by admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Posts
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...
by admin | Feb 18, 2019 | Posts
Daniela Vairo, Nicolás Schmidt, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán Does the executive’s institutional hegemony represents a threat to the survival of democracy? We seek to answer this question in a recently published online article that is part of a broader academic...
by admin | Feb 5, 2019 | Brazilian Presidential Transition
Daniela Rezende and Mariana Cockles The process of cabinet formation under the Bolsonaro administration generated many uncertainties due to the then-candidate’s assertion that, if elected, he would not replicate old political practices, such as the allocation...
by admin | Jan 28, 2019 | Posts
Sérgio Abranches In 1988, I wrote an article analyzing the political model underlying the debate within the Brazilian Constituent Assembly. Brazil was about to have a new Constitution, and constituents were on the verge of adopting a modified version of the...
by admin | Jan 22, 2019 | Brazilian Presidential Transition
Coalition presidentialism is defined as a multiparty system in which the president faces big challenges to govern due to the high party fragmentation that makes the formation of a majority in Congress more difficult. So, she/he forms a coalition for her/his own...
