Brazil in OECD — What might that effectively imply?

Eugenio Diniz   During Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro’s visit to the US in March, 2019, US President Donald Trump agreed to support Brazil’s access to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In exchange, Brazil would “begin to forgo...

Presidential Leverage in Comparative Politics

Daniel E. Ponder   Political institutions are embedded in context; executive institutions are certainly no exception.  One of the take-aways from my recent book, Presidential Leverage: Presidents, Approval, and the American State, (hereafter, PL) is that scholars...

Checking Presidential Power

Valeria Palanza   We often think of Presidential systems vis à vis Parliamentary systems possibly because the latter have been around longer, and as Cheibub (2007) reminds us, separation of powers systems were an institutional innovation that emerged in the...