Format:
xx, 214 pages
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23 cm
ISBN:
9781107065130
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9781107676671
Content:
"Plurality-led Congresses are among the most pervasive and least studied phenomena in presidential systems around the world. Often conflated with divided government, where an organized opposition controls a majority of seats in congress, plurality-led congresses are characterized by a party with fewer than 50 percent of the seats still in control of the legislative gates. Extensive gatekeeping authority without plenary majorities, this book shows, leads to policy outcomes that are substantially different from those observed in majority-led congresses. Through detailed analyses of legislative success in Argentina and Uruguay, this book explores the determinants of law enactment in fragmented congresses. It describes in detail how the lack of majority support explains legislative success in standing committees, the chamber directorate, and the plenary floor"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Plurality parties, plurality cartels, and legislative success; Part I. Plurality Cartels: 2. Party blocs, committee authorities, and plurality cartels; 3. A statistical model of legislators' success and productivity; Part II. Legislator Success and the Sequential Organization of the Legislative Process: 4. Electoral fragmentation and the effective number of legislative blocs; 5. Legislator success and the committee system in Argentina; 6. On the plenary floor: special motions, vanishing quorum, and the amendment of the plenary schedule; 7. Legislative success in the House; Part III. Beyond Plurality Cartels: 8. The determinants of the president's legislative success; 9. Plurality-led congresses with limited gatekeeping authority: the House of Representatives in Uruguay; 10. Concluding remarks: plurality-led congresses as a research agenda.
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Calvo, Ernesto Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014 ISBN 9781139907569
Language:
English
