Federalism and inequality: A long-debated relationship with few empirical tests

Lucas González

Lucas González holds a PhD in political science at the University of Notre Dame. He also holds an MA in Political Science (Notre Dame), an MSc in Latin American Studies (University of Oxford), and an MA in Public Policy (Georgetown University-UNSAM). He is researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the Universidad Católica Argentina, and professor in the School of Politics and Government at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. He was a postdoctoral visiting fellow at Brown University and a visiting professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; the Australian National University, Australia, the Fundação Getúlio Vargas and the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ), Brazil; Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, among others. He published his book with Routledge, coauthored two other books and written articles, the last ones published in The Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Latin American Research Review, Latin American Politics and Society, among others. His current research interests are related to the political economy of redistribution in federal cases, subnational state capacity and inequality, and economic concentration in oil and mining subnational units.