Legislative Politics In Latin America

Author : Scott Morgenstern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796590
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislative Politics in Latin America written by Scott Morgenstern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Scott Morgenstern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139449700
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Legislative Politics written by Scott Morgenstern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eduardo Alemán
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191083607
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America written by Eduardo Alemán and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harold Eugene Davis
Publisher : New York, Ronald P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government and Politics in Latin America written by Harold Eugene Davis and published by New York, Ronald P. This book was released on 1958 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosendo Adolfo Gomez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government and Politics in Latin America written by Rosendo Adolfo Gomez and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott Morgenstern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511184116
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Legislative Politics written by Scott Morgenstern and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manuel Alcántara
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030515842
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Political Elites in Latin America written by Manuel Alcántara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents in-depth analyses of the data gathered for 26 years by the Political Elites of Latin America project (PELA), the most comprehensive database about the topic in the world. Since 1994, PELA has conducted around 9,000 personal interviews with representative samples of the Legislative Powers of 18 Latin American countries, generating a unique resource for the study of political elites in a comparative perspective. Now, this contributed volume brings together studies that dig into the data gathered by PELA to discuss important topics related to the challenges faced by representative democracy in Latin America. After an introductory chapter that presents the potential of the PELA database, the book is structured in two parts. The first addresses in eight chapters important aspects of representative democracy such as political ambition, political trust, satisfaction with democracy, clientelism and the quality of democracy. It then discusses three relevant issues in Latin American political dynamics such as executive-legislative relations, women's participation as representatives, and the meaning of China and the United States in national politics. The second part addresses in five chapters studies of seven national cases that are representative of regional heterogeneity. These chapters aim to examine parliamentarian elites’ attitudes in different political systems with regard to a variety of relevant issues such as institutional trust, satisfaction with democracy, Executive-Legislative relations, clientelism, and gender questions. Furthermore, these chapters intend to evince the evolution of such attitudes in the course of the last two decades. Politics and Political Elites in Latin America: Challenges and Trends will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics in general and, more particularly, to those interested in the challenges faced by representative democracy not only in Latin America, but in many parts of the world.

Author : Shane Martin
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199653011
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies written by Shane Martin and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past five years, legislative studies have emerged as a field of inquiry in political science. Many political science associations, both national and international, have created standing sections on legislative studies. There has also been a proliferation of literature on legislatures and legislators. This book focuses on legislatures and how they matter, how they have adapted to changes such as globalization and judicialization, and how they have survived the transition to mass democracies.

Author : Weston H. Agor
Publisher : New York : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Legislatures: Their Role and Influence written by Weston H. Agor and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1971 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pablo T. Spiller
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 159782061X
Total Pages : 516 pages
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Download or read book Policymaking in Latin America written by Pablo T. Spiller and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What determines the capacity of countries to design, approve and implement effective public policies? To address this question, this book builds on the results of case studies of political institutions, policymaking processes, and policy outcomes in eight Latin American countries. The result is a volume that benefits from both micro detail on the intricacies of policymaking in individual countries and a broad cross-country interdisciplinary analysis of policymaking processes in the region.