Browsing by Author "Visconti, Giancarlo"

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    Can Political Alignment Reduce Crime? Evidence from Chile
    (2022) Alberti, Carla; Díaz-Rioseco, Diego; Visconti, Giancarlo
    Research has shown that presidents tend to benefit local level copartisans when distributing resources, which can improve the provision of public goods, such as security. Considering that fear of crime is among the main concerns of citizens worldwide, we examine whether alignment affects criminality. Drawing on rich administrative data from Chile and a regression discontinuity design in close electoral races, we study the impact of alignment on a broad set of crimes against the person and property-related. We show that aligned municipalities experience a significant reduction in crimes that both affect property and occur in public. As a potential mechanism, we find that aligned municipalities receive more projects to improve urban infrastructure, thus making public spaces less vulnerable to crime.
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    Comportamiento diacrónico del Congreso en Chile: ¿crecimiento o estancamiento de su influencia?
    (2011) Visconti, Giancarlo
    Esta investigación examina el comportamiento diacrónico del Legislativo chileno desde 1990 hasta el 2009, estudiando las variables que influyen en sus niveles de productividad. Se observa que éstos no son homogéneos a través de los años, planteándose dos explicaciones principales: la primera es la existencia de ciertos ciclos políticos –el primer año de gobierno y las elecciones parlamentarias– y la segunda es un proceso institucional de largo plazo entendido como la acumulación de experiencia democrática del congreso. Estas variables explicativas son testeadas a través de un modelo de regresión logística, que permite concluir que bajo estas condiciones y procesos institucionales los congresistas presentan una mayor productividad legislativa, funcionando como un cuerpo coherente y coordinado
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    Gendered bureaucracies: Women mayors and the size and composition of local governments
    (WILEY, 2021) Alberti, Carla; Díaz Rioseco, Diego; Visconti, Giancarlo
    While women are underrepresented in politics, recent improvements in women's representation in legislative and executive bodies have spurred academic interest in the effects of electing women on a wide array of outcomes. Effects on bureaucracies, however, have received less attention. Do women mayors reform local bureaucracies differently than their men counterparts? We take advantage of rich administrative data from Chile to explore the effects of having a woman mayor on the size and gender composition of municipal bureaucracies. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral races, we find that women mayors reduce the size of local bureaucracies while simultaneously increasing the share of women public employees. Our findings thus show that women mayors' approach to bureaucratic reform once in office differs from that of their men counterparts, and contribute to existing research on the consequences of electing women.