Party switching by legislators has been common in many countries, including the
Philippines, Italy, Nepal, Ecuador, Russia, and Japan. While frequently dismissed as simply …

Tous les gouvernements formés au Brésil entre 1985 et 1998 comprennent des politiciens
d'au moins deux partis. Tous pourraient être définis comme étant de coalition. Cet article …

Analyses of formal governmental institutions and electoral laws have considerably
advanced our understanding of how politics works in Latin America. However, these …

O Brasil é um bom ponto de partida para o exame dessa questão. Existe um debate na
literatura comparativa sobre o presidencialismo a respeito de que padrão de formação de …

The growing literature on personal vote assumes that candidates with strong local ties
should be more successful electorally and more likely to break party unity in parliament …

The essays in this book analyze and explain the crisis of democratic representation in five
Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In this region …

INTRODUCTION recent wave of research has been investigating the structure of veto and
proposal power within democratic assemblies, in order to derive testable implications about …

By focusing on parliamentary systems, this article presents an argument that legislators who
have strong local ties and individual support bases are more likely to be individualistic and …

Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth
century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent …

I argue that political parties oriented towards particularistic goods affect coalition
government in presidential systems. Particularistic parties hire out their support on some …