by admin | Dec 20, 2018 | Brazilian Presidential Transition
Appointments to positions in the Brazilian executive branch are directly related to choices about how to build and manage coalitions in multiparty presidential governments. These positions allow for a degree of discretion as to who will occupy them, so they are used...
by admin | Dec 6, 2018 | Brazilian Presidential Transition
En el 28 de octubre de 2018 Brazil escogió a su nuevo presidente. Las elecciones fueron marcadas por un clima de grande polarización entre la extrema derecha y la izquierda y el resultado de las urnas dio la victoria al candidato del Partido Social Liberal (PSL), Jair...
by admin | Aug 16, 2018 | Posts
In the last two decades, the study of government formation in presidential systems has evolved substantially to become one of the most vibrant research agendas in the study of presidentialism. Skepticism about the sustainability of presidential institutions gave way...
by admin | Nov 28, 2017 | Research
Research Questions The goal of this project is to analyze the development of the institutional Presidency (IP) in Latin America after the processes of re-democratization in the 1980s. The institutional Presidency (Moe 1993; 1994), also known as the core executive...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Posts
France went to the polls last Sunday, June 18th, to vote for the second round of the legislative elections. Following a recurrent practice under the logic of the V Republic, in which institutions have been designed to favor a strong President over the Assembly, the...
