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Legislator success in fragmented congresses in Argentina : plurality cartels, minority presidents, and lawmaking /
"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 wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Plurality parties, plurality cartels, and legislative success; Part I. Plurality Cartels and Legislative Success: 2. Party blocs, committee authorities, and plurality cartels: the Argentine Congress as an institution driven by consent; 3. A statistical model of legislative success; Part II. Legislative Success and the Sequential Organization of the Legislative Process: 4. Electoral institutions and legislative fragmentation in Argentina: an overview; 5. Legislator success and the committee system in the Argentine House; 6. On the plenary floor: special motions, vanishing quorum, and the amendment of the plenary schedule; 7. Legislative success and legislative productivity in a divided congress; 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.