Browsing by Author "Alberti Chesta, Carla Andrea"

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    Bolivia: la democracia a una década del gobierno del MAS.
    (2016) Alberti Chesta, Carla Andrea
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    Fiscal Origins of Subnational Democracy: Evidence from Argentina
    (2022) Díaz Rioseco, Diego; Alberti Chesta, Carla Andrea
    Subnational governments are generally funded by fiscal rents, that is, transfers of centrally levied taxes. Existing literature concurs that fiscal federalism breeds rentierism and, consequently, hinders subnational democracy. However, in Argentina, fiscal rents do not always lead to low provincial contestation. Building on research on oil-based rentierism and fiscal federalism, we argue that this variation results from the provincial fiscal institutions that distribute central-government transfers from the province to municipalities. Specifically, we claim that as provincial fiscal institutions decentralize fiscal rents from the province to municipalities, they empower mayors to challenge governors. Conversely, as these institutions centralize rents at the province, they empower governors and weaken opposition from below. Using panel data and a comparison between Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz—the provinces that receive the largest fiscal transfers—we show that the effect of fiscal rents on incumbent party advantage decreases and eventually disappears as institutions become province-decentralizing.
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    Indigenous autonomy and Latin American state security in contexts of criminal violence: the cases of Cauca in Colombia and Guerrero in Mexico
    (2023) Mattiace, Shannan; Alberti Chesta, Carla Andrea
    Scholars writing on Indigenous autonomy in the Americas have focused mainly on social movement demands and on the implementation of laws that enshrine autonomy rights. The motives of state officials in enacting de jure legislation on autonomy have received less scholarly attention. In this research note, we examine the Cauca region of southwestern Colombia and the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. Both regions have similar percentages of Indigenous populations and have experienced high levels of violence and insecurity related to organized criminal groups (OCGs) in recent decades. Territorial autonomy was granted to Indigenous peoples in the 1991 Colombian constitution, while only weak Indigenous autonomy rights were laid out in the 2001 amendments to the Mexican constitution, leaving autonomy to be legislated by sub-national states. We suggest that state security motives may help explain variation in outcomes between these two cases and that more attention needs to be paid to Indigenous autonomy in the context of narco wars and criminal violence. Increasingly these wars are being played out in rural areas throughout Latin America where Indigenous and Afrodescendant peoples reside.
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