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Author : Manuel Alcántara Sáez
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0892063645
Author : Eduardo Alemán,George Tsebelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191083594
In this volume, twelve experts on Latin American politics investigate the ways in which the interaction between legislative institutions and the policy positions of key actors affects the initiation and passage of legislation, covering seven Latin American Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. These seven presidential systems vary widely in terms of their legislative institutions and the position of relevant actors. The introduction provides a framework to understand the interaction of legislative majorities, political institutions, and policy position, and each chapter begins with a description of the constitutional and congressional rules that allocate powers to propose, amend, and veto legislation. The authors then identify the political actors who have these prerogatives and apply the framework to show how their policy positions and relative strengths influence legislative decision-making. The findings are consistent with the basic argument of the book that presidents with extensive legislative powers may be constrained by the positions of their legislative allies, whereas weaker presidents may be well-positioned to build successful coalitions to achieve their legislative goals. The essays in this volume demonstrate that institutional design, which determines the allocation of legislative powers, must be considered along with the policy preferences of key legislative actors in order to construct a full picture of law-making. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Author : Weston H. Agor
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172016715559
Author : Scott Morgenstern,Benito Nacif
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521796598
This theoretically inspired study explores legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Instead of beginning with an assumption that these legislatures are either rubber-stamps or obstructionist bodies, the chapters provide new data and a fresh analytical approach to describe and explain the role of these representative bodies in these consolidating democracies. For each country the book provides three chapters dedicated, in turn, to executive-legislative relations, the legislatures' organizational structure, and the policy process.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164629669
Author : Scott Morgenstern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139449702
Using the United States as a basis of comparison, this book makes extensive use of roll call data to explore patterns of legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. It distinguishes among parties, factions, coalitions and delegations based on the extent to which they are unified in their voting and/or willing to form policy coalitions with other legislative 'agents'. It discusses the voting unity and ballot systems that allow voters to identify an agent, and describes the degree to which those agents have been flexible with regards to the formation of policy coalitions. It also shows that the US parties have exhibited higher levels of unity but less flexibility in recent years, and thus contrast the prevailing pattern in Latin America. The book focuses its explanation for the patterns on the role of candidate nominations, other aspects of the electoral system and the legislators' ideological alignments.
Author : Robert E. Beasley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112047567794
Author : David Close
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555874754
An examination of the role of the legislature in the politics of democratic construction and consolidation in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay. Various contributors combine to show each nation's progress towards open, competitive, tolerant politics.
Author : Peverill Squire
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132331
The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900 provides a comprehensive analysis of the role constituent instructions played in American politics for more than a hundred years after its founding. Constituent instructions were more widely issued than previously thought, and members of state legislatures and Congress were more likely to obey them than political scientists and historians have assumed. Peverill Squire expands our understanding of constituent instructions beyond a handful of high-profile cases, through analyses of two unique data sets: one examining more than 5,000 actionable communications (instructions and requests) sent to state legislators by constituents through town meetings, mass meetings, and local representative bodies; the other examines more than 6,600 actionable communications directed by state legislatures to their state’s congressional delegations. He draws the data, examples, and quotes almost entirely from original sources, including government documents such as legislative journals, session laws, town and county records, and newspaper stories, as well as diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources. Squire also includes instructions to and from Confederate state legislatures in both data sets. In every respect, the Confederate state legislatures mirrored the legislatures that preceded and followed them.
Author : Peverill Squire
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472118311
Squire offers a comprehensive history of legislatures, core institutions in American political development
Author : Tiffany Barnes,Yann Kerevel,Gregory W. Saxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Working class
ISBN : 1009349805
Latin American legislators, like legislators worldwide, are drawn from a narrow set of elites who are largely out of touch with average citizens. Despite comprising the vast majority of the labor force, working-class people represent a small slice of the legislature. Working Class Inclusion examines how the near exclusion of working-class citizens from legislatures affects citizens' evaluations of government. Combining surveys from across Latin America with novel data on legislators' class backgrounds and experiments from Argentina and Mexico, the book demonstrates voters want more workers in office, and when combined with policy representation, the presence of working-class legislators improves citizens' evaluations of government. Absent policy representation, however, workers are met with distrust and backlash. Chapters show citizens have many opportunities to learn about the presence, or absence, of workers; and the relationship between working-class representation and evaluations of government is strongest among citizens who are aware of legislators' class status.
Author : Scott Mainwaring,Matthew Soberg Shugart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521576148
Addressing the current debate regarding the liabilities and merits of presidential government, this work asks: does presidentialism make it less likely that democratic governments will be able to manage political conflict, as many prominent scholars have argued? With the unprecedented wave of transitions to democracy since the 1970s, this question has been hotly contested in political and intellectual circles all over the globe. The contributors to this volume examine variations among different presidential systems and sceptically view claims that presidentialism has added significantly to the problems of democratic governance and stability. The contributors argue that presidential systems vary in important ways, mostly according to the constitutional powers accorded to the president to affect legislation and the degree to which presidents parties control legislative majorities.
Author : David Arter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317998167
Recent years have witnessed substantial work in the legislative studies field. But what do we know about legislatures today and are there clear criteria for comparing and classifying them? This is a new review of the state of our knowledge of parliament and tackles key questions: Do legislatures matter in legislative terms, and, if so, how much? What is the extent of the legislature’s control of the legislative process. How can we classify legislatures on the basis of their relative legislative performance. Five measures of the policy power of parliaments are applied in the country/region chapters. This book was previously published as a special issue of the leading Journal of Legislative Studies.
Author : Carol Mershon,Olga Shvetsova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107244283
In this book, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova explore one of the central questions in democratic politics: how much autonomy do elected politicians have to shape and reshape the party system on their own, without the direct involvement of voters in elections? Mershon and Shvetsova's theory focuses on the choices of party membership made by legislators while serving in office. It identifies the inducements and impediments to legislators' changes of partisan affiliation, and integrates strategic and institutional approaches to the study of parties and party systems. With empirical analyses comparing nine countries that differ in electoral laws, territorial governance and executive-legislative relations, Mershon and Shvetsova find that strategic incumbents have the capacity to reconfigure the party system as established in elections. Representatives are motivated to bring about change by opportunities arising during the parliamentary term, and are deterred from doing so by the elemental democratic practice of elections.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:0018387021A
