Valeria Palanza (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)

Checking Presidential Power

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first to offer an explanation of the levels of reliance on executive decrees in comparative perspective, this book intends to reach an audience of scholars and non-academics interested in the behavior of legislators, the struggles behind the concentration of power by presidents, and Latin American politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781108446631
• ISBN-10: 1108446639
• Artikelnr.: 63460974

Autorenporträt

Valeria Palanza is Assistant Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Políticas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research interests focus on issues of democracy, institutional arrangements, and the legislative process. Her most recent publications appear in Comparative Political Studies, Revista de Ciencia Política, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: a choice of paths behind each policy
2. Decrees versus statutes: choice of legislative paths in separation of powers systems
3. Institutions and institutional commitment
4. Reinstatement of congressional decision rights: Brazil
5. A corollary of low levels of institutional commitment: Argentina
6. The choice of legislative paths in comparative perspective
7. Conclusions: rules, institutional commitment, and checks on presidents.