Research

Publications and selected working and conference papers

Taxation

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2021. Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism: Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2019. “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Path Dependence, Power Resources and the Magnitude of the Tax Burden in Latin America,” in Gustavo Flores-Macías, ed., The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pre-publication version.

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2017. “The Power of Preferences: Economic Elites and Light Taxation in Mexico.” Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 62 (231): 47–76.

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2015. “The Roots of Brazil’s Heavy Taxation.” Journal of Latin American Studies 47 (4): 749–779. Pre-publication version.

Social protest

• Palacios, Indira, and Gabriel Ondetti. 2019. “Student Protest and the Nueva Mayoría Reforms in Chile.” Bulletin of Latin American Research (forthcoming). Pre-publication version.
• Ondetti, Gabriel, José Batista Afonso, and Emmanuel Wambergue. 2015. “From Posseiro to Sem Terra: The Impact of MST Land Struggles in the State of Pará,” in Miguel Carter, ed., Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) and Agrarian Reform in Brazil. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Pre-publication version.
• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2008. Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil. University Park: Penn State University Press.

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2006. “Repression, Opportunity, and Protest: Explaining the Takeoff of Brazil’s Landless Movement.” Latin American Politics & Society 48 (2): 61–94. Pre-publication version.

Land reform and property rights

• Ondetti, Gabriel. Unpublished manuscript. "Diffusion without Implementation: The Social Function of Property in Latin America." Appendix: "Social Function Provisions in Latin American Constitutions, Past and Present."

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2021. "Ideational Bases of Land Reform in Brazil: 1930 to Present," in Lutz Leisering, editor, One Hundred Years of Social Protection: The Changing Social Question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Ondetti, Gabriel, and Benjamin Davy. 2018. “Selective Diffusion: Duguit and the Social Function of Property in Latin America and Europe.” Prepared for the Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Barcelona, Spain. 

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2016. “The Social Function of Property, Land Rights and Social Welfare in Brazil.” Land Use Policy 50 (January): 29–37. Pre-publication version.

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2008. “Up and Down with the Agrarian Question: Issue-Attention and Land Reform in Contemporary Brazil.” Politics & Policy 36 (4): 510–541. Pre-publication version.

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2007. “An Ambivalent Legacy: Cardoso and Land Reform.” Latin American Perspectives 34 (5): 9–25. Pre-publication version.

Other topics

• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2021. "Property Threats, Antistatism and Business Organization in Latin America." Prepared for the conference of the Red de Economia Politica de America Latina (REPAL), Cornell University (virtual).
• Ondetti, Gabriel. 2012. “International Migration and Social Policy Underdevelopment in the Dominican Republic.” Global Social Policy 12 (1): 45–66. Pre-publication version.
• Ondetti, Gabriel, and Sybil Rhodes. 2010. “Courting the South: Lula’s Trade Diplomacy.” UCEMA Working Paper Series No. 430. Buenos Aires: Universidad del CEMA. Pre-publication version.