Publications

RESEARCH ARTICLES (selection) 

Neudörfer, P.; Valdivieso, P. (2025) Social capital as a policy catalyst: Enhancing municipal investment in climate risk reduction and adaptation, Global Environmental Change, 94, 103041 

Andersson, KP; Cook, N.; Trautmann, M.; Valdivieso, P. (2025) Inequality and its Strain on Local Governments:Can External Interventions Help?, World Development, 188, 106855.  Supplementary Materials and Replication Data 

Valdivieso, P.; Neudorfer, P.; Andersson, K.P. (2022) Causes and Consequences of Local Government Efforts to Reduce Risk and Adapt to Extreme Weather Events: Municipal Organizational Robustness. In: Tyfield, D.; Willis, R.; Yuille, A. Bringing Governance Back Home—Lessons for Local Government regarding Rapid Climate Action.  Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. 

Valdivieso, P. (2022) The modernization of Chilean justice, security (in Spanish). Gerstenberger, D.; Goebel, M.; König, H. J.; Rinke, S. (editors). Vol. 19. Darmstadt, Germany:  Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft wbg. https://files.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/Files/Article/ARTK_ZOA_1029174_0001.pdf

Valdivieso, P.; Neudorfer, P.; Andersson, K.P. (2021) Causes and Consequences of Local Government Efforts to Reduce Risk and Adapt to Extreme Weather Events: Municipal Organizational Robustness. Sustainability , 13, 7980. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147980  

Valdivieso, P. (2019) Análisis institucional de la gobernanza de la reducción de riesgos de desastres en la escala local. Análisis con municipios chilenos.  Cuervo, L.; Délano, M (Eds.) Planificación multiescalar, regional y local. Volumen I. CEPAL/United Nations, pp. 233-255 (In Spanish), https://www.cepal.org/es/publicaciones/44845-planificacion-multiescalar-regional-local-volumen-i

Andersson, K.P.; Valdivieso, P. (2018) Why local governments matter: Adapting to a changing climate in Chile. In ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America; Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, USA, 2018; Volume 27, pp. 67–72 (in Spanish), https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/why-local-governments-matter

Valdivieso, P.; Andersson, K.P. (2018) What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile. Sustainability 2018, 10(10), 3808, https://doi.org/10.3390/su10103808

Valdivieso, P.; Andersson, K. P.,Villena-Roldán, B. (2017) Institutional drivers of adaptation in local government decision-making: evidence from Chile. Climatic Change 143:157–171, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-017-1961-9

Valdivieso, P.;Andersson, K. P. (2017) Local politics of environmental disaster risk manage- ment: Institutional analysis and lessons from Chile. The Journal of Environment & Development.26: 51-81, https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496516685369

Valdivieso, P. (2017) Institutional and social enablers for governance of environmental risks at the local scale. Analysis with Chilean municipalities (in Spanish). OPINIÃO PÚBLICA 23: 538-73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-01912017233538

Valdivieso, P. (2016) Municipal governance, environmental management and disaster risk reduction in Chile. Bulletin of Latin American Research 36:440-458, https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12595

Valdivieso P.; Davidovics, G. (2016) Frameworks and methodologies for empirical research on social capital (in Spanish). Colección Gobierno y Asuntos Públicos. Santiago: Ril Editores, ISBN 978-956-010369-7

Valdivieso P., Villena-Roldán, B. (2014) Opening the Black Box of Social Capital Formation. American Political Science Review 108: 121-143, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055413000658

Valdivieso, P.; Bernas, J. (2014) Difficulties of the approximation of transparency as a command and control policy: Chilean experience with municipalities. Revista CLAD Reforma y Democracia 58: 201–234, http://old.clad.org/portal/publicaciones-del-clad/revista-clad-reforma-democracia/articulos/058-Febrero-2014/Valdivieso.pdf

Valdivieso P.; Vallejos, A. (2014) First order political interventions: the case of Chilean transparency policy (in Spanish). Cad. CRH 27: 313-328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-49792014000200007

Vallejos-Romero, A.;  Valdivieso, P. (2014) Towards second-order public policies in Latin America Andamios (in Spanish). Andamios Revista de Investigación Social, 11: 323-352. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=62841544012

Triossi, M.; Valdivieso, P.; Villena-Roldan, B. (2013) A Spatial Model of Voting with Endogenous Proposals: Theory and Evidence from the Chilean Senate. Center for Applied Economics Working Paper 294. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2255835 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2255835 

Valdivieso P. (2012), Policies for Participation, Life in Association and Confidence, Implications in the Case of Chile. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 31: 336-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2012.00698.x 

Valdivieso, P.; Villena-Roldan, B. (2012) Participation in Organizations, Trust, and Social Capital Formation: Evidence from Chile. University of Chile Center for Applied Economics Working Paper No. 293. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2255997 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2255997