by admin | Oct 15, 2019 | Posts
Mariana Llanos On Sunday 27, October, Argentines go to the polls to elect a new president. Ruling President Mauricio Macri from the centre-right Alliance Cambiemos – now Frente para el Cambio – is seeking reelection, but his chances look shady amid the...
by admin | Sep 16, 2019 | Posts
Christopher A. Martínez Introduction Proposals that seek to do away with presidencialismo are not scarce in Chile. Several scholars, Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela among them, have suggested—even since the mid-1980s—that Chile needs a parliamentary or...
by admin | Aug 1, 2019 | Posts
Aline Burni Scholars have extensively studied the phenomenon of radical right parties. Mainly investigated have been the causes for their emergence and reasons behind their support, but less so the implications they have for democracies and, more specifically,...
by admin | Jul 11, 2019 | Posts
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...
by admin | Jun 17, 2019 | Posts
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...
by admin | Jun 7, 2019 | Posts
Thiago Nascimento da Silva Coalition formation is as common in presidential systems as in parliamentary systems (Deheza, 1998; Cheibub, 2007; Camerlo and Martínez-Gallardo, 2018; Chaisty, Cheeseman, and Power, 2018), and studies comparing parliamentary and...
