This article examines the effect of gender on legislators' attitudes and bill initiation behavior
in three Latin American countries—Argentina, Colombia, and Costa Rica. I argue that sex …

We present a new data set on the left-right placement of major Brazilian political parties
serving in the first five legislatures under democracy. On the basis of survey responses of …

How does democratic politics inform the interdisciplinary debate on the evolution of human
co-operation and the social preferences (for example, trust, altruism and reciprocity) that …

Presidential systems present a unique possibility for spatial competition between elected
political agents, since presidents may represent different policy positions than the parties to …

▪ Abstract With a focus on Latin America, this literature review considers the extent to which
electoral systems affect different aspects of parties and party systems. We find that standard …

This article investigates the causes of party system hyperfragmentation in Brazil. We ask why
hyperfragmentation—understood as extreme multipartism that continues to fractionalize …

While political polarization may lead to gridlock and other negative policy outcomes,
representation is likely to be enhanced when parties differentiate themselves from each …

In this paper I show that voting patterns of Brazilian legislators depart from their ideology in
ways that suggest that the president plays an important role in influencing their behavior …

In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed
unevenly in Latin America. Some countries have experienced large increases in gender …