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Pablo Beramendi

Pablo Beramendi CV

Professor of Political Science
Political Science
pablo.beramendi@duke.edu
207 Gross Hall, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
207 Gross Hall, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

The Electoral Effects of Large-Scale Infrastructure Policies: Evidence from a Rural Electrification Scheme in Brazil

Journal Article Journal of Politics · April 1, 2024 This article analyzes the conditions under which major infrastructural investments generate electoral returns. It addresses when and how the constraints imposed by myopic voters under democracy can be overcome. We argue that sustained policy spillovers are ... Full text Cite

Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations

Journal Article Regional Studies · January 1, 2024 This paper focuses on political decentralisation as an institutional determinant of the level and spatial distribution of infant mortality rates (IMR). At the national level, we show that political decentralisation is linked to lower IMR, but these benefit ... Full text Cite

Polarization and Accountability in Covid Times

Journal Article Frontiers in Political Science · January 19, 2022 We analyze the relationship between accountability and polarization in the context of the COVID crisis. We make three points. First, when voters perceive the out-party to be ideologically extreme, they are less likely to hold incumbents accountable for poo ... Full text Cite

Disparate geography and the origins of tax capacity

Journal Article Review of International Organizations · January 1, 2021 We establish a conceptual and empirical link between the geographic distribution of economic endowments within a nation and long-run fiscal capacity. Economic geography informs elites’ incentives to facilitate large-scale central taxing bureaucracies. Sect ... Full text Cite

The Political Geography of the Eurocrisis

Journal Article World Politics · October 1, 2020 The European Union provided a mixed response to the 2008 financial crisis. On the one hand, it refused to pursue fiscal integration through a common budget; on the other, it introduced significant transfers between countries that were designed to produce f ... Full text Cite

Fiscal decentralization and the distributive incidence of the Great Recession

Scholarly Edition · July 2, 2020 This paper argues that fiscal decentralization is one important explanation for variation in distributive outcomes following the Great Recession. Using a difference-in-differences approach, it examines how fiscal decentralization mediated the link between ... Full text Cite

Democracy under high inequality: Capacity, spending, and participation

Journal Article Journal of Politics · July 1, 2020 Contrary to the view that inequality reduces turnout, political participation among low-income voters is higher in democracies with high levels of inequality and intermediate levels of state capacity. We address this puzzle by analyzing the link between po ... Full text Cite

Multi-modes for Detecting Experimental Measurement Error

Journal Article Political Analysis · April 1, 2020 Experiments should be designed to facilitate the detection of experimental measurement error. To this end, we advocate the implementation of identical experimental protocols employing diverse experimental modes. We suggest iterative nonparametric estimatio ... Full text Cite

Economic Geography, Political Inequality, and Public Goods in the Original 13 U.S. States

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · November 1, 2019 A large and fruitful literature has focused on the impact of colonial legacies on long-term development. Yet the mechanisms through which these legacies get transmitted over time remain ambiguous. This article analyzes the choice and effects of legislative ... Full text Cite

Intra-elite competition and long-run fiscal development

Journal Article Journal of Politics · January 1, 2019 This paper exploits an original database that spans 30-plus developed and developing nations between 1870 and 2010 to perform the first empirical analysis of the relationship between historical levels of intra-elite competition and fiscal development over ... Full text Cite

Barriers to egalitarianism: Distributive tensions in Latin American federations

Journal Article Latin American Research Review · January 1, 2017 Latin America’s largest federations have significantly reduced their levels of income inequality in recent years, perhaps reflecting a structural change toward egalitarianism. However, we argue that the political geography of federalism in Argentina, Brazi ... Full text Cite

Who Gives, Who Gains? Progressivity and Preferences

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · March 1, 2016 The extent to which popular support for the welfare state depends on income varies greatly across nations and policy domains. We argue and show formally that these variations—largely overlooked yet essential to understanding the politics of redistribution— ... Full text Cite

Globalization, public finance, and poverty

Journal Article International Studies Review · December 1, 2015 Global economic forces might impact poverty in any number of direct ways by reducing prices, providing access to larger pools of capital, or creating and destroying jobs. Such forces might also work indirectly, that is, through their effect on labor standa ... Full text Cite

Constrained partisanship and economic outcomes

Chapter · January 1, 2015 The relative autonomy of politics, to use an expression slightly out of fashion, as a determinant of social and economic outcomes is yet again in the eye of the beholder. While some see processes such as globalization, deindustrialization, and more recentl ... Full text Cite

Introduction: The politics of advanced capitalism

Chapter · January 1, 2015 In the concluding chapter of the 1999 volume Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, the then-editors affirmed that the most challenging part of the characterization of contemporary capitalism is to determine “how the cross-sectional patterns of ... Full text Cite

Conclusion: Advanced capitalism in crisis

Chapter · January 1, 2015 We began this project spurred by our skepticism of diagnostics proclaiming the convergence in terms of outcomes and policy among advanced industrial societies, a view only invigorated by the financial crisis that began in the fall of 2007. In this interpre ... Full text Cite

Inequality and Institutions: The Case of Economic Coordination

Journal Article Annual Review of Political Science · May 11, 2014 Full text Cite

Devorar el Futuro

Other El Pais · March 1, 2014 Cite

Partidos, Austeridad, y Consenso

Other El Pais · July 10, 2013 Cite

Federalismo sin Federalistas

Other El Pais · October 29, 2012 Cite

Left Parties, Poor Voters, and Electoral Participation in Advanced Industrial Societies

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · June 1, 2012 Although income inequality is an important normative issue for students of democratic politics, little is known about its effects on citizens' electoral participation. The authors develop a formal model of the incentives for left parties to mobilize lower ... Full text Cite

The Political Geography of Inequality

Book · March 26, 2012 This is a book about redistribution and inequality in political unions, a form of democracy that involves several levels of government and that encompasses about one third of the population living under democracy around the world. ... Cite

The political geography of inequality: Regions and redistribution

Book · January 1, 2012 This book is a study of the politics of redistribution and inequality in political unions. It addresses two questions: why some political systems have more centralized systems of interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political unions make ... Full text Cite

EL Pozo, el Perro y las Pulgas

Other El Pais · May 20, 2010 Cite

Federalism

Chapter · September 2, 2009 This article provides a partial but necessary review of the dominating themes, evolution, and pending tasks that await the comparative politics of federalism. The basic premise of this article is taken from rational choice institution-alism. The article fi ... Full text Cite

Diverse disparities: The politics and economics of wage, market, and disposable income inequalities

Journal Article Political Research Quarterly · January 1, 2009 It is widely thought that among the countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), income inequality has become more widespread over the past decades. The authors show that this image is misleading. The OECD countries remai ... Full text Cite

Democracy, Inequality and Representation

Book · 2008 The gap between the richest and poorest Americans has grown steadily over the last thirty years, and economic inequality is on the rise in many other industrialized democracies as well. But the magnitude and pace of the increase differs dramatically across ... Cite

Federalism

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Inequality and the territorial fragmentation of solidarity

Journal Article International Organization · October 1, 2007 A long tradition, of research has shown decentralized political structures as an important cause behind lower levels of redistribution and higher levels of inequality. This article offers an alternative interpretation of the association between, fragmented ... Full text Cite

Social democracy constrained: Indirect taxation in industrialized democracies

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2007 The determinants of the welfare state have received a great deal of attention in the comparative political economy literature. An analysis of the role that indirect taxation plays in the politics of advanced industrial societies is, however, missing. This ... Full text Cite

Taxing work

Journal Article European Journal of Political Research · January 1, 2006 This article examines the development of tax regimes across OECD countries in the latter part of the twentieth century. It gives particular emphasis to taxes on labour income. Taxes on labour income represent a major drain on private households. They have ... Full text Cite