Browsing by Author "Díaz Rioseco, Diego"

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    Descentralización e inversión pública en infraestructura : propuestas para priorizar brechas de desarrollo territorial a nivel subnacional
    (Centro de Políticas Públicas UC, 2021) Orellana Ossandón, Arturo; Díaz Rioseco, Diego; Irarrázaval Irarrázaval, Felipe; Moreno Alba, Daniel Felipe
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    Do fiscal transfers affect local democracy?: lessons from Chilean Municipalities
    (2023) Alberti, Carla; Díaz Rioseco, Diego; Riveros, Ignacio
    Extant literature concurs that fiscal transfers affect local democracy when they grant subnational governments nontax revenue. Yet there is nonetheless a mismatch between this concept and existing measures, which consider the whole transfers local governments receive, including both tax and nontax revenue. This article studies the Fondo Común Municipal (FCM), the most important intergovernmental grant in Chile, and provides a novel measure of nontax revenue. It uses this measure alongside the whole FCM transfer to test the rentier hypothesis. On the one hand, it shows that both measures increase the incumbent party vote share, although the effect of our measure is smaller. On the other hand, it finds that the FCM transfer has an impact on the probability of reelection and the competitiveness of elections, but this effect disappears when using our measure. Overall, the findings suggest that rents from transfers do not lead to strong electoral dominance in unitary states.
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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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    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.
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    El secreto de mi éxito: seis caminos para llegar y permanecer en Valparaíso
    (2006) Díaz Rioseco, Diego; Gianinni, Pilar; Luna, Juan Pablo; Núñez, Rodrigo
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