Argentina

How a politician’s gender shapes citizen responses to performance affects electoral accountability and who gets rewarded or punished in office. Existing research offers competing expectations: some studies argue voters hold women to higher standards and punish them more harshly for wrongdoing, while others suggest voters see men as more agentic and therefore pay more attention to men’s performance. Gustavo Diaz, Virginia Oliveros, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, and Matthew S. Winters test which dynamic dominates in a context with relatively few women officeholders.

Donald Grasse, Jennifer Gandhi, and Pearce Edwards ask whether prosecuting perpetrators of dictatorship-era repression strengthens public support for human rights and for the courts that enforce them. Trials are central to transitional justice: they can signal accountability and discourage future abuses, but they can also spotlight the political nature of post-authoritarian reckonings and undermine faith in judicial institutions.

This study examines the effectiveness of women and men legislators in Argentina (1983-2007) regarding bill approval. Contrary to expectations, gender itself does not directly impact legislative success when controlling for other factors.

The introduction of impeachment resolutions against presidents in Argentina and Brazil often seems puzzling, as many fail to succeed. This study explores two main hypotheses: one suggests legislators use these resolutions primarily for oversight purposes, even if they know success is unlikely, thereby weakening presidential approval rates through exposure of misconduct.

Why do politicians pursue legislative careers despite executive positions often being more prestigious or lucrative?

Does heightened party competition translate into more political activism?

This study investigates why wealthier individuals in Buenos Aires might surprisingly endorse redistribution policies, despite conventional economic expectations.

This article argues that compulsory voting encourages political parties to shift toward programmatic vote seeking and away from clientelistic tactics like vote buying. Across multiple studies, including cross-national analyses comparing countries with mandatory voting (e.g., Thailand) and optional systems, synthetic control methods analyzing regional reforms in places like Argentina, and direct tests using list experiments measuring party behavior changes, the findings consistently support this theory.

Almost four decades after Argentina ceded regional primacy to Brazil, the transition unfolded peacefully and cooperatively — a puzzle for structural theories and for analogies drawn to a possible US–China transition.

A prototype system for diagnosing electoral fraud using only vote counts was developed and evaluated.

This article explores how political party leaders strategically manage local brokers to extract essential services within electoral democracies.

Lucas Núñez examines whether Argentine voters cast ballots strategically or expressively in the 2013 Senate election for the City of Buenos Aires. The question matters because many models of electoral behavior predict that voters facing the risk of wasted votes will shift their choices between a primary and a general election to influence outcomes, but actual behavior in multi-stage and fragmented party systems is unevenly observed.

This paper examines the evolution of the institutional presidency — the cluster of agencies that directly support the chief executive — in Argentina and Brazil since redemocratization in the 1980s. The central question is what explains changes in the size of the institutional presidency and the types of agencies that compose it.