Legislative Politics in Latin America by Scott Morgenstern, Benito Nacif

By Scott Morgenstern, Benito Nacif

This theoretically encouraged learn explores legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. rather than starting with an assumption that those legislatures are both rubber-stamps or obstructionist our bodies, the chapters offer new facts and a clean analytical method of describe and clarify the position of those consultant our bodies in those consolidating democracies. for every state the ebook presents 3 chapters committed, in flip, to executive-legislative family, the legislatures' organizational constitution, and the coverage strategy.

Show description

Read Online or Download Legislative Politics in Latin America PDF

Best caribbean & latin american books

A Companion to Latin American Literature (Monografías A)

A better half to Latin American Literature deals a full of life and informative creation to the main major literary works produced in Latin the United States from the 15th century until eventually the current day. It indicates how the click, and its product the published be aware, functioned because the universal denominator binding jointly, in numerous methods through the years, the advanced and variable courting among the author, the reader and the country.

Strangers Among Us

In 1868 American explorer Charles Francis corridor interviewed a number of Inuit hunters who referred to strangers vacationing via their land. corridor instantly jumped to the belief that the hunters have been conversing approximately survivors of the Franklin excursion and trigger for the Melville Peninsula, the site of a number of the sightings, to assemble additional tales and facts to aid his supposition.

Adam in Eden

During this comedian novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a revered businessman in Mexico, has a existence so excellent that he may perhaps besides be his namesake within the backyard of Eden--but there are snakes during this Eden too. For something, Adam's spouse Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of nationwide security--also named Adam--who makes use of violence opposed to token sufferers to conceal the truth that he is letting drug runners, murderers, and kidnappers cross loose.

Additional resources for Legislative Politics in Latin America

Example text

Congress. For example, he explains how parliamentary rules in Mexico limit the ability of legislators to suggest amendments. In addition, he describes two interesting controversies about the budget stemming from obscurity in the constitution. , the amount that would be spent in the absence of a budget), but it also leaves as dubious the president’s ability to veto the budget legislation, since the budget bill is technically not a law (since it does not go through the Senate). Assumptions and/or Independent Variables: Goals, Strategies, Parties, and Power A second broad goal of this book is to move toward a general model of legislative politics and test the impact of several variables on legislative politics.

O’Donnell’s (1993) oft-cited and influential paper purports that Latin American democracies are a “new species,” characterized by presidents who view courts and legislatures as “nuisances,” not a vital part of a democratic polity. 5 The very useful contribution (and the rest of their collection) by Mainwaring and Shugart (1997) is a partial exception in that they take the president’s legislative support into account in explaining the variation in presidential systems. Still, in focusing on the presidents’ legislative powers, they have left aside a full analysis of the legislature itself.

To assign the positions, unless there is only one, they are distributed in proportion to the votes obtained by the sublists. With this system, intraparty competition is resolved in the interparty electoral arena. Saiegh (1997a). 28 President and Congress in Argentina versus regional influences when voting. Fourth, when presidents for whatever reason deviate from the main course of their policies, they at least face vocal opposition by party loyalists. Thus, ideological divides are a final reason why we would expect legislators to oppose a president’s policy initiatives.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.39 of 5 – based on 33 votes