Daniel Alberto Cravacuore
@unq.edu.ar
Territorial Development Center/Department of Economy and Administration
National University of Quilmes
Director of the Territorial Development Center of the National University of Quilmes (Argentina). He has been Distinguished Senior Research Scholar, of the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University, (FL, USA). He has been visiting professor at universities in Chile, Colombia and Spain. Professor of masters and doctorates. He has published 12 books, 43 book chapters and 22 articles in his specialty, Latin American local governments. Project director, consultant, facilitator and trainer for international organizations (AECID, IDB, UCLG, UNICEF, UNDP, ICMA, IDRC, ILO, European Union), national, provincial and municipal. Former Editor of the Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Municipales, a mainstream journal, indexed by WOS and SciELO. President of the International Foundation for Local Development (FINDEL).
EDUCATION
PhD - University of Jaén (Spain)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Local Goverment / Federalism
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Scopus Publications
Daniel Alberto Cravacuore
Emerald Publishing Limited
This chapter has four parts. The first section addresses the legal analysis of the Argentine local governments' autonomous regime, considering its provinces and municipalities, and the second section analyzes the portfolio of policies – nationals, provincials, locals – to attend the emergency of COVID-19, which show that the Federal State was dedicated to the overall strategy: sustaining the income of citizens, businesses, and subnational governments; and the purchase and distribution of health equipment and supplies, while the attention of COVID-19 cases fell to the provinces and municipalities. The third section analyzes the coordination mechanisms during the pandemic mainly based more on presidential leadership with the support of governors and mayors than on institutional mechanisms. Finally, the role of the political agency especially as for the main interjurisdictional conflicts that took place in 2020 and 2021 once the authorities dimensioned the pandemic scope as well as the Kirchnerism/anti-Kirchnerism cleavage that characterizes Argentine politics since 2008.
Edgar E. Ramírez de la Cruz, Eduardo José Grin, Pablo Sanabria‐Pulido, Daniel Cravacuore, and Arturo Orellana
Wiley
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic has created a crisis that is challenging national and local governments to innovate in their responses to novel problems. Despite similarities to the challenges confronted in developed countries, for Latin American governments, these problems are amplified by structural obstacles such as social inequalities. These countries must respond with capacities and resources that are often limited by spoils systems and by social and political polarization. This essay provides an overview of some innovative practices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. In particular, this essay concentrates on some salient collaborative efforts in the region. To draw lessons from these practices, the authors focus on the formal and informal institutions that facilitate or obstruct collaboration across jurisdictions. The findings are discussed in terms of the transaction costs of collaboration identified in these experiences.