Carla Alberti

Investigadora adjunta VioDemos. Profesora asistente del Instituto de Ciencia Política de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, investigadora del Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos, investigadora principal del Fondecyt Regular «Local Crime and Electoral Politics: Assesing the Impact on Incumbent and Challengers» y co-investigadora del proyecto Fondecyt Regular “Women in Local Politics: Spending Patterns, Policy Outcomes, and Citizen Evaluation”.

Cientista política de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Doctora en Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Brown.

Su área de investigación es la política étnica y movimientos indígenas en América Latina, con especial énfasis en Bolivia, Ecuador y Chile. Además, estudia la relación entre fenómenos políticos y crimen en América Latina.

Linea de investigación
Violencia Criminal e Inseguridad Urbana, Violencia Política, Étnica y Radicalización
Contacto
caalbert@uc.cl
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Publicaciones Relacionadas

State Responses to Autonomy Demands: Indigenous Movements and Regional Threats in Bolivia and Ecuador

Journal of Politics in Latin America

In this paper, we examine the political factors that explain state responses to demands for indigenous territorial autonomy in Ecuador and Bolivia. Specifically, we aim to explain why the 2009 Bolivian constitution limited indigenous territorial autonomy to the departmental level, not allowing indigenous peoples to establish autonomous regions that lay beyond a single departmental jurisdiction, whereas the 2008 Ecuadorian constitution allows indigenous jurisdictions to exceed provincial boundaries.

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Do Fiscal Transfers Affect Local Democracy? Lessons from Chilean Municipalities

Latin American Politics and Society

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.

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The long memory of the land: Pre-colonial origins of Mapuche mobilization in Chile

Political Geography

We aim to explain the long-term territorial patterns of conflict across Mapuche communities in southern Chile. The Mapuche indigenous people have resisted external invasions by colonial settlers and the Chilean state for about five centuries. However, not all Mapuche communities have mobilized for their demands. While conflict between communities and external invaders has been a historical constant in certain areas, in others, Mapuche communities have remained largely passive. We explain subnational patterns of Mapuche mobilization by identifying path-dependent sequences –that range between conflictive and passive– that trace back to the social complexity of pre-colonial societies.

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Indigenous autonomy and Latin American state security in contexts of criminal violence: the cases of Cauca in Colombia and Guerrero in Mexico

Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies

In this research note, we examine the Cauca region of southwestern Colombia and the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. We suggest that state security motives may help explain variation in outcomes between these two cases and that more attention needs to be paid to Indigenous autonomy in the context of narco wars and criminal violence.

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Fiscal Origins of Subnational Democracy: Evidence from Argentina

Politics & Society

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.

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Can political alignment reduce crime? Evidence from Chile

Political Science Research and Methods

This article drawing on rich administrative data from Chile and a regression discontinuity design in close electoral races, we study the impact of alignment on a broad set of crimes against the person and property-related. We show that aligned municipalities experience a significant reduction in crimes that both affect property and occur in public. As a potential mechanism, we find that aligned municipalities receive more projects to improve urban infrastructure, thus making public spaces less vulnerable to crime.

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