We explore the impact of issue framing on individual attitudes toward international trade. Based on a survey experiment fielded in Argentina during 2007, which reproduces the setup of earlier studies in the United States, we show that individuals' position in the economy and material concerns...

This presentation discusses the policymaking process in Latin America and the real actors involved. The group structure, size, market incorporation and political incorporation all play a part. This presentation was presented at the IDB Seminar "Brainstorming Session: The Political Economy of...

To whom should parties redistribute clientelistic goods? Should they target core voters that are physically proximate to the parties' networks or should they target off-the-network voters in an effort to expand their constituency and sway new voters? In this paper we take on one of the ost...

Following the research strategy put in practice in the project behind Stein et al. (2008), Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies, this project will be a collective and interactive process among various country teams and the coordinators. We will build a number of country...