Making Brazil work : checking the president in a multiparty system / Marcus André Melo and Carlos Pereira.
Common wisdom has it that when presidential political systems coincide with multiparty systems the result is gridlock; parties squabble and presidents are not able to stitch together the majorities they need to move forward with the business of governing. Yet, recent experiences in Latin America sug...
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Studies of the Americas.
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| Summary: | Common wisdom has it that when presidential political systems coincide with multiparty systems the result is gridlock; parties squabble and presidents are not able to stitch together the majorities they need to move forward with the business of governing. Yet, recent experiences in Latin America suggest otherwise. In roughly the last decade, multiparty presidentialism has emerged as a model form of presidential democracy. Using Brazil as a case study and situating Brazil within a broad comparative context, this book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise as the world's six largest economy. Considering key institutional features at federal and sub-national levels, the authors argue that Brazilþs success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances that emerges from healthy political competition and power alternation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137310842 1137310847 9781349456741 1349456748 9781137310835 1137310839 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |