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Aline Burni   Scholars have extensively studied the phenomenon of radical right parties. Mainly investigated have been the causes for their...

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...

Daniel E. Ponder   Political institutions are embedded in context; executive institutions are certainly no exception.  One of the take-aways...

Thiago Nascimento da Silva   Coalition formation is as common in presidential systems as in parliamentary systems (Deheza, 1998; Cheibub, 2007;...

Facundo Cruz   Los partidos políticos son organizaciones relativamente estables. Algunos duran más, otros menos, otros demasiado poco y otros...

Valeria Palanza   We often think of Presidential systems vis à vis Parliamentary systems possibly because the latter have been around longer,...

Daniela Vairo, Nicolás Schmidt, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán   Does the executive’s institutional hegemony represents a threat to the survival of...

Sérgio Abranches   In 1988, I wrote an article analyzing the political model underlying the debate within the Brazilian Constituent Assembly....

In the last two decades, the study of government formation in presidential systems has evolved substantially to become one of the most vibrant...