Rodrigo Zarazaga

Biographic Data

ID809014
NAMERodrigo Zarazaga
GIVEN NAMESRodrigo
FAMILY NAMEZarazaga
SIGNATUREZARAZAGA R
AFFILIATIONSConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
ORCID0000-0002-2858-3581
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS95
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Poverty Shaping Politics: Machine Parties and Their Unexpected Challengers

    Open AccessRodrigo ZarazagaBOOKPoverty Shaping Politics2025

    Drawing on substantial original interviews and fieldwork data from Argentina's marginalized urban areas, Poverty Shaping Politics reveals how the spatial segregation of slums and vulnerable neighborhoods compels the poor to seek out local political brokers to access resources, while politicians depend on these brokers to navigate poor areas and garner political support. Rodrigo Zarazaga uniquely demonstrates that the establishment of broker netwo…

  • Buying stones: Welfare spending and protests in Argentina, 2008–2019

    Open AccessRomina Del Tredici, Lucas I González et al.ARTICLEGovernance2022References: 17

    Why do some governments manage to curb protest while others cannot and turmoil escalates to a social outbreak? This study proposes a theoretical argument that specifies how discretionary spending reduces conflict, highlighting the role of social movements in managing protests. It examines this and alternative arguments in Argentina, a country with strong social movements and historically large mobilizations, using statistical analysis with an ori…

  • The Most Vulnerable Poor: Clientelism Among Slum Dwellers

    Open AccessMaría Victoria Murillo, Virginia Oliveros et al.ARTICLEStudies in Comparative…2021Cited by: 10References: 54

  • Household-Based Clientelism: Brokers’ Allocation of Temporary Public Works Programs in Argentina

    Open AccessLucas Ronconi, Rodrigo ZarazagaARTICLEStudies in Comparative…2019Cited by: 1References: 29

  • The Tragedy of Clientelism: Opting Children Out

    Open AccessLucas Ronconi, Rodrigo ZarazagaARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2017

  • Party machines and voter-customized rewards strategies

    Open AccessRodrigo ZarazagaARTICLEJournal of Theoretical Politics2016Cited by: 12References: 19

    Previous works on vote-buying have highlighted that an informational advantage allows party machines to efficiently distribute discretionary transfers to voters. However, the microfoundations that allow party machines to electorally exploit their informational advantage have not yet been elucidated. The probabilistic model in this paper provides the microfounded mechanism that explains how party machines translate, with a voter-customized strateg…

  • Brokers Beyond Clientelism: A New Perspective Through the Argentine Case

    Open AccessRodrigo ZarazagaARTICLELatin American Politics and Society2014Cited by: 72References: 13

    Party machines and brokers have been widely researched in political science since 1950, yet a full description of brokers' roles is still missing. This article contributes by describing in detail the many roles brokers perform for their parties and explaining why each broker performs all these roles. In particular, it shows that besides fulfilling clientelistic strategies, brokers perform important executive governability functions once their par…