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The so‐called new municipalism has spread in different geographical settings as an attempt to democratise the economy and politics in the local sphere, in response to contemporary capitalist contradictions. However, it has encountered political, economic, and scale limitations that have prevented it from consolidating alternatives for territorial t...
The enforcement of labor informality is subject to electoral motivations, and political parties on the left and right have different incentives to do so. While leftist governments are more lenient not to harm their informal electorate, right-wing incumbents face an electoral dilemma: the part of its constituency that benefits from informal work is...
Megaprojects are electoral magnets due to their transformative power, but they also raise strong opposition. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design, this paper assesses the impact on presidential elections of Mapuche attacks and protests at two strategic road infrastructures. Mapuche uses a repertoire of non-conventional actions in their struggle...
RESUMEN La mayoría de literatura académica sobre transiciones proviene del Norte global y se adecúa a sus marcos epistemológicos y estructuras socio-económicas (visiones tecnologicistas acríticas de la racionalidad capitalista hegemónica). Este artículo pretende aportar una visión desde y para el Sur sobre cómo entender las transiciones ecosociales...
Do voters punish political leaders in the aftermath of a natural disaster? Using a Regression Discontinuity Design, this article explores how floods affect local electoral results in Chile. Taking data from polling stations, our estimations show that, floods reduce the likelihood of incumbent candidates’ chances of winning in affected polling stati...
How do electoral incentives and institutional constraints vary as democracies consolidate? Are incumbents more inclined to behave opportunistically during transitions, or when the rules of the game are well established? Using Chile as a case study and exploiting panel data on public works investment at the municipal level, the article examines if t...
En este artículo se analiza la planificación de la movilidad en Vitoria-Gasteiz, una ciudad con un destacado compromiso a favor del medio ambiente. El análisis aborda los principales elementos innovadores del Plan de Movilidad Sostenible y Espacio Público, destacando su impacto sobre el patrón de movilidad y la recualificación del espacio público....
This article examines whether transfers to local governments in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile have been allocated to obtain electoral advantage. A large panel data set and fixed-effects estimations uncover two types of manipulations: grant fluctuations along the municipal election cycle and biases towards aligned municipalities. Notwithstandin...
This paper analyses the incidence of political factors and social capital on the allocation of public investment in the Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile. Considering panel data on a decentralized investment program distributed through local governments and a program that is geared directly to citizen organizations, the paper explores whether inves...
Former industrial premises provide material and symbolic resources for grassroots creative production, but planning is complex as these sites are transitory and excessive intervention may stifle creativity. This paper analyses the transformations of La Ribera (Bilbao), a mixed-use peninsula waiting to be redeveloped, where, in the meantime, creativ...
Distributive politics and spatial equity: the allocation of public investment in Chile. Regional Studies. This paper analyzes the influence of electoral concerns on investment distribution from the central government to Chilean municipalities. Drawing upon panel data, it shows that investment is mediated by pork-barrel and political budget cycles,...
Resumen En este trabajo analizamos el sector cultural y creativo de la CAPV para entender su peso dentro de la economía vasca, su evolución en los últimos ocho años y su distribución espacial, a partir de los datos estadísticos del Eustat. Nuestro análisis muestra que las industrias culturales y creativas representan el 5,7% de las empresas vascas,...
In the past 30 years, culture has been used as a means for revitalising neighbourhoods and branding the urban economy. Often, culture-led urban policies have had undesirable consequences in terms of rising rents, displacement of former residents and changes in the economic and retail landscape, i.e. gentrification. However, this process is not univ...
Tras la crisis de la deuda en América Latina se pusieron en marcha una serie de reformas y ajustes estructurales con el fin de estabilizar las econo-mías nacionales y reducir las fluctuaciones del ciclo económico. Por su parte, desde mediados de los años ochenta, los países desarrollados alcanzaron una mayor estabilidad en términos de inflación y c...
Tras la crisis de la deuda en América Latina se pusieron en marcha una serie de reformas y ajustes estructurales con el fin de estabilizar las economías nacionales y reducir las fluctuaciones del ciclo económico. Por su parte, desde mediados de los años ochenta, los países desarrollados alcanzaron una mayor estabilidad en términos de inflación y cr...
Efforts to promote infill development and to raise densities are growing in many cities around the world as a way to encourage urban sustainability. However, in cities polarized along socio-economic lines, the benefits of densification are not so evident. The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the contradictions of densification in Santiago de...
Efforts to promote infill development and to raise densities are growing in many
cities around the world as a way to encourage urban sustainability. However, in cities
polarized along socio-economic lines, the benefits of densification are not so evident. The
aim of this paper is to discuss some of the contradictions of densification in Santiago de...
El documento aborda diferentes aspectos de la interrelación global-local con la intención
de dar luz sobre algunas opciones de políticas a implementar desde una perspectiva
de Desarrollo Humano Local (DHL).
This article analyzes mobility planning in Vitoria-Gasteiz, a city with a strong commitment to the environment. The analysis addresses the main innovative elements of the Sustainable Mobility and Public Space Plan, emphasizing its impact on the mobility pattern and on re-qualifying the public space. Nevertheless, the analysis points at the limitati...
The literature on the relationship between the built environment and travel has identified population density and the mix of land uses as key characteristics of the urban form that affect travel patterns. However, in cities with strong sociospatial disparities it is not clear if these characteristics apply in the same way. In this paper we use regr...
Processes of neighborhood renewal and decline occur as cities evolve over time.
Households’ and firms’ location decisions drive real estate market demand to particular
areas, leading to periodical processes of change in neighborhoods’ socioeconomic
status. The aim of this paper is to analyze the uneven effects of the spatial growth of
Santiago de C...
Processes of neighborhood renewal and decline occur as cities evolve over time.
Households’ and firms’ location decisions drive real estate market demand to particular
areas, leading to periodical processes of change in neighborhoods’ socioeconomic
status. The aim of this paper is to analyze the uneven effects of the spatial growth of
Santiago de C...
RESUMEN:
Los factores socio-territoriales constituyen elementos determinantes de las estrategias de desarrollo local, ya que las características de los sistemas productivos o el tipo de institucionalidad condicionan las políticas. Sin embargo, dichas limitaciones pueden ser paliadas mediante actuaciones centradas en promocionar redes capaces de m...
