Political Institutions

 

Separation of Powers

"Political Prowess or Lady Luck? Evaluating Chief Executives' Legislative Success Rates"
Journal of Politics, Vol 71, No.4: 1-15, 2009
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“Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Presidentialism and Parliamentarism”
with Adam Przeworski and Jose Antonio Cheibub
British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34: 565-587, 2004
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"Governos de Coalizao nas Democracias Presidencialistas e Parlamentaristas"
with Adam Przeworski and Jose Antonio Cheibub
Dados, Vol. 45, No. 2: 187-218
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“The not-so-popular branch: Bicameralism as a counter-majoritarian device” with Matias Iaryczower and Gabriel Katz
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Federalism

“Federalism, Argentine-Style” with Mariano Tommasi, and Pablo Spiller , in Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi.
The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy in Argentina, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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“The sub-national connection: legislative coalitions, cross-voting, and policymaking in Argentina”
in Flavia Fiorucci and Marcus Klein (Eds.). The Argentine Crisis of the Millennium,
Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2004.
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"Fiscal Federalism in Argentina: Policies, Politics, and Institutional Reform"with Pablo Sanguinetti and Mariano Tommasi
Economia , Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), 2001.
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"An 'Incomplete-Contracts' Approcah to Intergovernmental Transfer Systems in Latin America" with Mariano Tommasi
in Burki and Perry (eds.) Decentralization and Accountability of the Public Sector , Washington D.C., The World Bank, 2000.
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"Le labyrinthe fiscal de l'Argentine et la theorie des couts de transaction en politique" with Mariano Tommasi
Problemes d'Amerique Latine , Paris, No. 1037, 2000.
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"Why is Argentina's Fiscal Federalism so Inefficient? Entering the Labyrinth" with Mariano Tommasi
Journal of Applied Economics , Vol. 2, No. 1, 1999.
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Last edited:  January, 2009