We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet of democratization - the entry of new politicians. We show that initial levels of inequality...

Resumen: Este artículo describe una aproximación al proceso de formación de los costos políticoeconómicos que se generan para el Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá y para la comunidad regulada, a causa de la reglamentación de la tasa retributiva por el uso del agua, en el proceso de...

This paper examines the role of mass media in countering special interest group influence. I use the concentration of campaign contributions from Political Action Committees to proxy special interests´ capture US Senate candidates from 1980 to 2002, and compare the reaction of voters to...

Free media may not favor political accountability when other democratic institutions are weak, and may even bring undesirable unintended consequences. We propose a simple model in which politicians running for office may engage in coercion to obtain votes. A media scandal that exposes these...

A pesar de los avances en equidad de género en América Latina, existe aún una notable brecha en términos de participación política ciudadana. La investigación en América Latina, se ha concentrado en entender la política como ocupación, razón por la cual la relación de los ciudadanos...

This paper studies the effect of strengthening democracy, as captured by an increase in voting rights, on the incidence of violent civil conflict in nineteenth-century Colombia. Empirically studying the relationship between democracy and conflict is challenging, not only because of conceptual...

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program inColombia, Familias en Acción (FA), on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification we use discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths. We...

Die Europawahl 2024 hat in Deutschland zu einer Zweiteilung der politischen Landkarte geführt. Während in den westlichen Bundesländern überwiegend die Union zur stärksten Partei gekürt wird, dominiert im Osten die AfD. Dieser Wochenbericht untersucht, welche regionalen Faktoren im...

Die Europawahl 2024 hat in Deutschland zu einer Zweiteilung der politischen Landkarte geführt. Während in den westlichen Bundesländern überwiegend die Union zur stärksten Partei gekürt wird, dominiert im Osten die AfD. Dieser Wochenbericht untersucht, welche regionalen Faktoren im...