolución del contexto socioeconómico en el que ha navegado Uruguay durante los últimos cinco años, haciendo hincapié en los resultados recientes en algunas áreas específicas de política pública. La segunda sección se concentra en la actividad del Poder Ejecutivo, como el principal agente en la fijación de la agenda de gobierno, mediante la activid…
Uruguay
trabajo se divide en cinco secciones.La primera repasa el contexto macroeconómico de mediano plazo, así como algunos indicadores vinculados a la pobreza y la distribución del ingreso.La segunda sección se centra en la asunción del nuevo gobierno electo en las elecciones nacionales de 2009.en particular, esta sección describe y analiza la elaboración de la agenda del nuevo gobierno liderado por el presidente José mujica, la definición de un nuevo …
Factions with clout
We investigate bill passage by party factions in Uruguay and show that those joining cabinet coalitions earn policy influence. The policy advantage of coalition is therefore not collected by the president alone, as often implied: partners acquire clout in law-making and use it to pass bills of their own and to strike deals with outside factions. Analysis of all bills initiated between 1985 and 2005 reveals that the odds of passing a bill sponsore…
From Patronage to Program
This article explains the unanticipated emergence of party-oriented legislators and rising party discipline in Brazil since the early 1990s. The authors contend that deputies in Brazil became increasingly party oriented because the utilities of party-programmatic and patronage-based electoral strategies shifted with market reforms that created a programmatic cleavage in Brazilian politics and diminished the resource base for state patronage. The …
From Patronage to Program
This article explains the unanticipated emergence of party-oriented legislators and rising party discipline in Brazil since the early 1990s. The authors contend that deputies in Brazil became increasingly party oriented because the utilities of party-programmatic and patronage-based electoral strategies shifted with market reforms that created a programmatic cleavage in Brazilian politics and diminished the resource base for state patronage. The …
Factions with clout
We investigate bill passage by party factions in Uruguay and show that those joining cabinet coalitions earn policy influence. The policy advantage of coalition is therefore not collected by the president alone, as often implied: partners acquire clout in law-making and use it to pass bills of their own and to strike deals with outside factions. Analysis of all bills initiated between 1985 and 2005 reveals that the odds of passing a bill sponsore…
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies
What explains political polarization across developing democracies? In contrast to extant studies, this article develops a novel argument that links electoral (in)stability at the party system level with varying levels of polarization. Specifically, we claim that increasing levels of electoral volatility generate high levels of uncertainty among partisan elites, which respond by setting clear policy positions that are frequently far away from the…
Uruguay 2013
Este artículo analiza la coyuntura política de Uruguay durante 2013. La primera sección muestra una evolución del contexto socioeconómico en el que ha navegado Uruguay durante los últimos cinco años, haciendo hincapié en los resultados recientes en algunas áreas específicas de política pública. La segunda sección se concentra en la actividad del Poder Ejecutivo, como el principal agente en la fijación de la agenda de gobierno, mediante la activid…
The International Monetary Fund, Party System Institutionalization, and Protest in Latin America
Extant studies have documented a positive correlation between country participation in International Monetary Fund-sponsored programs and collective protests in Latin America. However, anecdotal evidence indicates that there is a great deal of variation in the number of protests in recipient countries across the region. This article provides a theoretical argument that explains how the fund interacts with the level of party system institutionaliz…
Estimating Parties' Policy Positions in Uruguay
This research note takes advantage of a novel dataset to analyze legislators' behavior in Uruguay's Parliament. Comparing the positions of legislators based on floor speeches and roll-call voting, it discusses the relationship between discourse and voting among individual legislators and parties. The dataset contains more than 57,000 speeches from more than 1,000 Uruguayan legislators between 1985 and 2015 and its related R package. The study est…
Del pluralismo incómodo a la comodidad del pluralismo
Between Professionalization, "Partidización" and the Specter of 'Perestroika Movement'" (Vol.35 (1)).Because it is largely empirically grounded, I do not reject most of the descriptive and analytic side of the paper.Instead, my note criticizes a set of final comments without empirical evidence, value-driven and prejudiced regarding a minority of Uruguayan scholars.This minority that holds and promotes some of the theoretical and methodological st…
Uruguay
trabajo se divide en cinco secciones.La primera repasa el contexto macroeconómico de mediano plazo, así como algunos indicadores vinculados a la pobreza y la distribución del ingreso.La segunda sección se centra en la asunción del nuevo gobierno electo en las elecciones nacionales de 2009.en particular, esta sección describe y analiza la elaboración de la agenda del nuevo gobierno liderado por el presidente José mujica, la definición de un nuevo …
From Patronage to Program
This article explains the unanticipated emergence of party-oriented legislators and rising party discipline in Brazil since the early 1990s. The authors contend that deputies in Brazil became increasingly party oriented because the utilities of party-programmatic and patronage-based electoral strategies shifted with market reforms that created a programmatic cleavage in Brazilian politics and diminished the resource base for state patronage. The …
Uruguay
trabajo se divide en cinco secciones.La primera repasa el contexto macroeconómico de mediano plazo, así como algunos indicadores vinculados a la pobreza y la distribución del ingreso.La segunda sección se centra en la asunción del nuevo gobierno electo en las elecciones nacionales de 2009.en particular, esta sección describe y analiza la elaboración de la agenda del nuevo gobierno liderado por el presidente José mujica, la definición de un nuevo …
Factions with clout
We investigate bill passage by party factions in Uruguay and show that those joining cabinet coalitions earn policy influence. The policy advantage of coalition is therefore not collected by the president alone, as often implied: partners acquire clout in law-making and use it to pass bills of their own and to strike deals with outside factions. Analysis of all bills initiated between 1985 and 2005 reveals that the odds of passing a bill sponsore…
Uruguay 2013
Este artículo analiza la coyuntura política de Uruguay durante 2013. La primera sección muestra una evolución del contexto socioeconómico en el que ha navegado Uruguay durante los últimos cinco años, haciendo hincapié en los resultados recientes en algunas áreas específicas de política pública. La segunda sección se concentra en la actividad del Poder Ejecutivo, como el principal agente en la fijación de la agenda de gobierno, mediante la activid…
Del pluralismo incómodo a la comodidad del pluralismo
Between Professionalization, "Partidización" and the Specter of 'Perestroika Movement'" (Vol.35 (1)).Because it is largely empirically grounded, I do not reject most of the descriptive and analytic side of the paper.Instead, my note criticizes a set of final comments without empirical evidence, value-driven and prejudiced regarding a minority of Uruguayan scholars.This minority that holds and promotes some of the theoretical and methodological st…
The International Monetary Fund, Party System Institutionalization, and Protest in Latin America
Extant studies have documented a positive correlation between country participation in International Monetary Fund-sponsored programs and collective protests in Latin America. However, anecdotal evidence indicates that there is a great deal of variation in the number of protests in recipient countries across the region. This article provides a theoretical argument that explains how the fund interacts with the level of party system institutionaliz…
The Electoral Success of the Left in Latin America
Why have moderate electorates elected and reelected leftist governments in Latin America over the last twenty years? Scholars who rely on the classic Downsian logic of the median voter theorem have observed a process of ideological moderation among the most salient left-wing parties in the region. However, there have been no systematic attempts to evaluate the moderation thesis at the comparative level, either across Latin America or within cases…
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies
What explains political polarization across developing democracies? In contrast to extant studies, this article develops a novel argument that links electoral (in)stability at the party system level with varying levels of polarization. Specifically, we claim that increasing levels of electoral volatility generate high levels of uncertainty among partisan elites, which respond by setting clear policy positions that are frequently far away from the…
Estimating Parties' Policy Positions in Uruguay
This research note takes advantage of a novel dataset to analyze legislators' behavior in Uruguay's Parliament. Comparing the positions of legislators based on floor speeches and roll-call voting, it discusses the relationship between discourse and voting among individual legislators and parties. The dataset contains more than 57,000 speeches from more than 1,000 Uruguayan legislators between 1985 and 2015 and its related R package. The study est…
The Role of Electoral Coordination in Party Formation
What is the origin of the Frente Amplio? While most contributions focus on party-building strategies and the electoral success of the Left, scholars have overlooked the previous process of party formation. This paper studies the Frente Amplio's formation in 1971 as a case of complete electoral coordination between extant parties, factions and individual left-wing politicians who understood the electoral inefficiencies of competing with each other…
Political science (10 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Public Policy and Governance (4 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works)