Format:
Online-Ressource (236 p)
ISBN:
9781139907569
Content:
Through detailed analyses of legislative success in Argentina and Uruguay, this book explores the determinants of law enactment in fragmented congresses
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half-title; Titlepage; Copyright information; Dedication; Table ofcontents; List offigures; List oftables; Preface; 1 Plurality parties, plurality cartels, and legislative success; Plurality parties vs. plurality cartels; The legislative success of MCs as a research agenda; Why do legislators legislate?; What can we learn from analyzing the Argentine and Uruguayan congresses?; The cost of dissent: the argument of this book; The road to legislative success; The omnibus vote, simple-majority, and super-majority legislative strategies
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The determinants of legislative success and the preferences of legislatorsThe policy weight of MCs; Outline of the book; Part I Plurality cartels and legislative success; 2 Party blocs, committee authorities, and plurality cartels: the Argentine Congress as an institution driven by consent; The sequential organization of House activities: an introduction; The pre-floor bloc (party) meeting and the Chamber Directorate; On the strategic use of quorum by the minority; On the use of different restrictive rules in the plenary; On the use of restrictive amendment rules during debate
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Omnibus votes (Article 152) and the gains from the exchange model of legislative successMajority control and the restrictive use of plenary time; Majority cartels and legislative success: when unanimous consent is lost; Revisiting the procedural cartel model; The loss of majority control: quorum, motions, and the plurality party; Delegating the ""vanishing quorum""decision to party leaders; Concluding remarks; 3 A statistical model of legislative success; What can we know?; A statistical model of legislative success in majority- and plurality-led congresses
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Multilevel statistical models and the importance of contextual explanatory variablesConcluding remarks; Part II Legislative success and the sequential organization of the legislative process; 4 Electoral institutions and legislative fragmentation in Argentina: an overview; Elections and the survival of politicians; Nested electoral arenas in state and nation; The election of the president; The election of deputies; The election of senators; Parties in politics: Peronists and Radicals; The fragmentation of the party system; The party system seen from congress; The partisan context in congress
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Concluding remarks5 Legislator success and the committee system in the Argentine House; Committees and the allocation of authority posts in the Argentine House; Explaining success in committee in the Argentine Congress; Measuring success in committee; The determinants of legislative success; The distribution of preferences in committees; Legislator-specific control variables; Bill-dependent control variables; Estimates of legislative success in committee; Concluding remarks; Appendix 5.A: Committee centrality and bill referrals
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Appendix 5.B: Estimation of House members´ ideal points using co-sponsorship data
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139911412
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107065130
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Calvo, Ernesto Legislator success in fragmented congresses in Argentina Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014 ISBN 9781107065130
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107676671
Language:
English
Keywords:
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