Rafael Piñeiro-Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 791791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafael Piñeiro-Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafael |
| FAMILY NAME | Piñeiro-Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | PIÑEIRO-RODRÍGUEZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Católica del Uruguay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1703-2637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Labor law and workplace injuries
Intervening public spaces by subtraction
Activating without Transforming
We analyze how new technologies can be used to foster individual engagement that limits deliberation and reduces people's capacity for political action within parties. We present the results of an analysis of the case of the Argentinean Propuesta Republicana (PRO). Using data from in-depth interviews with key actors-party elites and political consultants-we show that new technologies helped to mobilize almost 1 million volunteers in presidential …
Disrupting Compliance
Unorganized Politics
Extant theories posit that political conflict affords favorable circumstances for successful party building. However, crises do not necessarily engender the emergence of new parties with the capacity to integrate discontent. In this in-depth analysis of Chile, we show how lowering barriers to entry inadvertently precluded the development of a national political organization. We describe the nature of new political actors who emerged from the cycl…
How the exercise of the right to information (RTI) affects trust in political institutions
Domestic isomorphic pressures in the design of FOI oversight institutions in Latin America
Even though many countries in Latin America have adopted FOI Laws, there are significant differences in the institutional design of FOI oversight institutions. Most explanations highlight the role of political competition in motivating political actors to design strong de jure FOI oversight institutions. The design of FOI oversight institutions in Chile, Peru and Uruguay, however, cannot fully be explained by political competition. We show how is…
Agents of Representation
Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives derived from electoral competition. However, representation is contingent upon the organizational structure of parties. The connection between a party and an organized constituency is not limited to electoral strategy; it includes an organic connection through permanent f…
Political parties, diminished subtypes, and democracy
There is a resurgence of interest in political parties. This resurgent interest embraces a minimalist definition of political parties, according to which any group that competes in elections and receives a handful of votes qualifies as a party. Parties, however, are expected to contribute to democratic representation, and the party politics literature has extensively shown that many “parties” do not fulfill this expectation. These entities that p…
Uruguay 2019
El año 2019 supuso cambios en el sistema político uruguayo. El Frente Amplio (FA), partido de centro izquierda en el gobierno desde 2005, perdiÃ3 la presidencia a manos de una coaliciÃ3n de partidos de centro-derecha, la CoaliciÃ3n Multicolor liderada por Luis Lacalle Pou del Partido Nacional (PN). Este artículo ilustra la importancia de las variables econÃ3micas en las elecciones presidenciales en el Uruguay. La alternancia de partidos en el gob…
Stability and incorporation
Party system institutionalization (PSI) is a critical dimension of modern democracies. However, conventional approaches to institutionalization do not include party systems’ ability to adapt and respond to challenges that emanate from society, one of the crucial traits in Huntington’s definition of institutionalization. We discuss conventional approaches to the analysis of PSI. Building upon the idea of social orders put forth by North, Wallis, a…
Preregistering Qualitative Research
Preregistrations-records made a priori about study designs and analysis plans and placed in open repositories-are thought to strengthen the credibility and transparency of research. Different authors have put forth arguments in favor of introducing this practice in qualitative research and made suggestions for what to include in a qualitative preregistration form. The goal of this study was to gauge and understand what parts of preregistration te…
How Party Activism Survives
Political parties with activists are in decline due to various external shocks. Societal changes, like the emergence of new technologies of communication have diminished the role and number of activists, while party elites increasingly can make do without grassroots activists. However, recent scholarship concerning different democracies has shown how activism still matters for representation. This book contributes to this literature by analyzing …
Efficacy and the Reproduction of Political Activism
The professionalization of politics and the disappearance of party organizations based on activists seems an inescapable trend. This article shows, by studying the Broad Front of Uruguay as a deviant case, the relevance of organizational rules for explaining the reproduction of party activism. Using data from both an online survey of people differing in their levels of engagement with the Broad Front and in-depth interviews with party activists, …
A field experiment on bureaucratic discretionary bias under FOI laws
Quién maneja la caja? Financiamiento político y estructuras partidarias en Uruguay
This article analyzes the behavior of the political parties in Uruguay in relation to electoral finance, as a window for understanding the logics of the way parties function. This analysis of the case of Uruguay reveals how, under the same electoral system, with the same norms for the regulation of spending and funding, and the same system of a public subsidy per vote, the practices of financing vary from one party to another and also within the …
The Engagement Curve
Considerable research has been conducted on the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and political engagement. However, there is little consensus on the exact nature of the relationship, and considerable variation in the relationship exists even among countries with similar levels of inequality. This lack of clarity in the literature exists because the impact of inequality on engagement is not constant, but changes depending on the strat…
Uruguay 2015
El repaso de los principales eventos políticos ocurridos durante el año da cuenta de las dificultades que tienen los partidos como el Frente Amplio para gobernar bajo mandatos de izquierda cuando las perspectivas económicas son negativas.La pérdida de dinamismo económico, las presiones inflacionarias, el deterioro de las cuentas públicas y la concomitante reducción del espacio fiscal, catalizaron los conflictos entre el gobierno y sus bases socia…
Pre-Analysis Plans for Qualitative Research
The design and registration of Pre-analysis Plans (PAP) represents a significant improvement in social science research transparency.This tool is commonly used in experimental research.In this research note, we suggest extending the use of PAP to qualitative research.In recent decades, researchers have produced several methodological innovations, which have improved the quality of qualitative analysis.New tools also have been developed and resear…
The Quest for Good Governance
Uruguay improved its levels of universalism in the last fifteen years. This improvement is due to a prolonged process of transformation in Uruguayan politics from competitive particularism to an open access regime. We claim that the change in the way that parties compete for votes - from clientelistic to programmatic strategy – is the cause of this transformation. In order to provide descriptive evidence of the main features of this governance re…
A Natural Experiment in Political Decentralization
The potential democratizing effect of political decentralization reforms has been a matter of substantial theoretical and empirical debate. This article analyzes the effect of local democratic institution building on the political attitudes and behavior of citizens living in small towns in Uruguay. More specifically, using a natural experiment design, this research seeks to establish the causal impact of recently established elections of local au…
Gasto en campaña y éxito electoral de los candidatos a diputados en chile 2005
Al contrario de lo que señala parte importante de la teoría, el gasto de campaña tiene un efecto significativo sobre el éxito electoral de los incumbentes en la elección de diputados de 2005 en Chile. Más aún, los rendimientos electorales del gasto son mayores para los candidatos con más de un período en el cargo. El gasto de campaña parece no sólo sumarse a las "ventajas" de los incumbentes, sino multiplicar su efecto sobre el rendimiento electo…
Partidos y sistemas de partidos en América Latina
en base a la identificación de corrientes ideológicas y patrones de competencia nacionales, esta nota de investigación presenta una clasificación de los partidos políticos y sistemas de partido de américa Latina.La clasificación que presentamos se basa en un primer análisis de los resultados de una encuesta a expertos realizada entre 2007 y 2009, para sondear las características de los partidos políticos de la región.en base a una estrategia de a…
La selección de candidatos en América Latina
Sistemas electorales y corrupción
Esta nota de investigacion aborda la relacion entre sistemas electorales y corrupcion. Para esto, discute las visiones teoricas implicitas en las explicaciones divergentes sobre que sistemas electorales incentivan y desincentivan la corrupcion. En particular, pone de manifiesto la paradoja de que los mismos sistemas electorales que disuaden la corrupcion son los que estimulan la personalizacion, y por lo tanto el gasto electoral. Finalmente, se i…
Preregistering Qualitative Research
Preregistrations-records made a priori about study designs and analysis plans and placed in open repositories-are thought to strengthen the credibility and transparency of research. Different authors have put forth arguments in favor of introducing this practice in qualitative research and made suggestions for what to include in a qualitative preregistration form. The goal of this study was to gauge and understand what parts of preregistration te…
Political parties, diminished subtypes, and democracy
There is a resurgence of interest in political parties. This resurgent interest embraces a minimalist definition of political parties, according to which any group that competes in elections and receives a handful of votes qualifies as a party. Parties, however, are expected to contribute to democratic representation, and the party politics literature has extensively shown that many “parties” do not fulfill this expectation. These entities that p…
Stability and incorporation
Party system institutionalization (PSI) is a critical dimension of modern democracies. However, conventional approaches to institutionalization do not include party systems’ ability to adapt and respond to challenges that emanate from society, one of the crucial traits in Huntington’s definition of institutionalization. We discuss conventional approaches to the analysis of PSI. Building upon the idea of social orders put forth by North, Wallis, a…
A field experiment on bureaucratic discretionary bias under FOI laws
Agents of Representation
Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives derived from electoral competition. However, representation is contingent upon the organizational structure of parties. The connection between a party and an organized constituency is not limited to electoral strategy; it includes an organic connection through permanent f…
Partidos y sistemas de partidos en América Latina
en base a la identificación de corrientes ideológicas y patrones de competencia nacionales, esta nota de investigación presenta una clasificación de los partidos políticos y sistemas de partido de américa Latina.La clasificación que presentamos se basa en un primer análisis de los resultados de una encuesta a expertos realizada entre 2007 y 2009, para sondear las características de los partidos políticos de la región.en base a una estrategia de a…
Efficacy and the Reproduction of Political Activism
The professionalization of politics and the disappearance of party organizations based on activists seems an inescapable trend. This article shows, by studying the Broad Front of Uruguay as a deviant case, the relevance of organizational rules for explaining the reproduction of party activism. Using data from both an online survey of people differing in their levels of engagement with the Broad Front and in-depth interviews with party activists, …
Uruguay 2015
El repaso de los principales eventos políticos ocurridos durante el año da cuenta de las dificultades que tienen los partidos como el Frente Amplio para gobernar bajo mandatos de izquierda cuando las perspectivas económicas son negativas.La pérdida de dinamismo económico, las presiones inflacionarias, el deterioro de las cuentas públicas y la concomitante reducción del espacio fiscal, catalizaron los conflictos entre el gobierno y sus bases socia…
Pre-Analysis Plans for Qualitative Research
The design and registration of Pre-analysis Plans (PAP) represents a significant improvement in social science research transparency.This tool is commonly used in experimental research.In this research note, we suggest extending the use of PAP to qualitative research.In recent decades, researchers have produced several methodological innovations, which have improved the quality of qualitative analysis.New tools also have been developed and resear…
Gasto en campaña y éxito electoral de los candidatos a diputados en chile 2005
Al contrario de lo que señala parte importante de la teoría, el gasto de campaña tiene un efecto significativo sobre el éxito electoral de los incumbentes en la elección de diputados de 2005 en Chile. Más aún, los rendimientos electorales del gasto son mayores para los candidatos con más de un período en el cargo. El gasto de campaña parece no sólo sumarse a las "ventajas" de los incumbentes, sino multiplicar su efecto sobre el rendimiento electo…
Unorganized Politics
Extant theories posit that political conflict affords favorable circumstances for successful party building. However, crises do not necessarily engender the emergence of new parties with the capacity to integrate discontent. In this in-depth analysis of Chile, we show how lowering barriers to entry inadvertently precluded the development of a national political organization. We describe the nature of new political actors who emerged from the cycl…
Domestic isomorphic pressures in the design of FOI oversight institutions in Latin America
Even though many countries in Latin America have adopted FOI Laws, there are significant differences in the institutional design of FOI oversight institutions. Most explanations highlight the role of political competition in motivating political actors to design strong de jure FOI oversight institutions. The design of FOI oversight institutions in Chile, Peru and Uruguay, however, cannot fully be explained by political competition. We show how is…
Uruguay 2019
El año 2019 supuso cambios en el sistema político uruguayo. El Frente Amplio (FA), partido de centro izquierda en el gobierno desde 2005, perdiÃ3 la presidencia a manos de una coaliciÃ3n de partidos de centro-derecha, la CoaliciÃ3n Multicolor liderada por Luis Lacalle Pou del Partido Nacional (PN). Este artículo ilustra la importancia de las variables econÃ3micas en las elecciones presidenciales en el Uruguay. La alternancia de partidos en el gob…
The Quest for Good Governance
Uruguay improved its levels of universalism in the last fifteen years. This improvement is due to a prolonged process of transformation in Uruguayan politics from competitive particularism to an open access regime. We claim that the change in the way that parties compete for votes - from clientelistic to programmatic strategy – is the cause of this transformation. In order to provide descriptive evidence of the main features of this governance re…
A Natural Experiment in Political Decentralization
The potential democratizing effect of political decentralization reforms has been a matter of substantial theoretical and empirical debate. This article analyzes the effect of local democratic institution building on the political attitudes and behavior of citizens living in small towns in Uruguay. More specifically, using a natural experiment design, this research seeks to establish the causal impact of recently established elections of local au…
Activating without Transforming
We analyze how new technologies can be used to foster individual engagement that limits deliberation and reduces people's capacity for political action within parties. We present the results of an analysis of the case of the Argentinean Propuesta Republicana (PRO). Using data from in-depth interviews with key actors-party elites and political consultants-we show that new technologies helped to mobilize almost 1 million volunteers in presidential …
How the exercise of the right to information (RTI) affects trust in political institutions
Sistemas electorales y corrupción
Esta nota de investigacion aborda la relacion entre sistemas electorales y corrupcion. Para esto, discute las visiones teoricas implicitas en las explicaciones divergentes sobre que sistemas electorales incentivan y desincentivan la corrupcion. En particular, pone de manifiesto la paradoja de que los mismos sistemas electorales que disuaden la corrupcion son los que estimulan la personalizacion, y por lo tanto el gasto electoral. Finalmente, se i…
Partidos y sistemas de partidos en América Latina
en base a la identificación de corrientes ideológicas y patrones de competencia nacionales, esta nota de investigación presenta una clasificación de los partidos políticos y sistemas de partido de américa Latina.La clasificación que presentamos se basa en un primer análisis de los resultados de una encuesta a expertos realizada entre 2007 y 2009, para sondear las características de los partidos políticos de la región.en base a una estrategia de a…
La selección de candidatos en América Latina
Gasto en campaña y éxito electoral de los candidatos a diputados en chile 2005
Al contrario de lo que señala parte importante de la teoría, el gasto de campaña tiene un efecto significativo sobre el éxito electoral de los incumbentes en la elección de diputados de 2005 en Chile. Más aún, los rendimientos electorales del gasto son mayores para los candidatos con más de un período en el cargo. El gasto de campaña parece no sólo sumarse a las "ventajas" de los incumbentes, sino multiplicar su efecto sobre el rendimiento electo…
A Natural Experiment in Political Decentralization
The potential democratizing effect of political decentralization reforms has been a matter of substantial theoretical and empirical debate. This article analyzes the effect of local democratic institution building on the political attitudes and behavior of citizens living in small towns in Uruguay. More specifically, using a natural experiment design, this research seeks to establish the causal impact of recently established elections of local au…
The Engagement Curve
Considerable research has been conducted on the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and political engagement. However, there is little consensus on the exact nature of the relationship, and considerable variation in the relationship exists even among countries with similar levels of inequality. This lack of clarity in the literature exists because the impact of inequality on engagement is not constant, but changes depending on the strat…
Uruguay 2015
El repaso de los principales eventos políticos ocurridos durante el año da cuenta de las dificultades que tienen los partidos como el Frente Amplio para gobernar bajo mandatos de izquierda cuando las perspectivas económicas son negativas.La pérdida de dinamismo económico, las presiones inflacionarias, el deterioro de las cuentas públicas y la concomitante reducción del espacio fiscal, catalizaron los conflictos entre el gobierno y sus bases socia…
Pre-Analysis Plans for Qualitative Research
The design and registration of Pre-analysis Plans (PAP) represents a significant improvement in social science research transparency.This tool is commonly used in experimental research.In this research note, we suggest extending the use of PAP to qualitative research.In recent decades, researchers have produced several methodological innovations, which have improved the quality of qualitative analysis.New tools also have been developed and resear…
The Quest for Good Governance
Uruguay improved its levels of universalism in the last fifteen years. This improvement is due to a prolonged process of transformation in Uruguayan politics from competitive particularism to an open access regime. We claim that the change in the way that parties compete for votes - from clientelistic to programmatic strategy – is the cause of this transformation. In order to provide descriptive evidence of the main features of this governance re…
A field experiment on bureaucratic discretionary bias under FOI laws
Quién maneja la caja? Financiamiento político y estructuras partidarias en Uruguay
This article analyzes the behavior of the political parties in Uruguay in relation to electoral finance, as a window for understanding the logics of the way parties function. This analysis of the case of Uruguay reveals how, under the same electoral system, with the same norms for the regulation of spending and funding, and the same system of a public subsidy per vote, the practices of financing vary from one party to another and also within the …
How Party Activism Survives
Political parties with activists are in decline due to various external shocks. Societal changes, like the emergence of new technologies of communication have diminished the role and number of activists, while party elites increasingly can make do without grassroots activists. However, recent scholarship concerning different democracies has shown how activism still matters for representation. This book contributes to this literature by analyzing …
Efficacy and the Reproduction of Political Activism
The professionalization of politics and the disappearance of party organizations based on activists seems an inescapable trend. This article shows, by studying the Broad Front of Uruguay as a deviant case, the relevance of organizational rules for explaining the reproduction of party activism. Using data from both an online survey of people differing in their levels of engagement with the Broad Front and in-depth interviews with party activists, …
Uruguay 2019
El año 2019 supuso cambios en el sistema político uruguayo. El Frente Amplio (FA), partido de centro izquierda en el gobierno desde 2005, perdiÃ3 la presidencia a manos de una coaliciÃ3n de partidos de centro-derecha, la CoaliciÃ3n Multicolor liderada por Luis Lacalle Pou del Partido Nacional (PN). Este artículo ilustra la importancia de las variables econÃ3micas en las elecciones presidenciales en el Uruguay. La alternancia de partidos en el gob…
Stability and incorporation
Party system institutionalization (PSI) is a critical dimension of modern democracies. However, conventional approaches to institutionalization do not include party systems’ ability to adapt and respond to challenges that emanate from society, one of the crucial traits in Huntington’s definition of institutionalization. We discuss conventional approaches to the analysis of PSI. Building upon the idea of social orders put forth by North, Wallis, a…
Preregistering Qualitative Research
Preregistrations-records made a priori about study designs and analysis plans and placed in open repositories-are thought to strengthen the credibility and transparency of research. Different authors have put forth arguments in favor of introducing this practice in qualitative research and made suggestions for what to include in a qualitative preregistration form. The goal of this study was to gauge and understand what parts of preregistration te…
Political parties, diminished subtypes, and democracy
There is a resurgence of interest in political parties. This resurgent interest embraces a minimalist definition of political parties, according to which any group that competes in elections and receives a handful of votes qualifies as a party. Parties, however, are expected to contribute to democratic representation, and the party politics literature has extensively shown that many “parties” do not fulfill this expectation. These entities that p…
Domestic isomorphic pressures in the design of FOI oversight institutions in Latin America
Even though many countries in Latin America have adopted FOI Laws, there are significant differences in the institutional design of FOI oversight institutions. Most explanations highlight the role of political competition in motivating political actors to design strong de jure FOI oversight institutions. The design of FOI oversight institutions in Chile, Peru and Uruguay, however, cannot fully be explained by political competition. We show how is…
Agents of Representation
Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives derived from electoral competition. However, representation is contingent upon the organizational structure of parties. The connection between a party and an organized constituency is not limited to electoral strategy; it includes an organic connection through permanent f…
How the exercise of the right to information (RTI) affects trust in political institutions
Disrupting Compliance
Unorganized Politics
Extant theories posit that political conflict affords favorable circumstances for successful party building. However, crises do not necessarily engender the emergence of new parties with the capacity to integrate discontent. In this in-depth analysis of Chile, we show how lowering barriers to entry inadvertently precluded the development of a national political organization. We describe the nature of new political actors who emerged from the cycl…
Intervening public spaces by subtraction
Activating without Transforming
We analyze how new technologies can be used to foster individual engagement that limits deliberation and reduces people's capacity for political action within parties. We present the results of an analysis of the case of the Argentinean Propuesta Republicana (PRO). Using data from in-depth interviews with key actors-party elites and political consultants-we show that new technologies helped to mobilize almost 1 million volunteers in presidential …
Labor law and workplace injuries
Political science (21 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Latin American socio-political dynamics (6 works)