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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...
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...
Coalition Dynamics in Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies
Thiago Nascimento da Silva Coalition formation is as common in presidential systems as in parliamentary systems (Deheza, 1998; Cheibub, 2007;...
Apilar las cartas (para que no se caiga). Construcción de coaliciones electorales en Argentina, 1995-2015.
Facundo Cruz Los partidos políticos son organizaciones relativamente estables. Algunos duran más, otros menos, otros demasiado poco y otros...
Checking Presidential Power
Valeria Palanza We often think of Presidential systems vis à vis Parliamentary systems possibly because the latter have been around longer,...
Presidential Hegemony and Democratic Backsliding
Daniela Vairo, Nicolás Schmidt, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán Does the executive’s institutional hegemony represents a threat to the survival of...
The Brazilian presidential model: a historical and structural appraisal
Sérgio Abranches In 1988, I wrote an article analyzing the political model underlying the debate within the Brazilian Constituent Assembly....
The Presidential Cabinets Project
In the last two decades, the study of government formation in presidential systems has evolved substantially to become one of the most vibrant...
Plein pouvoirs au président: how Macron won his Congress majority
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...